Free Download of the Funnix Beginning Reading Program
February 1 - 16, 2012

From February 1st-16th, the Funnix Beginning Reading program will be free for download--no strings, no hidden costs.

The Funnix sequence teaches 2 year's worth of reading skills. During last year's promotion, more than 40,000 people received the Funnix Beginning Reading program free. Even higher numbers are anticipated for this year.

If you're in the market for an excellent beginning reading program, sign up for your free download of Funnix Beginning Reading. The program has been offered for $25 during most of 2011; however, the price will rise to $38 following the giveaway in February.

The free version of Funnix Beginning Reading is downloadable. You fill out a form available at funnix.com starting February 1. After filling out the form, you will receive an email with instructions on how to download the entire 220 lessons onto your computer. You will receive everything you need to teach the program, including daily workbook activities and guides to help utilize the program effectively.

When you teach Funnix Beginning Reading, you and your child sit next to each other and watch the computer screen. A narrator presents a series of fast-paced exercises in each 30-minute lesson. The narrator asks questions, and your child responds out loud. Your job is to reinforce correct responses and correct any mistakes by following simple rules for "navigating" the program.

In schools, the program works the same way, except there's usually a small group of children being taught, and the person who leads the group is a teacher or an aide.

The program, designed by Siegfried Engelmann and Owen Engelmann, has been very successful with a large range of children from ages 4 through 7 who enter the program knowing nothing about reading, including children who have been written off by schools.

Remember, the giveaway starts at 1 am (EST) February 1.

No early signup. Go to funnix.com between February 1-February 16 to sign up.

The longer printed works on Zigsite include, Rubric for Identifying Authentic DI Programs, Low Performers' Manual,and the log of the first formal study I did in education—Comparative Preschool Study: High and Low SES Preschoolers Learning Advanced Cognitive Skills. These are constructive. Most of the other works are constructive only in the sense that they help clarify why education has gone basically nowhere in the past 40 years. Only now are educators starting to "invent" some of the stuff we used back in the 60s.

The prologues frame the "historical context" for the article or tome, and why I think it's important. Although some of the articles critique works you may not have read, I think that I express the oppositions' positions at least fairly enough that you don't have to read these works (unless you have masochistic tendencies).

For all pieces on the website, I hold the copyright. Feel free to download them, and use them. If you have a special use, or want to publish something, check it out with me.

Your comments are welcome.

Contact Zig at zig@nifdi.org (541) 485-1973

LINKS TO RELATED SITES

• Biographical Sketch
• NIFDI (National Institute for Direct Instruction)
• University of Oregon
• ADI Association for Direct Instruction
• FUNNIX Reading Programs
  
  

LINKS TO RELATED ARTICLES

• Ed Week: A Direct Challenge—Baltimore
• NIFDI Papers: Achieving a Full-School,
  Full-Immersion Implementation
  of Direct Instruction

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