Easyread - a new approach that combines
the best of phonics and the real books philosophy

Introduction

We have quite a lot of information around the site about Easyread. So this is just a comparison with the other main approaches to literacy.

Easyread is absolutely grounded in Synthetic Phonics. But our TrainerText system allows us to achieve the aims of Real Books teaching.

Easyread exercises the learner's ability to detect the individual phonemes within a word. That is fundamental to any successful phonic system. We do that using very strong visual imagery, to respresent each phoneme in the language. All humans have a strong visual memory and so we play into that strength. Most children can remember 90% of our images for each phoneme after just one presentation.

We then exercise the learner's ability to blend these phonemes into words. This is done with our TrainerText which always allows the learner to see the phonemes in the word:

That means that the irregular words can be decoded as well as the regular ones.

Now the child has the tools needed to decode any word. So Easyread switches to delivery of carefully measured doses of daily text. It amazes some people that we can get results in just 5-10 minutes a day. But a short period of genuine and successful reading have much more value than 30 minutes of struggle.

So, once the foundation course is completed, we move to delivery of stories day by day (ie in a Real Books way). Over our 6 month course a child will read 25,000 words. That is what teaches the learner how to read.

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