Stride Ahead Copyright Keda Publications 2004 all rights reserved “ Recently my son has completed Stride Ahead and, after working hard on his SATs, he

Stride Ahead

Copyright Keda Publications 2004 all rights reserved

“Recently my son has completed Stride Ahead and, after working hard on his SATs, he is absolutely thrilled and shocked to find he has achieved Level 4 on all subjects! He now looks forward to high school with an excited anticipation rather than dread and fear. Thank you so much for changing his life.”

Mrs J Smith (Parent) West Yorkshire HD7 5SR

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Keda and Kathy Morrison – one of the key people behind West Dumbartonshire’s

literacy project – at a primary school in Scotland in 2003.

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This need not happen…

I-am-in-the-slow

read-ers-group-my-broth

er-is-in-the-foot

ball-team-my-sis-ter

is a ser-ver-my

lit-tle broth-er-was

a-wise-man-in-the

in-fants-christ-mas-play

I-am-in-the-slow

read-ers-group-that-is

all-I-am-in-I

hate-it.

‘Slow Reader’ by Allan Ahlberg

From Please Mrs Butler (Kestrel 1983)

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•Stride Ahead can be regarded as a follow on from Toe by Toe

• Meant for older students

•Aims to make decoding process automatic without requiring concentrated mental effort.

•Students' comprehension improves as they can turn all their attention to the meaning of the text in front of them.

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“A good reader is only conscious of meaning. The print on the page is all but invisible”

Prof. Diane McGuinness

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•Toe by Toe insists that the student is dragged back to check the absolute basics (i.e. the letter sounds)

•Older students sometimes find this ‘demeaning’.

•May find you are hitting 'resistance' from Day One.

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•Stride Ahead – however - assumes that a few decoding skills are already in place.

•Thus 'real reading' comes much sooner in the programme.

•Teenage boys - especially - really start to enjoy the series of timed 'challenges' at the heart of the Stride Ahead method.

•The scheme is achieving astonishing results with older, disheartened students.

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•Another great advantage of Stride Ahead is that the course is much shorter.

•With daily input of 30 minutes, it's perfectly possible to finish in a couple of months.

•Children who have reached the age of 11+ need to have their reading problems 'sorted' ASAP in order to bring their school misery to an end.

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1st Preliminary Exercise (Page 5)

sleefoanashafe

sainackeefote

fainerchottem

joapeefinper

sleef/oan/ash/afe

sain/ack/eef/ote

fain/er/chott/em

joap/eef/in/per

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2nd Preliminary Exercise (Page 7)

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3rd Preliminary Exercise (Page 7)

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Exercise 1 – Twin Consonants, …er, …ing

(Section A)

grot/sip/ter

ot/seff/on/der

flopp/it/sad

tem/soff/er

fet/amm/ing

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Exercise 1 (Section B)

grotsip/ter

otseff/onder

floppit/sad

temsoff/er

fetamm/ing

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Exercise 1 – (Section C)1. grotsipter2. ipsaffing3. otseffonder4. spennorper5. floppitsad6. recommend7. temsoffer8. disembarking9. fetamming

13 seconds

Target time:

Benchmark time:

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Exercise 2 – introducing ch, th, ck, sh…

(Section A)

chiff/in/ack

oth/ash/ing

en/sif/tash/er

osh/ick/ent

rack/ipp/esh

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Sentences for Exercises 1 and 2

Section One

The scarlet car was driven to Cardiff by a different swimming attendant.

The man in the black cardigan was stammering as he went up the path.

There was a lack of understanding by all members of the slimming club.

If you like chestnuts you must demand them so you can get fatter.

The Spanish fishermen went to see the boxing champ from Manchester.

The customer did not like the chattering of the chap in the market.

Target time: 30 secs.

