Stride Ahead
Stride Ahead is the natural ‘next step’ from Toe By Toe. Toe By Toe teaches ‘decoding’ skills. This enables students to read more fluently with good pronunciation. However, many still need help in making sense of the written word. This is where Stride Ahead helps.
Many students reach a ‘reading plateau’. They have good reading skills, but still face problems in understanding text content and extracting meaningful information from it. This has consequences for a student across all subjects in test and examination situations. For maturer students, it can also impact on their ability to do their job competently and effectively.
BUSY MINDS
Author Keda Cowling believes that this inability to extract meaning from a text results from their minds being too ‘busy.’ That is, they think too much about the mechanics of decoding the written language. This results in them being unable to give adequate time and attention to the meaning in a text. A further consequence is that they become stressed in time-limited situations (like tests, exams or work-related situations) and so fail to perform to the best of their ability.
Stride Ahead offers a solution to this problem. The manual uses ‘timed exercises’ to sharpen and focus student’s reading and comprehension skills. ‘Timed exercises’ help ‘accelerate’ a student’s ability to more quickly process the information contained in a text. The exercises also help students and to extract meaning from text more rapidly.
ISBN 9780954109509
Many students reach a ‘reading plateau’. They have good reading skills, but still face problems in understanding text content and extracting meaningful information from it. This has consequences for a student across all subjects in test and examination situations. For maturer students, it can also impact on their ability to do their job competently and effectively.
BUSY MINDS
Author Keda Cowling believes that this inability to extract meaning from a text results from their minds being too ‘busy.’ That is, they think too much about the mechanics of decoding the written language. This results in them being unable to give adequate time and attention to the meaning in a text. A further consequence is that they become stressed in time-limited situations (like tests, exams or work-related situations) and so fail to perform to the best of their ability.
Stride Ahead offers a solution to this problem. The manual uses ‘timed exercises’ to sharpen and focus student’s reading and comprehension skills. ‘Timed exercises’ help ‘accelerate’ a student’s ability to more quickly process the information contained in a text. The exercises also help students and to extract meaning from text more rapidly.
ISBN 9780954109509
Information
Stride Ahead suits learners who:
- can read fluently and with good pronunciation, but still have difficulty understanding and making sense of what they read
- are experiencing consequences of their comprehension struggles in other subject areas or in test environments.
Stride Ahead uses timed exercises to sharpen and focus reading and comprehension skills. These timed exercises help learners to:
- accelerate their ability to better process the information in texts
- extract meaning from texts more rapidly
- devote more attention to the meaning in a text
- build confidence in time-pressured environments.
Reviews
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★★★★★Outstanding resource for rescuing readingI used this resouce for 14 years at a tertiary education training institution. Data collected over that time demonstrated time and again its effectiveness with poor readers. Easy to use, comprehensive and extremely well structured, I unreservedly recommend it.
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