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Being Grateful   Being grateful is good for one’s health. I’m grateful everyday for family, friends, experiences and feelings.  Thanksgiving is a time when we give thanks for our many blessings but really we need to do this every day. We can all be grateful for our ability to learn.  This ability can be used throughout our lives.  Fisher…

English Verb Practice for Spanish Speakers   Last week a teacher asked if our literacy series covered different verb tenses. The answer is Yes.  Our literacy series covers the present, past, future and progressive/contiuous verb forms. Our literacy series has six levels.  Each level has four workbooks: a Reading and Spelling workbook a Reading Comprehension…

Christmas Shopping in October!   Don’t know what to get your parents or grandparents for Christmas this year?  How about a workbook to help them become a U.S. citizen?  Fisher Hill has two workbooks to help Spanish Speakers pass the Citizenship Test.  The workbooks are called U.S. Citizenship for Spanish Speakers.  There are two workbooks in…

  Popular English Programs from Fisher Hill   Fisher Hill has two popular programs to help teens and adults learn English. We have an ESL series and a literacy program. Both the ESL series and the literacy program are made up of workbooks. The workbooks are designed to be easy to use. On each page,…

Word Chain with the Short /e/ Vowel Sound   Word chains are good practice to acquire automaticity with speech sounds. Word chains can provide practice for targeted speech sounds. Soon, under Teacher Tools on our website, we will have word chains to practice different sounds. This word chain will have words with the short /e/…

Word Chain with the Short /u/ Vowel Sound   Word chains are good practice to acquire automaticity with speech sounds. Word chains can provide practice for targeted speech sounds. Soon, under Teacher Tools on our website, we will have word chains to practice different sounds. This word chain will have words with the short /u/…

Word Chain with the Short /o/ Vowel Sound   Word chains are good practice to acquire automaticity with speech sounds. Word chains can provide practice for targeted speech sounds. Soon, under Teacher Tools on our website, we will have word chains to practice different sounds. This word chain will have words with the short /o/…

Short /i/ Vowel Sound   Word chains are good practice to acquire automaticity with speech sounds. Word chains with the Short /i/ Vowel Sound can provide practice for targeted speech sounds. Soon, under Teacher Tools on our website, we will have word chains to practice different sounds. This word chain will have words with the…

Teacher Resources   Fisher Hill’s literacy program for Spanish-speaking teens and adults, who want to learn how to read and write in English has six levels. Each level contains: an English Reading and Spelling workbook English Reading Comprehension workbook English Writing Composition workbook and an English Vocabulary workbook For each level, students need to always…

Word Chains   Word chains are good practice to acquire automaticity with speech sounds. Word chains can provide practice for targeted speech sounds. Soon, under Teacher Tools on our website, we will have word chains to practice different sounds. Our first word chain will have words with the short /a/ vowel sound. Teacher’s can use…

Vocabulary Practice   Fisher Hill’s literacy program for teens and adults has six levels. Each level has a: Reading and Spelling workbook Reading Comprehension workbook Writing Composition workbook Vocabulary workbook. In this blog, I will talk about the Vocabulary workbook at each level. The vocabulary workbook reinforces the new words learned at each level. Vocabulary…

Adult Literacy   Fisher Hill’s English literacy program uses the Orton-Gillingham teaching method which is a multi sensory, explicit and structured approach to teaching literacy. Fisher Hill’s English literacy program has six levels. Each level contains: an English Reading and Spelling workbook English Reading Comprehension workbook English Writing Composition workbook and an English Vocabulary workbook…

¡Learn Spanish!   Fisher Hill has a two workbook series that was written for the beginning student; for the person who wants to brush up on Spanish; or for the Spanish speaker who wants to ¡Learn Spanish! and how to read and write Spanish. The series is called Spanish Made Fun and Easy. There are…