Cultivating Reading and Phonics Skills, 1st Grade - 3rd Grade: An Instruction Manual for Teachers and Parents of Children with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, ADHD, and Other Learning Challenges

by Laurie Hunter

Cultivating Reading and Phonics Skills is an instruction manual and reading program that combines phonics with phonological awareness, spelling, and handwriting activities.

This reading program is appropriate for
Beginning readers
Older students who are learning to read
Students reading below grade-level and struggling with decoding and/or reading fluency
Students who have dyslexia, ADHD, dysgraphia, orthographic processing challenges, and autism
English language learners.

What makes this reading program better than others?
Previous experience is not required with this method because teachers, tutors, and parents will learn along with the student(s). So, instructors do not have to be reading specialists to use this instruction manual. Phonics rules are explained using the most simplified manner.
This reading intervention can be used in Special Education classrooms, Gifted and Talented programs, tutoring programs, homeschool classrooms, and small groups in general education classrooms.
Current reading programs contain an overwhelming amount of content. This manual takes into consideration the time constraints and emotional needs of struggling students, parents, and teachers. This book contains the most essential information, strategies, and techniques that will have the most significant impact on your child(ren).
This method of teaching phonics does not conflict with other reading programs your student may be receiving. This phonics program can be provided simultaneously with other reading interventions.

Students are systematically introduced to phonics patterns with “Listen for the Sounds” activities and create their own deck of 3-D Flash Cards. Students and instructors link each phonic spelling pattern to its corresponding sound, keyword, and visual. Each spelling and handwriting activity in this book mirrors the phonic patterns students are learning to build their relationships with letters. This helps students and instructors distinguish similar and different sounds and letters and anchors phonics patterns to their corresponding sounds. This book teaches three blending techniques that help new readers blend the letter sounds to read words. You’ll also learn how other engaging multisensory activities such as searching for and highlighting phonics patterns, a spelling phonic mapping technique, and more. This manual includes phonics stories that build character, self-esteem, confidence, and interest in reading.

The phonics storybooks with illustrations and 3-D visual aids are optional and sold separately.
Phonics Stories, Short Vowels - Level 1
Phonics Stories, Long Vowels - Level 2
Phonics Stories, The Other Vowel Sounds - Level 3
Phonics Stories, Advanced Long and Short Vowel Patterns - Level 4

260 pages, Paperback

Published December 9, 2020

About the author

Laurie Hunter, M.Ed., has worked with hundreds of struggling kids, teens, and their families since 2005 as a private academic intervention teacher and mentor. With a master’s degree in education, specializing in Learning Disabilities and Behavioral Disorders, from The University of Texas at Austin, she has also served as a long-term substitute classroom teacher and PTA president. Laurie is a mother of three adult children, including twin sons with dyslexia and a daughter with ADHD, who all graduated from Texas State University. Laurie's goal is to empower parents and teachers to connect with children of all abilities, as well as the joys of teaching and parenting.

Reviews

[Laurie Hunter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an instructional manual for teachers, parents, and tutors who want to teach their students, child, or teen how to read or to become more proficient readers. No reading instruction experience is required because the instructor can learn along with the student. Cultivating Reading and Phonics Skills is intended for students of all abilities and can be used with children and teens who are English Language Learners or have dyslexia, ADHD, autism, orthographic processing challenges, and other learning differences. This instruction manual and reading program systematically introduces phonics patterns and combines phonics with phonological awareness, spelling, and handwriting activities. It teaches blending techniques and phonic mapping techniques. It includes stories that build character, self-esteem, confidence, and interest in reading.

The stories with illustrations are optional and sold separately.
Phonics Stories - Short Vowels - Level 1
Phonics Stories - Long Vowels - Level 2
Phonics Stories - The Other Vowel Sounds - Level 3