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Children learning reading with sounds is a relatively new method. This involves sub-lexical techniques like phonics. However, most people are still taught to read with whole language methods, commonly referred to as sight reading. Here is a look at some of the ways that phonics can be an effective tool for teaching young people to read.

Whole language employs methods to teach young people words by seeing them and then repeating them. This is believed to be the best method as it allows people to see words, and gradually they are committed to memory through repetition. However, it does very little when a child stumbles upon a new word, and has no idea how to pronounce it. This is where phonics can be effective. Phonics allows children to learn all of the different sounds or phonemes that words are made of. It takes some time and a great deal of practice to learn them all. Even though whole language proponents claim that phonics teaching it is too redundant, in time it can be very valuable. Once a child learns to recognize certain sounds, the child can figure out how to pronounce unfamiliar words. This allows for a more independent reading experience.

When young readers can figure out new words on their own, the process of learning can be performed smoothly and without interruption. While sight reading, a child comes upon a new word and often times has no idea how to pronounce it. In most cases, this is through no fault of the child.

The English language has many words that are not easy to pronounce and certain rules do not always apply. Even though some words may look similar, they are not always pronounced the same way. By learning and understanding common phonemes in the English language, a child can gradually learn to pronounce many new words without assistance.

In phonics, phonemes are seen as components or parts of words. In direct contrast, whole language learning teaches the entire word at one glance. In essence, it will take many years to learn whole language, as there are so many words that have strange rules for pronunciation. However, once a child learns all of the components, they can more easily be put together to form and understand words in sentences.

The teaching method of phonics involves repetitive processes, which adults may see as boring. This perception may be slanted as adults tend to bore more easily than children. For example, a child will watch a certain movie over and over again. In fact, they may watch it so much that the parent may seek to hide the DVD. This shows that children actually enjoy repetition and phonics drills may not seem boring to young minds.

Placing it all into perspective, sight reading or whole language methods are the most common ways to teach literacy. However, there are many children learning reading with phonics methods. Phonics employs phonemes or sounds to teach words in components instead of whole. This can serve to help many young people learn to read more effectively and independently.

Is the development and education of your child important to you? And have you been searching for a program that will help you teach your child to read, but spending hundreds of dollars on unproven programs just doesn't make any sense to you? I can understand your frustrations, as I've been through much of the same experiences myself... Do you search for a step-by-step program that helps you to easily teach your children to read. The wonderful thing about this program I´m talking about, is that as long as your child is able to speak, it will help you teach your child to read fluently. I had some doubts initially when I saw that the program claimed that even 2 and 3 year old children can be taught to read effectively; however, my doubts were quickly put to rest when I saw their video proofs of small children reading.

The central goal of the Children Learning Reading program is to help your child learn to decode printed text quickly and learn to read fluently through the critical process of developing phonemic awareness.

Learning to read at a young age is important for the development of the child. It helps them develop a better understand of their surroundings, allows them to gather information from printed materials, and provides them with a wonderful source of entertainment when they read stories and rhymes.Easily Teach Your Child to Read WITHOUT the Ineffective, Over-Priced TV/DVD/Computer Programs, and Save Hundreds of Dollars! Tips to teach your child how to read

What's the best way to teach children to read? According to the National Reading Panel, "teaching children to manipulate phonemes in words was highly effective under a variety of teaching conditions with a variety of learners across a range of grade and age levels and that teaching phonemic awareness to children significantly improves their reading more than instruction that lacks any attention to Phonemic Awareness."Spend ONLY 10 to 15 Minutes Each Day to Teach Your Child to Become a FAST and FLUENT Reader Best way to teach your child to read

The ability to read is vital for success. It helps your child succeed in school, helps them build self-confidence, and helps to motivate your child. Being able to read will help your child learn more about the world, understand directions on signs and posters, allow them to find reading as an entertainment, and help them gather information. Dramatically Improve Your Child's Reading and Reading Comprehension Skills. How to Help Your Child Learn to Read

Phonics is a necessary part of any good method of teaching children to read. Teaching Children phonics and helping them develop phonemic awareness is the key to mastering words, which is the first key step toward successful reading. Children need to develop a knowledge of the letters, the sounds represented by the letters, and the connection between sounds created by combining the letters where words are formed.Quickly Help Your Child Become More Articulate and Develop an Advanced Vocabulary Teaching phonics to children

Teach Your Child to Read by Learning Phonics and Developing Phonemic Awareness Skills.
It is a fact - helping children develop phonemic awareness skills is the most essential step in acquiring reading skills.[1] The spoken english language is made up of words and sentences, and these words are made up of individual sounds or phonemes. Once a child can speak, he or she can learn to say and recognize these individual sounds through a process called developing phonemic awareness Childrens Reading and Phonemic Awareness Research

Teach Your Baby to Read Without Television and Without Computer Programs.
Do not think for one minute, that spending hundreds of dollars on ineffective DVD, Television, and Computer programs will teach your child to read or replace the loving care and enthusiasm of an attentive parent. We went through this ourselves, and cannot extol enough the benefits of the close parent/child bonding that occurs during this learning process.

