You will be amazed at how much your child is able to learn at the Sorensen School. Most of Mrs Sorensen's preschool students will be reading by Christmas time. All her preschool students are able to write a letter to their grandparents for Valentine's Day. By the end of kindergarten, many children begin reading "chapter books". Attending the Sorensen School assure your children a great start to their education and puts them at the top of their class, and affords them the ability to stay there.
The Report of the Commission on Reading from the book Becoming a Nation of Readers states that:
“Classroom research shows that, on the average, children who are taught phonics get off to a better start in learning to read than children who are not taught phonics. Children in programs in which phonics gets a heavy stress also do better on tests of sentence and story comprehension, particularly in the early grades.”
“Writing is important in its own right. Because of the interrelatedness of language, learning to write also aids in reading development. For many young children, the desire to communicate provides an incentive for using written language. In an investigation of children who read before they entered first grade, the parents described these children as “paper-and-pencil kids”. For some, in fact, learning to read was a byproduct of interest in writing.”
“Reading primers should be interesting, comprehensible, and give children opportunities to apply phonics. There should be a close interplay between phonics instruction and reading words in meaningful selections. But most primers contain too few words that can be identified using the phonics that has already been taught. After the very earliest selections, primers should tell complete, interesting stories.”
“In the judgment of the Commission, isolating the sounds associated with most letters and teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together to try to identify words are useful instructional strategies. There are the strategies of explicit phonics.”
“The Commission believes the right maxims for phonics are: Do it early. Keep in simple. Except in cases of diagnoses individual need, phonics instruction should have been completed by the end of the second grade.”
“Parents play roles of inestimable importance in laying the foundation for learning to read. Parents should informally teach preschool children about reading and writing by reading aloud to them, discussing stories and events, encouraging them to learn letters and words and teaching them about the world around them. These practices help prepare children for success in reading.”
“Parents have an obligation to support their children’s continued growth as readers. In addition to laying a foundation, parents need to facilitate the growth of their children’s reading by taking them to libraries, encouraging reading as a free time activity, and supporting homework
“There is reason to believe that instructional materials and quality of teaching in the early grades can significantly influence higher level achievement at high school and college.” J.S.Chall.
“All three of my children attended Mrs. Sorensen’s school and they all read 2 or more levels above their grade, and it is all Nancy. I am so grateful we found her, she has made all the difference in their education.” |
“ I have 7 children and have a lot of experience with teachers and have never known a teacher as talented as Mrs. Sorensen. She teaches them the proper way to read and write. Your children learn more than you would even expect!” --Kris Aviano Springville, UT "I have yet to find any other school that offers such a sound and effective foundation for a love of reading, writing, and spelling. I am grateful for this school and its impact on my son's education." --Melanie |