Benchmark timeThis stride was taken on __/__/__

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Exercise 5 – introducing oa & ai(Section A)

bloat/on/dail

fain/er/oad

gload/am/pail

float/ipp/er

craid/oaf/ite

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Exercise 9 – ‘oo’ as in moon(Section A)

fish/oom/ing

lon/der/ood

flin/ooth/ate

ad/mood/er

toop/ad/een

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Exercise 10 – ‘oo’ as in hook(Section A)

glood/aff/er

cren/ook/ing

con/soot/end

wool/in/der

an/ook/ash

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Exercise 26 (Part 1)

“shun” “shul” “shuss”

…acious …ition …ecial

…ution …ocial …tious

…atial …icious …otion

…osion …acial …ician

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Exercise 26 (Part 2)

spacious on/aciouspalatial fib/atialsensation ter/ationinvasion sat/asiondelicious frait/icioussuperficial if/sack/icialsuspicion ig/lam/icionpetition car/itionmagician slant/icianinitial fain/itialostentatious clap/atiouserosion plem/osionspecial float/ecial

Column 1 Column 2

Target Time 15 seconds

This stride was taken on __/__/__

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Reinforcement Page for Part 3

boit/en/ite

coinfiddle

appointment

gor/ger/ance

registered

centiphane

ex/taun/ching

withdrawal

autocratic

con/gen/ting

greengages

rigorant

occ/uf/ter

successful

desiccate

en/sligh/tess

highlighting

conblighter

can/doach/er

recycling

cemetery

con/ster/nation

fainitial

onacious

pleed/ew/per

fewperance

neutralise

This stride was taken on __/__/__

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Sentences for Exercises 41 and 42

Section Two

My cousin Phyllis trained to be a physiotherapist but found the sheer physical demands

of the job too much of a strain. She had studied psychology at college and briefly

considered training to become a psychologist or even a psychiatrist. The thought of

being attacked by psychotic patients soon put her off the idea. One day she was having

her palms read by an old gypsy lady who told her that she had phenomenal psychic

powers. As a result she invested in a crystal ball and joined a circus.

Target time: 30 secs.

Benchmark timeThis stride was taken on __/__/__

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JABBERWOCKY

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!

The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun

The frumious Bandersnatch!”

Lewis Carroll (1832 – 98)

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“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them”

Mark Twain (1835 – 1910)

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CHANGE IN READING AGE WITH DAILY INTERVENTION USING STRIDE AHEAD / TOE BY TOE

* PARENTS TUTORING AFTER 1ST MONTH

SHAFANA K 18.9 10.8 13.9 3.1 5 Stride SchonellMATTHEW C 12.3 8.7 13.0 4.5 14 Stride SchonellJACK T 12.4 8.1 12.7 4.6 20 Stride SchonellCATH I 18.9 10.1 12.6 2.5 12 Stride SchonellAIMEE L 9.1 8.4 11.5 3.1 12 Stride SchonellBEN P 14.6 11.1 15.0 3.11 7 Stride SchonellPHILIP J 9.0 8.5 13.3 4.10 15 Stride SchonellROSS S 11.0 10.1 13.9 3.8 8 Stride SchonellJEAN B 51.2 13.5 14.10 1.5 4.5 Stride SchonellJESSICA B 11.1 10.2 13.8 3.6 8 Stride SchonellKODIE B 7.6 8.1 12.10 4.9 11 Stride SchonellJABIN H* 9.6 9.5 13.1 3.8 9 Stride SchonellCHRIS L* 9.6 8.1 13.4 5.3 20 Stride SchonellBEN F* 9.4 7.9 12.6 4.9 36 Stride SchonellSTEVEN W* 8.0 8.7 11.7 3.0 48 Stride Schonell

Average 3.9 15

TOM N 8.0 7.2 12.1 4.11 24 TBT SchonellCHARLOTTE H 8.2 7.1 11.9 4.8 23 TBT SchonellMATTHEW R* 9.11 8.4 12.5 4.1 9 TBT SchonellGEORGE D* 7.7 7.0 11.9 4.9 16 TBT SchonellCONNOR W* 7.2 6.6 13.6 7.0 24 TBT SchonellJOE B* 8.1 5.9 9.7 3.10 34 TBT Schonell

Average 4.11 22

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