You Can Help Students to Improve Reading Skills
You can become a Certified Reading Tutor to help children in your home, community or schools to improve their reading, writing, spelling and comprehension.
You may use our online digital reading materials or our Reading Voyages Instructional Workbook to tutor your students.
The Essence of Phonics Reading Instruction (Phonics Summary) - The essence of what you need to know to teach phonics instruction can be expressed "on the back of an envelope". For parents who may not understand phonics reading instruction is, this may give them confidence they can teach it. - By Dr. Patrick Groff NRRF Board Member (National Right Read Foundation)
Students and Tutors Need to Learn
- Letters of the alphabet represent the sounds of speech.
- The "short" vowel sounds are: a e i o u a as in at; e as in elf; i as in it; o as in odd;
- Attaching short vowels to consonant sounds makes /ab-eb-ib-ob-ub/, or /ba-be-bi-bo-bu/, or /bat-bet-bit-bot-but/, or /fast-rest-fist-cost-must, or /brag-bled-drip-stop-drum/, or /grand-blend-brisk-frost-crust/ u as in up
- The "long" vowel sounds are: a as in game; e as in Pete; I as in pine; o as in home; u as in cute The long vowels also are spelled with two joined letters: fail, play; seen, leaf; die; boat
- The diphthongs are /oi/ as in oil or boy, and /ou/ as in howl or out.
- Two other important vowels sounds are /oo/ in foot, and in boot.
- Long vowels, diphthongs, and /oo/ and / / attached to consonant sounds make up many words (the same way short vowels do).
- Some consonant sounds are spelled with joined letters: /ch/ as in chant; /kw/ in quack; /sh/ in shop; /th/ in this
- Some speech sounds in words are not spelled according to the above phonics rules: angel; vary, care, hair; be; myth, prince, fence; find, night, by; arm, salt, cough; union; both, know; truth, who, rude, new; put. Some words have "silent" letters: comb, write, bubble, middle, cuff, full, common, connect, poppy, tarry, miss, butter, buzz.
- All words are sounded-out left-to-right when phonics information is applied to them.
You will receive a Certificate of Achievement when you successfully complete your tutorial training.
Reading Solutions Inc.
https://readingsolutionsinc.com/