You will become the parent and teacher during the most important developmental years of your child's life. For that, you will be rewarded with the greatest experience, and your child will be rewarded with the most important skill in life - reading and literacy development.

Through the teaching process outlined in our program, you will stimulate communication skills, close interactions, and social skills development with your child.

The NAEP is the only ongoing survey of what students known and tracks their performance in various academic subjects for the United States. In their report, the NAEP found that 38% of grade four students had reading achievement below basic levels, with a basic level reading score being 208.Did you know that 38% of grade four students have reading abilities below the lowest basic level as determined by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)? Teaching a Child to Read at an Early Age

Advantages of Teaching Children Reading Early
Before a child learns to read, he or she must first learn the spoken language, and this is one of the first instances where family members such as dad, mom, older siblings, and grandparents play an important role in "teaching" the child the spoken English language. Advantages of Teaching Children Reading Early

Teaching Children to Read and Write
Most parents, at one point or another, frets over the education and the development of their children. Many concerned parents research and seek information on the topic of teaching children to read and write. I for one, am glad to see so many parents wanting to get an early start for their children in reading and writing, because studies have shown that developing these abilities early on before entering school provides numerous benefits and advantages later on as the child progresses through school.

Developing Phonemic Awareness and Learning Reading
As more research brings to light the advantages of phonics and phonemic awareness instructions have over whole language teaching methods, more parents are becoming aware of teaching using phonics and phonemic awareness skills.

How to Teach Phonics and Reading
Teaching phonics to children is no different where you follow a step by step approach by first teaching the child the alphabet letters and phonics sounds, and then teaching them the combination of different letters to create different words, and using words to form sentences. It is a very logical and sequential buildup of phonics knowledge and reading ability.

How to Teach Your Baby to Read
Teaching your baby to read is becoming more and more high priority for parents now as it becomes clear that learning to read at a young age offers numerous advantages for the child once he or she begins school. Studies have consistently found that teaching a baby to read and helping children develop phonemic awareness well before entering school can significantly improve their development in reading and spelling.

Teach Phonemic Awareness While Reading Bedtime Stories
Helping young children develop phonemic awareness early on is one of the keys for children to develop exceptional reading and writing skills once they begin attending schools. Did you know that studies have indicated that phonemic awareness is the single best predictor of reading success for young children once they begin school? In fact, studies have found that phonemic awareness is far better than IQ at predicting the reading and spelling abilities of young children.

Teach Your Child How to Read
As you may be well aware, reading is one of the most importantskills one must master to succeed in life. Reading is involved in almost all aspects of our lives and print is everywhere you look.It could be reading road signs, posters, billboards, books, magazines, restaurant menus, warning labels, product labels, and so much more.

For free reading games for kids to help improve their phonic reading skills, check out Shelterwood Books' reading games for kids.

Over 30 million adults in the US are considered functionally illiterate.
14% of all adults CANNOT achieve basic literacy levels - These adults are unable to perform simple, everyday literacy activities, and it only gets worse... [4]

The U.K. government's Department of Education reported that 42% of children left school without achieving a basic level of functional English - Over 100,000 students leave schools functionally illiterate in the UK each year! [4]

The Australian Government Department of Education reported that 33% of all year 5 students CANNOT meet the benchmark literacy skills, and in Canada, 42% of Canadians are considered semi-illiterate! [6 ,7] Unfortunately, non of these above shocking literacy statistics should be surprising because...

"Many in-service teachers are not knowledgeable in the basic concepts of the English language. They do not know how to address the basic building blocks of language and reading." - This is NOT a statement that I am making, rather, this is a troubling finding from a study done at the Texas A&M University. Their study was aptly titled "Why elementary teachers might be inadequately prepared to teach reading." [5]

These disturbing statistics and findings are not something I pulled out of thin air. They are reported by government agencies on the current state of the literacy levels of adults and school children.

Notes:

† Adv Child Dev Behav. 1993;24:133-80.Does reading make you smarter? Literacy and the development of verbal intelligence.Stanovich KE. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Toronto, Canada.

