Print Inverted Reading

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PI Guided Reading !
Five bright and eager First Graders discover that they can make sense out of print. Notice, as the lesson progresses, how two of the children keep "flipping" from inverted to right-side-up. With encouragement in a non-threatening environment anything is possible!     Click link below...
http://www.dropshots.com/teacherman9000#date/2009-10-05/12:09:47

Another "new" video from last fall's PI group. (New only because I just completed the long tedious process of facial blurring).  http://www.dropshots.com/teacherman9000#date/2009-10-05/14:50:41
This young lady was able to successfully "turn it over" just a few weeks after this video was taken.

The two videos are of a seven year old boy discovering that he is just as smart as his classmates. He can read - but he has to hold his book upside down! His mom is there to witness his rapid progress. Within a month his "brain flips it over" and he is reading conventionally.
http://www.dropshots.com/teacherman9000#albums/Print%20Inverted%20Reading

VIDEO IS NOW WORKING!  The next video IS of a six year old boy who was unable to name the letters of the alphabet when the list was presented conventionally, but does so with ease when the page is inverted. Soon after, he is reading and making rapid progress with his leveled books - but only when they are held upside down. He, too, begins transitioning to "right-side-up" within just a few weeks.

http://www.dropshots.com/teacherman9000#date/2009-09-16/21:57:22

Print Inverted Writing

My second PI reader turns out to be my first PI writer. This bright (but very frustrated) little boy made no progress whatsoever in reading or writing for the first six months of school. He couldn't read the simplest pre-primer or write a legible word. After I discovered he was a PI reader I asked him to try writing the way he saw it in his brain, and this was the result. His enthusiasm is obvious.
 http://www.dropshots.com/teacherman9000#date/2009-04-25/21:27:21

* Longer version updated 10/18/10
This first grade girl had great difficulty putting words on paper until she was encouraged to "write it the way she saw it in her mind" - upside down! Notice how neatly it is written. Within a month she was able to begin transitioning to writing conventionally. http://www.dropshots.com/teacherman9000#date/2009-09-23/09:56:10

Videos From Other Sites

An old film clip from the 1930's of "inversionist" schoolboy Frank Balek. This just proves that PI reading and writing isn't new - it's just been ignored or strongly discouraged by parents and teachers alike - thus causing much greater problems.
http://www.wpafilmlibrary.com/detail/upside_down_schoolboy_inversionist_schoolboy_ frank_balek_writes_upside_down_and_back_to_front_on_a_blackboard/56c50a7d-215a-b540-8fdc-7aea9cadfa8a.html

An open-minded mom is a bit surprised to see how well her child can read a book upside down and backwards. I've seen five, six and seven year olds who can read just as well either way and, then again, there are those who can only read it this way -- the true PI readers. 
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=irfoYp9Iqsg&feature=related