Teachers Recommend The Nardagani Reading Program
Teachers who used the Nardagani Reading Program, during teacher-based research studies that were implemented in the United States public school system, saw student reading improvement and the data gathered was dramatic. From literacy specialists to middle school teachers to ESL instructors, professionals who frequently work with challenged readers who have been diagnosed with a reading disability and qualify for IEP (Individual Education Program), share their experiences of using Nardagani in the classroom.
“The Nardagani Reading Program uses a simple, structured method to help students improve their decoding skills and, thereby, improve reading fluency. … With the scaffolded support of the Nardagani symbols, readers do not have to guess, analyze, or remember rules and exceptions; instead, the consistent phoneme-sound correspondence allows them to immediately recognize, and verbalize, the necessary sounds to produce the words in text,” Annette Wall, seventh-grade teacher at Saint Paul School, Nampa School District, Idaho.
“I teach English to local Hispanics who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to speak English. With Nardagani, I have the tools to teach people faster. Students can learn to read and correctly pronounce English words in only four lessons. Once they feel confident pronouncing the words, they quickly learn more vocabulary and learn to speak the language with a clear accent. When I was learning English, it was boring. When I teach with Nardagani, the students are excited,” Jose, Nardagani teacher
“Data gathered shows that completing the Nardagani program can yield a large amount of growth in a short time frame. … I have been teaching special-education language learning labs for three years, and until being introduced to the Nardagani Reading Program had not found a program that teaches decoding in a different way than it is traditionally taught in the primary grades. The method of teaching needs to be different because the previous approaches have either not worked, or only partially worked. A need for a novel approach also exists because the system of special education at the state level requires teachers to use some form of research-based intervention curriculum. Our current options are few and, quite frankly, poor,” Jody Braun, Special Education, Lake Hazel Middle School, West Ada School District, Idaho.
Click here to learn more about the Nardagani Reading Program and watch Narda’s TEDx talk, “A New Way to Learn to Read English.”
