Creator of Johnny Can Spell & Johnny Can Write Alice Nine, a freelance educational consultant and author, has a tenacious focus on literacy. Many of her practical, common sense strategies, founded on research-based procedures, are not new but revised from 19th century...
This two-day training event adapts Johnny Can Spell to secondary classroom instruction. Johnny Can Spell is not a curriculum nor a program. It is an instructional approach to teaching foundational knowledge and skills of English. Teachers are equipped for integrated...
Research Johnny Can Spell & Write aligns with scientific research as summarized and reported by the National Reading Panel and in such publications as Beginning Reading by Marilyn Jager Adams, Put Reading First by the National Institute for Literacy, Preventing...
Testimonials Educators and parents report success. The Johnny Can Spell approach to spelling, reading, and writing is producing the kinds of gains in student learning that make teaching a joyful experience. In just a few short months since our school began the program...
Scope and Sequence Integrating knowledge and skills... Language instruction and development must happen in an integrated manner as elements of knowledge interact and build one upon the other. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills are the all encompassing...
Program Features Avoid reading failure: focus on prevention, not intervention! Johnny Can Spell / Johnny Can Write offers instruction and skill components that can be integrated easily with any reading and writing program already in place. The key points below...