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Sharon McMichael, M.Ed., is a Reading Teacher and Dyslexia Specialist whose students have had some great results using the Basic Language Skills curriculum.

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Preliminary data from an intervention study conducted by Neuhaus Education Center with third-grade students suggest that the addition of metacognitive strategies to daily comprehension lessons boosted students’ comprehension and spelling by 20% and vocabulary by 40% on standardized and criterion reference measures. In the study, 130 third-graders in two schools were given 30-minute comprehension lessons daily over a five-week period. The students in one school received metacognitive strategies ...

Reading Psychology, 26:401- 432, 2005 Copyright 2005 Taylor & Francis Inc. ISSN: 0270-2711 print / 1521-0685 online Suzanne H. Carreker Neuhaus Education Center, Houston, Texas, USA Paul R. Swank University of Texas - Houston Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA  ...

by Suzanne Carreker, past president, The Houston Branch of The International Dyslexia Association director of teacher development, Neuhaus Education Center (This article is reprinted with permission from The Houston Branch of The International Dyslexia Association.) As many as one in five students have dyslexia. Undiagnosed or without special instruction, dyslexia can lead to frustration, school failure, and low self-esteem. The common myths about dyslexia are that dyslexics read ...

The Developing Metacognitive Skills curriculum was used in one middle school in an urban school district. The ethnicity of the school was 98% Hispanic and 2% Black. Middle schools often place students in groups or clusters, and this was so at the participating school. One cluster was assigned as the treatment group and one the control group. Science and social studies classes were targeted due to the difficulty many students have in comprehending expository text (Hacker and Tennet, 2002). ...

In 1997, Neuhaus Education Center began a three-year collaboration with Brownsville Independent School District (BISD) to offer 60 hours of professional development for their teachers. BISD chose Neuhaus Education Center’s Language Enrichment curriculum for all first- and second-grade teachers in the district. This curriculum was chosen because it provides a broad base of scientifically validated knowledge about reading, writing, and spelling. Brownsville, Texas, is located on the ...

Results from a five-week study showing reading comprehension and vocabulary gains made by third-grade students taught using Neuhaus Education Center’s metacognitive strategies were reported...