Winning Solutions for Struggling Readers and Spellers: Simple Sound, Letter and Syllable Lessons for 2nd grade through High School For Homeschool, Ele

"Winning Solutions for Struggling Readers and Spellers" is written for non-professional educators but contains valuable resources for the professional educator too. It walks the professional or non-professional through a process for improving literacy the author has used successfully. The book is a step by step guide for reviewing student reading and spelling strengths and weaknesses. It then outlines a process using the information collected from your students own reading and writing to improve their reading fluency and spelling accuracy. It has informal assessments for reviewing reading rate, reading accuracy and spelling accuracy in authentic, original student writing samples, word level spelling tests to find out which sounds are the most difficult for a student to match to letters, spelling tests to sample phonic rule application when reading and spelling, and an informal assessment to find out if the student has basic phonemic awareness skills. You will use this information to follow step by step lesson guides. Strategies for challenges and suggestions for how to use the materials for both virtual and in-person instruction are included. It is an expanded edition to "20 Minute Phonemic Training for Dyslexia, Auditory Processing and Spelling." "Winning Solutions for Struggling Readers and Spellers" now has

• informal assessments for phonemic awareness
• 3 informal spelling word lists for sampling phonic rule understanding and sound to letter matching
• step by step guides to find out what your child needs to learn
• a step-by-step guide for planning and organizing personalized lessons
• 160 lists of real words chained together in groups of 10 with only one sound change between each word
• 4 levels of syllables - simple with only short vowels, simple with long and short vowels, and complex with beginning blends, complex with ending blends
• over 400 multiple syllable words with suffix endings and their meanings
• over 2400 words
• multiple syllable word reading, spelling lessons and strategies.
• materials and guide for repeated reading process to increase reading rate and accuracy
• 5 leveled reading stories numbered for the instructor ease of use and student copies for practice
• answer pages for all wordlists
• photocopy permission for all student materials
• sample IEP goals and objectives
• glossary of terms and unfamiliar words in the word lists
• student worksheets
• phonic rule posters and cards
• links to supporting research articles in the bibliography
• private links to video demonstrations of strategies discussed