Professor Phonics Gives Sound Advice

PROFESSOR PHONICS GIVES SOUND ADVICE, the primary book, is unique in that it has the only totally organized phonics system. All of the consonant sounds are taught around four categories of vowels. It is so streamlined that all 42 basic sounds are taught on 23 pages interspersed with practice pages. Sounds arranged in more difficult spelling patterns follow. A SOUND TRACK TO READING has exactly the same format but starts with two-syllable words. All the basic sounds are taught on 14 pages. This advanced book is geared for intermediate grades & up. Phonics is NOT reading. It is reading's only sure foundation for unlocking unknown words. The system also contains 38 PICTURE KEY WORD CARDS, MANUALS & a SPELLING WORD LIST. At the end of the year, first graders can spell 1500 words without memorizing. Taking regular spelling first helps greatly. The ten percent of non-phonetic words then fall into place. Systematic, intensive phonics should be taught first & fast before sight words are introduced because all one does is slide sounds together. Anyone can teach another to read in this manner if one has an organized system. As Mary Pride says in her New Big Book Of Home Learning, "The program author really knows her stuff."Fohzer, Monica is the author of 'Professor Phonics Gives Sound Advice', published 1990 under ISBN 9780960791804 and ISBN 0960791809.