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Just two, thirty-minute sessions of Sound Reading added weekly to your reading program dramatically improves comprehension, fluency, decoding and spelling.

The most important and overlooked aspect of reading is that print activates our inner voice, tapping into the power of speech. Reading is a special receptive (listening) language activity. In conversation, we translate speech into meaningful language.

As we listen, we decode and identify meaningful words effortlessly. The same is true when we read. Brain research clearly shows that fluent readers use the same brain pathways to read as they do to understand conversation. Fundamental changes in our understanding of how children acquire reading skills identify new ways to teach students to read.

Sound Reading's innovative methods heighten speech and language abilities for literacy success. Print- to-speech literacy instruction builds a solid foundation, ensuring that all students read well. Turn struggling students into sustained silent readers.

Each Sound Reading System gives your student the skills they need to learn to read with ease and

confidence.

Students don’t just learn to read,
They learn how to be proficient readers.

Eighty-seven students in rural Newfield (N.Y.) Elementary school took part in a six month whole class Sound Reading Improvement and Intervention. Their teachers were concerned about their students’ low test scores and poor decoding and fluency.

The results were quite positive, not only did students show progress just after the intervention; they continued to show improvement when tested two years later.

Recent research shows:

Developing phonemic awareness requires the strengthening of specific auditory skills, including auditory attention and memory.

Phoneme discrimination, targeting English’s many confusing vowels, rivals phonemic awareness in importance, especially for students who speak non-standard variations of English.

Older students need far more than traditional phoneme blending and segmentation skills if they are to read English, with its incredibly complex phonology and orthography.

Students who know phonics but continue to struggle to read benefit from phonological recoding practice, which is the key link between spoken and written words.

Decoding instruction without fluency development has very little effect on reading scores.

Rapid naming practice is an essential component of fluency development.

Higher-level comprehension skills and strategies are dependent on specific receptive (listening) language skills.

How do we make learning to read easier? By strengthening speech and language foundations and linking spoken words to written words. Your students will find Sound Reading activities easy and enjoyable. Sound Reading uses Cognitive Learning techniques (the fastest and easiest way to learn). Maximize memory and learning with:

Reduced Error Instruction: Material learned with few errors is memorized correctly. Sound Reading enhances memory by reducing incorrect responses; thus, it eliminates the self-reinforcement of errors. Instead of struggling, your student will find Sound Reading quite easy.

Distributed Instruction: Sometimes called spiral instruction, distributed instruction spreads out learning tasks. As a result, students master material indefinitely rather than temporarily.

Over learning/Automaticity: For long-term learning, students need continued practice beyond the mastery stages, or over-learning. The deepest reading occurs when students are reading automatically. Sound Reading Solutions™ provides practice until the process becomes “too easy”.

Independent Instructional Level: Many students will find Sound Reading “too easy,” difficult for only the most challenged readers.

Sound Reading is designed so that learners function at an independent instructional level, where the student is highly successful. Reading improvement is like reading itself: when it is easy, and not frustrating, student performance is accelerated.

Auditory Interaction: Reading is a receptive (listening) language process. Sound Reading Solutions™ is intensely auditory, heightening the language processes that are the key to literacy.

This is the Sound Reading Solution!

“I really like the variety of tasks in Sound Reading. It is easy to follow, the hands-on activities and they really pick up the skills they need for reading in a fun, positive manner.”

Sheryl Stone

Pine Lake Elementary

West Bloomfield, Michigan

"I feel that Sound Reading is the most exciting and powerful teaching tool I have used in my many years of teaching.”

Sue Doyle

Clyde-Savannah Schools

Clyde, New York

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