The shocking stats and information only highlight a small fraction of what we have learned through our own research and study. Not surprisingly, after learning about the poor reading performance and literacy skills of students everywhere and discovering the true benefits of learning to read early, we took matters in our own hands.

                Away with the ineffective Television and Computer Programs… We were going to teach our children to read ourselves!

                During this time, I read hundreds of books, magazines, journals, and parsed through thousands of scientific studies… I was obsessed with teaching my children to read and helping them to develop their fullest potential possible. I was determined to find a real solution to teach even young children to read.

                It certainly was not easy. I had so much information; so many methods of teaching how to read; whole language versus phonics; teaching sight words and teaching letter names and sounds; teaching onsets and rhymes: morphemes, graphemes and phonemes; long vowels, short vowels, consonant paragraphs; and rules that will boggle the mind of an adult, let alone small children! It was a mess! A big confusing mess.

                Then I discovered a simple method, “trick” if you will, that worked like a charm for teaching children to read. It took us a little longer than a year to polish, refine, and put together everything we learned based on this new simple, but deadly effective, step-by-step program resulted from our work, and we used it to teach our own children to read…

By: Margarita LSalaria | Teacher III | Limay National High School | Limay, Bataan