This page tells you what it is like for your new or struggling readers. Tips are given so that you can maake the time spent with your reader more enjoyable and more productive. Separate instructions are provided for the beginning or the struggling reader. Most parents want to help their children, but simply do not know how to. The Learning Pyramid's step by step framework makes it easy.
Students receive a strong foundation in phonics which is lacking in some schools today.
By removing phonics from school education, a reader must memorize words for reading and spelling versus applying the formula for phonetic patterns of the English Language. For some children, this is never accomplished. By mastering a few phonic rules, students become improved readers and spellers. Phonics gives the reader a formula for sounding out and unscrambling unfamiliar words with phonetic patterns. Phonics is the association of letters with their appropriate speech sounds.