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Bethanie Tucker

Bethanie Hamlett Tucker, Ed.D. of North Carolina has been a professional educator since 1972. She has served as a classroom teacher, a resource teacher, a teacher of gifted students, program coordinator, grant-funded project director, and is currently a professor of education at a University in Danville, Virginia. While teaching at there she researched and developed Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading, a decoding method using sight, sound, and movement that has been highly successful with struggling readers nationwide and in some foreign countries. Bethanie Hamlett Tucker provides training and consulting services for reading, A Framework for Understanding Poverty, Learning Structures, and Under-Resourced Learners. An experienced consultant, Bethanie has presented numerous workshops.

Categories: Educator, Educator - Literacy and Reading, Educator - Math

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Topics

Hidden Rules of Class at Work

How to Motivate Students to Increase Performance

Readiness Skills and Relationship Building

Vocabulary and Mental Model Development for Preschool

Tucker Signing for Early Childhood Reading

Reading by Age 5

Tucker Signing Strategies

Understanding and Engaging Under-Resourced College Students

Engage and Graduate Your Secondary Students: Preventing Dropouts

Under-Resourced Learners

Research-Based Strategies

Framework for Understanding Poverty

Books

Mr. Base Ten Invents Mathematics

This intriguing story provides mental models that teach mathematical concepts at the foundational level. A glove maker who starts by sewing finger covers leads to his invention of place value, addition, subtraction, multiplication and regrouping. He marries Decimal Point, and their children are Fractions.

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Reading by Age 5

See It, Sign It, Read It, Spell It! Fast results and great fun to teach for teachers and parents! The book and DVD contains a balanced blend of American Sign Language and Tucker Signing Strategies with easy-to-follow guidelines to help caregivers teach children as young as 9 months to sign words and concepts, the building blocks of reading. As children grow and learn, the transition into signing sounds and blending those sounds together to make words becomes easier. It s a well known fact: The area of the brain responsible for language development shares nerve endings with the part of the brain responsible for motor coordination. No wonder young children love to use their hands to communicate! And that s what makes Reading by Age 5 so revolutionary This proven, research-based program helps children: develop language acquisition, phonemic awareness, and decoding skills, prepare a foundation for reading-comprehension skills, outperform fellow students on a variety of reading and pre-reading measurements, communicates their needs with less stress, bond with caregivers through eye contact and positive interactions, absorb knowledge more readily in other subject areas as well.

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Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading

While teaching at Averett, Dr. Tucker field-tested the concept of using hand signs to build letter-sound associations. She developed this concept over a number of years. It was an outgrowth of a variety of experiences studying American Sign Language, observing active young readers struggle with the reading process, and searching for ways to monitor more precisely how the minds of children work. The hand signs began to unlock the mystery of decoding unfamiliar words for non readers of all ages. Now, get a Tucker Signing Strategies for Reading manual WITH its very own DVD right inside the back cover. Just updated, this handy DVD shows Dr. Tucker demonstrating all 44 of the Tucker Signs, answering questions on the strategy, and interviews of people having successfully used the strategy. Ruby Payne says, I've never seen a strategy with a faster learning transfer!

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