A step by step workbook which teaches the Phono-Graphix reading method. The book is comprehensive - giving teaching materials and pupil exercises - and practical, illustrating problems that may occur and how to deal with them. Carmen McGuinness is meeting John Stannard (Head of National Literacy Strategy) and Michael Barber (Head of Schools Effectiveness Unit) to demonstrate their method. 'A sparklingly-clear guide to teaching reading ... READING REFLEX is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to teach reading at home or in the classroom' Daily Telegraph

 

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 368 pages in this book. This book was published 1998 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Carmen and Geoffrey McGuinness live in Florida. Geoffrey McGuinness was born and educated in Britain and therefore has the knowledge of British education methods and pronunciation. Carmen is American but worked for 12 years as a Montessori school teacher which gives her the ideal classroom experience.

This book has the following chapters: Reading explained; getting started; teaching the basic code; adjacent consonant sounds; teaching the advanced code; multisyllable management.