OnTrack Reading

I apologize to anyone who has tried to access the information on my site the past couple of weeks. Somehow all of the pages to the Guide on the sidebar became inaccessible and it took a while to fix the problem.

While the site was down, Google (and probably the other search engines as well) categorized a bunch of pages that were randomly located on the site, so if you got here via a search engine and couldn’t make sense of the site, it’s because you became trapped in an archive of the site when it wasn’t working right. Try coming directly to ontrackreading.com and using the table of contents to the guide on the sidebar if you’ll be returning for additional information (instead of trying to find the page via the search engine…for a while, anyway.) With the site back up, the search engines should straighten out over time.

And thanks to the anonymous poster who left the comment that alerted me to the problem, and thanks also to my son, Matt, at Astuteo.com, for doing the fix. Thought I’d lost everything there for a while.

Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays!

Rod Everson

OnTrack Reading

Thanks to Gary at Homeschoolbuzz.com who included a submission from this site in the Carnival of Homeschooling this week. (It was The Vision Piece, from the Guide on the sidebar.)

If you are here because the vision aspect of the article interests you, I would encourage you to take a look at a few chapters of The OnTrack Reading Story on the sidebar, particularly the ones beginning at Vision Enters the Picture, as these chapters describe my own experiences learning about vision issues a few years ago.

On the other hand, if your main interest is teaching your children to read, I’d encourage you to start at the beginning of The OnTrack Reading Story where you can learn more of the curriculum that I use in my reading practice and also of some of the other curricula that influenced its development.

I should also tell you that this site is still being developed, so if you see something that interests you so far, please bookmark this page and check back from time to time. I’m trying to add about five pages each week to what I’ve been calling the “Guide” located on the sidebar to the right.

The most recent additions were on testing, and these might interest you, as might the ones on the method I’ve developed to teach multisyllable decoding.

If you have questions or comments, feel free to leave them at the end of this post. I’m trying to decide which particular direction to go next as I develop the Guide and comments sometimes help me.