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The 8 Critical Lessons About Teaching Reading

Lesson One: it is important to teach each step thoroughly
2 exercises a day of 10 minutes is ideal

Lesson Two: It’s not necessary for the student to know the ABC’s in order until later
Once the teacher ‘feels’ absolutely sure that the student knows the letter sounds thoroughly, then she/he can proceed to tell the student the name also

Lesson Three: Never tell the student a word in the phonics lesson
The student will be learning 1 sound at a time and it won’t be difficult if the sound is thoroughly learned

Lesson Four: Encourage your students to wisper the sounds to themselves
It takes several months for the student to be able to blend the sounds mentally

Lesson Five: Don’t use diacritical marks
Students are taught to determine the vowel by it’s position in the word and by its associated letters. If you use the methods presented in my course, the student will gain immediate mastery of a word and the word family regardless of where they may find them

Lesson Six: When a word occurs in a reading lesson that does not follow a rule, like have, give, etc.
And your student pronounces it incorrectly, tell him there is something wrong with the vowel. He will immediately correct it and learn to expect exceptions.

Lesson Seven: When your students have a few weeks writing the words, start spelling
write a family name such as at in a column and then ask them to pronounce the family words like cat, sat, bat, fat, hat, mat, rat, pat, sat, etc. Then pronounce the words and let the children write it out as it is pronounced. This ability to recognize the words as they are sound shortens the process of word recognition. It serves to impress phonics principles in their mind, making spelling a matter of reasoning. 😉

Lesson Eight: The student should be taught to look over spelling lesson, when you assign words that are made up of different families, and there are “red flags”
For example, if you give a spelling lesson of ten words and 7 of the words are strictly phonetic; it can be governed by phonetic principles and be spelled by sound, then tbe student does not need to waste time on these. But the last 3 are unphonetic, so you make the student study those 3 exceptions 😉 

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