What do you mean when you say the Bannatyne Program is a fully integrated, interlaced reading, writing, spelling and language program?
In traditional classroom teaching, traditional curricula, and even remedial situations, the English language is fragmented into separate subjects so that reading, spelling, writing and language skills are not only taught at different times during the day or week, but also taught with a curriculum content for each (especially the words used) that is quite different and unrelated to the others. Such a chaotic approach confuses students and leaves them with unrelated, rote-memorized sets of mixed words which are rarely used thereafter–except by chance. In the Bannatyne Program the actual words students are learning to read are the identical words they are (at the same time) learning to spell, write, comprehend, close on, speed read and use in a variety of learning activities and stories. Also, each facet of language learning immediately reinforces the others; for example, a specific word and its structure are simultaneously learned through the multiple channels of listening with the ears
