Each child is an individual. There are varied reasons for why a child may struggle with sounds and letters. Winning Solutions for Struggling Readers and Spellers includes step by step directions for studying your child's reading and spelling errors, so you know why they are not learning to read and spell.
You can take the worry out of teaching your child to read smoothly with few mistakes.
Watch your child's confidence grow as reading gets easier. With "Winning Solutions for Struggling Readers and Spellers" kids learn how sounds and letters work together to form words.
Discover exactly what your students need to learn. You will not waste time on what they already know. With the included assessments and step by step directions, you know what your student needs and which lessons to teach.
There are six different phonemic awareness skills children need to read and spell fluently and accurately. "Winning Solutions for Struggling Readers and Spellers" has assessments to locate which phonemic awareness skills your student needs to improve, and strategies to help you teach those skills. Each 20-minute lesson includes all six skills, but lessons are designed so you will only teach the skills they need.
Use your child's reading and spelling samples to choose from several scripted lessons.
Is blending sounds together a problem? Follow the script to teach them how.
Do they leave letters for sounds out of words? Do they only 'hear' some of the sounds in words? Follow the script to show them how to segment, insert and delete sounds in words.
Are the letters and sounds jumbled out of order when they read and write? Use the script for sequencing, inserting, and deleting sounds.
Do they confuse vowel sounds and letters? There are strategies to help them tell the differences between vowel sounds.
No matter what stage of reading your child has reached, there are wordlists to match your child's need. Whether they cannot read any words, or they are struggling to read and spell long words, you will find ideas, scripts, and word lists for your child's stage of reading.
When your child is missing phonemic awareness skills, phonic rules will not make sense. Lessons and strategies for teaching phonics are included. Start your child's lessons at THEIR level. Choose lists to match the sounds and syllable or word lengths they need. The book guides your journey - it does not dictate it.
The wordlists and routine build upon your child's strengths in bite sized increments.
You will:

1. learn how to know which skills and sounds are confusing your child and what to teach.
2. follow simple, step-by-step directions to teach kids how to sound out words.
3. follow lesson scripts for how to separate sounds to spell words correctly.
4. have an easy-to-follow system that takes little preparation.
5. use a simple, 20-minute routine that builds on the child's strengths.
6. learn how to teach kids to listen and think about how sounds make words.
7. learn how to show kids to feel, hear and see sounds in words.
8. learn how to teach reading, writing, and spelling at the same time.
9. learn how to choose the word lists that will benefit your child from a wide selection of lists.
10. learn a straightforward way to teach kids to read and spell long words with the included worksheets.
11. follow a script using repeated reading and the five leveled realistic stories to help your child read faster with fewer mistakes.

Watch your child engage, build confidence, and achieve grade level reading and spelling skills.