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Have Struggling Readers?
Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading provides a mental model
that students need in order to decode words easily, accurately--
and fast. It uses a system of 44 hand signs that prompt
associations between letters or word chucks and their sounds.
Tucker Signs require readers to see the letter(s), make a
sign, and say the sound at the same time. This multi-sensory
approach works wonders with students who struggle with regular
reading programs.
Tucker Signs are easy to learn for both the students and
instructors. Instructors can learn all the signs through the
DVD
or attending a
one-day workshop.
The signs can be applied immediately. Instructors typically present
half the signs to their students in one 45-minute session.
Most importantly, use of the Tucker Signs is fun. Students
think of the strategy as a game or a special sign language.
The end result is that students learn to read quickly without
realizing they are working.
Signs and Symbols Summary Report:
A research study directed by independent researcher Dr. William Swan,
Educational Leadership Associates, Inc., Athens, Georgia, was conducted
to assess the efficacy of using Tucker Signing Strategies (TSS), based on
the book Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading, (2001), to increase emergent
letter/sound-recognition skills and word recognition and decoding skills among
kindergarten students at Keshena Primary School and four year old pre-schoolers
at Menominee Nation Early Childhood Head Start Program in Wisconsin. Results
show that TSS had both a statistically significant and a practically
significant positive impact on students’ word-recognition skills.
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Testimonial:
"I would like to let you how much I have LOVED using the Tucker
Signing Strategies language system. [in our summer session for
special needs students]. For the first time ever, all my students
received a 100% on their "All You Can Spell" buffet. That has never
happened in the two years I've been doing the buffets, and I am
very certain that the Tucker signing has helped the students
greatly. I can't wait to use the system in the fall."
Cheryl Miceli,
Cicero PSD99, Illinois.
"Reyna is a 13-year-old female from El Salvador. She came to this country in
August 2006. Reyna had never attended school in El Salvador and speaks only
Spanish. She was placed in sixth grade because of her age. She was placed in our
METS program, which is designed for students who have experienced interrupted
schooling in their native country. Most of these students could read at least
on a second-grade level in their native language. Reyna was totally illiterate.
She did not know how to write, she didn’t recognize her name when written,
and she didn’t know the difference between a number and a letter."
Read more.
Rosa Leonard, Reading Specialist
Eastern Middle School
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"Our school year just ended and I just have to brag. This year they
learned 60 words compared to only 10 or 15 words the year before.
Tucker Signing Strategies helped with their self-esteem and gave them
great confidence to want to learn more and more. Thank you."
(Paraprofessional, Bald Knob AR Elementary School, Arkansas)
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