†† The Cognitive Foundations of Learning to Read: A FrameWorkSebastia WrenSouthwest Educational Development Laboratory

1. Cognition. 1991 Sep;40(3):219-49.The relationship of phonemic awareness to reading acquisition: more consequence than precondition but still important.Wimmer H, Landerl K, Linortner R, Hummer P.University of Salzburg, Austria.

2. NAEP 1998 Reading Report Card for the Nation and the StatesMarch 1999Authors: Patricia L. Donahue, Kristin E. Voelkl, Jay R. Campbell, and John Mazzeo

3. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2000). Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction (NIH Publication No. 00-4769). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

4. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy

5. 2. J Learn Disabil. 2009 Sep-Oct;42(5):392-402. Epub 2009 Jun 19.Why elementary teachers might be inadequately prepared to teach reading.Joshi RM, Binks E, Hougen M, Dahlgren ME, Ocker-Dean E, Smith DL.

6. Australia Government Department of Education, Science and Traiing: http://www.dest.gov.au/archive/schools/literacy&numeracy/charts.htm

7. CBC News: Canada's Shame - http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/education/canada-shame.html

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"His reading ability has improved dramatically...He has also gone up to the highest level in his reading... A few months ago he was almost at the bottom of his class in his reading but now has gone up so much. Hi, Jim

I have two children - Oscar who turned 5 in August and Sarah who turned 3 in September. Anyway, I got this programme for my son. The reason why I started to look for some programme for my son's reading in the first place was that the teachers at his reception class told me that Oscar was not able to say some sounds correctly (a bit delayed compared with other children in his class). Although he was only four and youngest in his class, it made me worry, and started to notice his pronunciation issues (bad habits). Even though the teachers pointed out the issue, they did not seem to have any clue how to work on this matter and did not try to help my son much. The books they gave Oscar as homework was not structured for him to learn step by step, and confusing.

My wife and I took him to a speech therapist via National Health Service, who told us that we should not work on his sounds because we can "put him off" and wait for 6 months until the next appointment after the initial assessment. But, I knew that it is a long time to wait (Oscar will reinforce his own bad habits of saying wrong sounds while we wait). So, I started to help him every day with his sounds/speech. But, all the materials I came across did not have any step by step and systematic approach for my child to learn reading and learning sounds, then I found your programme on the internet, which I have found extremely helpful. I really like it because it breaks down reading and decoding sounds into most basic steps, and children learn them step by step logically. I must admit that I cannot always make it fun for Oscar, but his reading ability has improved dramatically and his pronunciation issues almost gone - in the end, the speech therapist said actually Oscar does not need to have any practice session because he can now say all the sounds correctly. He has also gone up to the highest level in his reading books which his school (class) gives him for his homework. A few months ago he was almost at the bottom of his class in his reading but now has gone up so much.

At the moment, Oscar is still doing lesson 4, Stage 2 on your reading programme. Because he is already 5, he has learnt some phonics previously in his school, but was still good to review in your lessons. He still needs to learn a lot more but I am extremely pleased with his improvement so far, thanks to your programme. We will continue it, and update you with his further progress."

Thank you very much and kind regards,

- N. F. Great Britain -

"Your program is brilliant. I will recommend it to other parents who are struggling to teach their children how to read."

- Maria Casil -

I like how each of your lessons build on the prior one. It is logical and makes a lot of sense to me. It seems to be working well with the children, and I am really enjoying working through your program.

Three of the children I care for are doing really well with the program. And a fourth one begun to make more progress. They are picking up lots of words and sounds from all around the environment.

- Kelly Richards -

I have just started the program & my little boy is really enjoying it. It is quite clear that this is supporting him with his pre-school work.

Thanks very much for this.

Kind Regards,

- Helen Chalkley -

It's so impressive to see the progress my daughter has made over the last month. I will try send a video once she has made even more progress. :) Reading is now her favorite activity!

Thank you for the program :)

- Janee de Kok -

"Your books are a must read for any parent who wants to teach their children to read."

Hi Jim, I'm a single mother of 3, my two older boys are 11 and 9, and can read quite well. My youngest daughter is a little over 4 years old when I came across your program. We've almost completed your entire program with just a few lessons left in stage 2, and I am so pleased to tell you that your program is simply fantastic! Tam is turning 5 soon, and she has learned to read before turning 5!

Your books are a must read for any parent who wants to teach their children to read. I only wish that I could've found your program sooner for my older boys. The wonderful thing is that my older boys took a real interest in helping their younger sister learn to read, and during the process of helping me teach Tam to read, the older boys seemed to improve their reading skills as well. Reading books together is one of the favorite things my children like to do now. Thank you for everything.

- Tina, BC. Canada -