Phonics for Beginners: Learn to Read with Letters, Sounds and Sight Words App Bundle 4+

“As a world leading reading researcher with over 25 years of clinical experience, I feel that Reading Doctor provides a leading-edge approach to treating dyslexia and reading difficulties, and to teaching beginning readers core reading skills. Reading Doctor is firmly based on current reading science and offers the potential to ameliorate the intrinsic, underlying issues preventing students with reading difficulties from improving their reading skills. In my opinion, in terms of software-based reading improvement programs for students learning to read, Reading Doctor is unsurpassed in the world at this time.”
— Dr. Jenny Harasty, PhD, Leading Neuroscientist, Speech Language Pathologist and Hon Senior Research Fellow.

Designed by speech-language pathologist and reading development expert Dr. Bartek Rajkowski, PhD, Reading Doctor® Software is being described by educators as a breakthrough in teaching children to read and spell. Our computer software and tablet apps strengthen skills found through research to be crucial in helping students of all ages to improve their literacy skills. This app bundle contains three teaching tools that will help you to teach your child / student to:

1) Learn the speech sounds that individual letters typically represent in written English

2) Learn how to use those letter-sound relationships to read beginning words with consistent letter-sound patterns (such as 'hat, spot and frog')

and

3) Learn to recognise and understand the meaning of the 200 most common words in written English


Here is some more information about each app that is included in the bundle:


WHAT IS LETTER SOUNDS™ 1 PRO?

Understanding that letters typically represent certain speech sounds poses a challenge to beginning readers since there is no meaningful relationship between the way that letters look and the speech sounds they typically represent. For example, there is no reason why the squiggle “s” represents the sound /s/ as in “sun”. Children must also learn to distinguish between similar letters and sounds (e.g. “b” vs “d”) when learning letter-sound patterns. Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro uses a patent pending, self-adjusting, multisensory teaching method to help teach beginning and struggling readers to rapidly, automatically and accurately recognise and discriminate between the most common letter-sound patterns in English. Children are taught meaningful associations between the way that letters look and the speech sounds they typically represent through a unique system of visual, auditory and articulatory (speech sound) memory aids, or mnemonics. The teaching system in the app automatically identifies what a child knows, what the child does not know, and which letter-sound patterns the child confuses. The app is fully customisable: you can choose which letter-sounds to teach and adjust the level of support given to the student.


WHAT IS BLENDING SOUNDS™ 1 PRO?

Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro helps beginning and struggling readers to use letter-sound knowledge to read words by blending (joining) speech sounds together. Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro helps students to develop phonemic awareness and to use letter-sound knowledge to decode and recognise simple words. The teaching system automatically identifies what a child knows, what the child does not know, and which words the student confuses. The app includes a large library of CVC, CCVC and CVCC words and is fully customisable, making it easy to set up custom activities to teach students to read specific word types (such as words ending in -at, or words beginning with st-).


WHAT IS SIGHT WORDS 1 PRO?

Sight Words 1 Pro helps you to teach students who are learning to read and spell to automatically recognise and understand the 200 most common words in English. The app uses a unique, highly effective teaching method to improve word recognition, reading fluency and vocabulary knowledge. The app is fully customisable and a perfect complement to any phonics program.