I have seen this program in its infancy and know through my experiences with the program that it works! Georgia Howard not only understands the dynamics of the reading process, but tailors it to the specific needs of the adolescent student. The program is quick paced and maintains the integrity of the struggling reader at all times.
Celeste Johnson
District Mentor to Reading Teachers
Middle and High School
I am so thankful that you have developed a program that is both engaging and practical for these struggling students. Right from the start of the program my students are interested and enthusiastic about mastering phonics, and the workbook allows them ownership of lessons with visual aids and useful practice to boot. I’d be lost without these materials, and feel honored to have been a part of the “ground floor”. More importantly, though, my students would be the poorer for not having them.
Michelle Manuel
Reading Teacher
Middle and High School
Georgia Howard has the understanding of a child-to-adult's struggles with reading that surpasses anyone I have ever known or studied. Her reading series has been under construction for many years from her dedication and passion for reading proficiency. She has been my mentor and I have used her reading series with my intensive middle school students. Georgia Howard's approach can teach a rock to read. Her now complete series is built out of all those years of her passion, love, knowledge, understanding, and philosophy of NEVER letting anyone feel hopeless because of his/her inability to read well.
Mari Reed
Reading Teacher
Spec. Ed., Middle School
As a reading coach I found the STRIPSS materials fill a huge need in secondary. My teachers were delighted to finally have some organized, focused materials to address the phonics needs of their students. I haven’t seen any other appropriate secondary program that fills this huge gap in our students’ reading skills. The materials are engaging, to the point, and fun….plus they save teachers’ time searching for bits and pieces of phonics to use with their students.
Mary Thomas
Reading Coach
High School
Your guidance and reading intervention materials were integral to my success as a reading teacher. The materials are concise, extremely user-friendly and provided wonderful practice exercises. Thank you for all of your support.
Debbie Triplett
Reading Teacher
Middle School
Five Bridges, the main component of STRIPSS, uses syllabication as a decoding intervention. Experience shows that about eighty percent of students struggling with word decoding at the secondary level know their phonics but cannot use it because they perceive multisyllabic words as strings of letters. Along with the five rules for breaking words into syllables, the basic phonic and morphemic elements are developed from fundamental level to application at high school level in multisyllabic words.
Click for MoreHigh Powered Phonics, which is used with students who have completed Five Bridges to Higher Words, uses the decoding strategy of structural analysis to develop word decoding from middle school to college level. HP Phonics fosters the application of the five syllable rules with the visual patterning of multiple prefixes and suffixes.
Click for MoreThe Power of Three uses integrated visual-auditory-kinesthetic strategies and covers the entire phonic scope, with a perspective especially designed for the secondary student still weak in the basic development of phonics. The Power of Three includes a multisensory spelling intervention.
Click for MoreFlash Power uses flashcard strategies, in the teacher's choice of PowerPoint presentations or flashcards, to further develop the visual-auditory aspects of long and short vowels, final e, the open-closed syllable, and hard-soft c and g, for secondary students still weak in the basic development of phonics. Flash Power is especially applicable to the cooperative-group game format.
Click for MoreThrough our workshops and presentations at reading conferences, these materials have been successfully and enthusiastically used by teachers in Volusia County, and other areas of Florida, for more than ten years. The Howard Reading Service was established in 2007 as a vehicle for sharing our work more widely.
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