A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit
A Reading Tutor’s Toolkit is the definitive, most comprehensive textbook for instructors and parents who want to help struggling children advance in their reading skills. Learn how to analyze a student’s reading level, create a reading inventory for the child, understand the root causes of common reading errors, and work through exercises that will help the child unlearn bad habits.
From word use to cause and effect, reading inventories will tell you exactly where students are struggling. Once you zero in on the problem areas, you’ll use the lessons and activities to improve the child’s skills and develop a reading-level report. Book available on Amazon.
Where is That Vowel?
Where is that Vowel? is a methodical list of 5000 words arranged by phonetic building blocks. The book provides hundres of single-syllabled words containing twenty-four vowel spellings: short and long sounding vowels, modified vowels, long and short oo sounds, aw, au, al. ou, ow, oi and oy.
The words are arranged in building-block format adding consonant combiations to the short vowel intially, then following the progression above. The book also contains vowel diacritics comparisions, lists of uncommonly used words to build phonetic principles, combination of syngle syllables into compound words without requiring the introduction of syllabication. Definitions, parts of speech and usage exercises are provided. Book available on Amazon.