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Happy Halloween to all! We would like to wish everyone a fun and safe halloween this year.
 With Halloween so close, this means it is the end of the month. Our October sale of our new product Growing and Maintaining Brains Everyday will no longer be on sale in November. Get it now for a low price! PyramidofPotential.com/products-for-parents If you are looking forward to the next session of the Brain Advancement Coaching opportunity, take advantage of our Early Bird Special! Sign up by December 1st and save over $100! Sign up by December 15th and save over $50! This type of training can help many people. We would like acknowledge many groups of people who work in similar lines of work as us. These people include, Homeschoolers, teachers, Special Education experts, occupational therapists, speech and language pathologist and psychologists. All of these people are doing great work. Here at Pyramid of Potential, we would like to let these people know that what they do is very important and that we would like to help them to help others. Our training could be what you are looking for. We will start the next session in a couple of months. We have added a Brain Advancement Coaching section to the newsletter. Take a look at it and take a look at our website: BrainAdvancementTeam.com
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Growing Brains Everyday Workbook with Maintaining Brains Everyday DVD
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We are adding Maintaining Brains Everyday to our Growing Brains Everyday and dropping the price so you can save money and receive a better product.
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Offer Expires 10/31/2014.
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Games to Play to Become Aware of Sounds
Excerpt From "The Roadmap From Reading Failure to Success"
By Kathy Johnson, MS Ed
To be published December, 2014
Most people when young, process words and phrases all at once. They rarely play with sounds, unless someone plays directly with them. Suddenly they are in school and the teacher says, if I say "Kuh" "aaa" "tuh" and you put those sounds together, what word does it make? Some children may understand, yet others may find this very frustrating, because they had never played with sounds before. Play the following games to help with this!
I Spy
You may have played this with colors - I spy with my little eye something blue. The players then guess what it is by looking around the room for something blue. If the children you are working with don't know how to play with sounds yet, use a small number of objects or pictures. Start with 3 pictures - perhaps of a cat, a dog, and a mouse. Name them out loud so that they know what words you are using. Then say, "I spy with my little eye something that starts with the sound 'mmmm'. Is it cat or dog or mmmmouse?" Be sure to give it away since this is their first time doing it, and you want them to be successful!
Play it again and again. You can also find words that end with a certain sound as well.
It doesn't belong here
Using objects or pictures, the students have to find the one that does not start with the same sound as the others. For example, you could have a bat, a banana, a ball and a deck of cards. Have them listen closely for the one that starts differently. Make sure that the different one is not always last, although I have put it here for convenience. Other words:
- Man, mouse, marble, potato
- Shell, ship, shark, lobster
- Dirt, dart, dark, market
Rhyme it!
Rhyming might seem easy to you, but for some people, it is not a game they understand. It actually has to be taught. You will once again start with pictures or objects. Work with 3 or 4 at a time; only 1 of them does not rhyme.
Make this a guessing game, so if the students get the answer wrong, there is no penalty. Say, "Here are some made up words. Can you guess which word does not belong?"
- gan, lan, san, binton
- jid, sid, brable, fid
- sorbie, wev, kev, dev
Play these games daily, and in only a matter of a couple weeks, the students understand about sounds! Have fun!
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Did You Know?
| Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
What the problem looks like
A kid's perspective: What this feels like to me
Children will usually express their frustration and difficulties in a general way, with statements like "I hate reading!" or "This is stupid!". But if they could, this is how kids might describe how difficulties with phonological or phonemic awareness affect their reading: - I don't know any words that rhyme with cat.
- What do you mean when you say, "What sounds are in the word brush?"
- I'm not sure how many syllables are in my name.
- I don't know what sounds are the same in bit and hit.
A parent's perspective: What I see at home Here are some clues for parents that a child may have problems with phonological or phonemic awareness: - She has difficulty thinking of rhyming words for a simple word like cat (such as rat or bat).
- She doesn't show interest in language play, word games, or rhyming.
A teacher's perspective: What I see in the classroom Here are some clues for teachers that a student may have problems with phonological or phonemic awareness: - She doesn't correctly complete blending activities; for example, put together sounds /k/ /i/ /ck/ to make the word kick.
- He doesn't correctly complete phoneme substitution activities; for example, change the /m/ in mate to /cr/ in order to make crate.
- He has a hard time telling how many syllables there are in the word paper.
- He has difficulty with rhyming, syllabication, or spelling a new word by its sound.
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To find out more about Phonological and Phonemic Awareness and how to help, follow this link:
readingrockets.org
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Solving Auditory Processing Problems
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Contact Us
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Kathy Johnson, MS Ed
kjohnson@pyramidofpotential.com
Bob Johnson bobjohnson@pyramidofpotential.com
Pyramid of Potential 245 Washington St #3369 Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 518-260-3937
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Where's Kathy?
It is now time to set up your professional development at your school - Kathy is available for many dates this Fall! Call now to secure YOUR date! Below are the upcoming workshops that Kathy Johnson is giving. If she is not coming to your area, why not hire her for your next professional development? Kathy Johnson is speaking at the following conferences. More information can be found at https://www.njcd.org/specialedconference/
 NEW YORK "Maybe We Should Teach the Way They Learn"
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:00am-4:00pm
New York, NY FLORIDA "Supporting ALL Diverse Learners in the Classroom"
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 8:00am-4:00pm
Coconut Creek, FL NEW JERSEY "Towards Successful Inclusive Classroom Environments"
Sunday, February 8, 2015 at 12:00pm through Monday, February 9, 2015 at 5:30pm
Teaneck, NJ |
Monday, December 08, 2014 in BUFFALO, NY
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 11/18/2014 **
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Tuesday, December 09, 2014 in ROCHESTER, NY
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 11/19/2014 **
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Wednesday, December 10, 2014 in SYRACUSE, NY
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 11/20/2014 **
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 in MERRILLVILLE, IN
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 1/8/2015 **
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Thursday, January 29, 2015 in FORT WAYNE, IN
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 1/9/2015 **
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Friday, January 30, 2015 in CARMEL, IN
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 1/10/2015 **
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015 in MISSOULA, MT
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
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** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/5/2015 **
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Thursday, February 26, 2015 in BUTTE, MT
Speaker: KATHY JOHNSON, MS ED
Early Registration: $189.99
** Early Registration Prices Available Until 2/6/2015 **
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If you aren't near any of these on-site professional development conferences, consider the following: Dyslexia, Dyscalculia & Dysgraphia: An Integrated Approach Price: $169.99 Author: Kathy Johnson, MS Ed. Format: DVD |
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