Phonic Remedial Reading Lessons

This classic step-by-step program introduced by three esteemed pioneers in the field of LD, has been used widely for teaching reading to children who fail to learn by conventional methods. The manual presents a unique one-to-one remedial program that differs from other intensive phonics programs in the consistency with which sound-symbol relationships are presented and reinforced. Although originally designed for use with reading disabled children, Phonic Remedial Reading Lessons has been used successfully with children and learners of all abilities. Is it multisensory? You bet! The program uses a grapho-vocal method in which the student is instructed to visualize, write, say, and hear the sounds simultaneously as each phoneme is introduced. The key to its effectiveness is clearly the single sound-symbol relationship that remains constant throughout the lessons. With extensive reinforcement and frequent review, this format promotes errorless responses that provide a feeling of success and increased motivation.

A collection of practical activities that provide a framework for teaching phonics.

Ever since the sight word method replaced phonics as the way to teach children to read and spell, there have been arguments -sometimes called "the reading wars" - for and against phonics. The author remembers far enough back to the days before all this started - when teaching letters and sounds went without saying and parents could depend on the school system to teach their children to read. Reading difficulties forced theorists to re-think their strategies so they came up with a philosophy of reading: that children would learn to read on their own because they want to learn to read. There would be plenty of books classed as "children's literature" and teachers would be "facilitators." In Reading With Phonics, the author discusses reading methods and arguments for and against phonics. She tells about some of the children she has tutored since retiring from teaching. An earlier book, Learn To Read From Sounds with an accompanying cassette tape on which phonetically arranged words are read is also available from Trafford Publishing.

First published in 1967, Reading and Remedial Reading describes the normal reading programme in the school where the author taught and the diagnosis and treatment of acute difficulties in learning to read. The work deals mainly with so-called educationally maladjusted children, many of whom showed signs of possible damage to the central nervous system, but Mr Tansley believes that the methods and techniques given are applicable to all children, irrespective of levels of intelligence, who are experiencing difficulties to learn. The results achieved are most encouraging and have been tested by numerous expert visitors from this country and abroad. This is a helpful guide to a large number of people- staffs and students in University Education Departments, educational psychologists, remedial teachers, special-school teachers, primary school teachers, and medical officers in the School Health Service.

First published in 1913, Word Mastery continues to be a complete and highly effective phonics method for teaching beginning and remedial reading. Everything needed to successfully teach anyone to read with phonics is contained between the covers of this book. Especially helpful with anyone who shows tendencies toward dyslexia. In fact Anna Gillingham gave a copy to her dyslexia teachers.