Reading For Sure
THE 'PROVEN SYSTEM' FOR READING ENGLISH
It’s about taking care of children who are not learning to read the language they speak. It’s about helping children, the majority of whom are intelligent, wise, talkative, competent in sport and in practical activities but who have difficulty reading words which they constantly use in their speaking vocabulary. These children have a reading problem which they don’t understand. They see that many of their friends by year three in school have no difficulty reading.
Reading for Sure is about helping children learn to read after other attempts to teach reading to them have failed. Reading for Sure is not just another remedial reading method. It is a comprehensive literary teaching system based on learning to read English through understanding the speech sounds in English pronunciation.
It’s about Ross who at the age of twelve has been told that he will never read and he had better concentrate on sport which he is good at. During Ross’s assessment it was found that he was one of a growing number of children in Australia with the severe reading disorder known as dyslexia. Teaching students with dyslexia is no easy task whether attempted as literacy teaching or remedial reading. For the teacher, it is a question of assessing the cause of the reading problem, and of knowing the processes which the brain uses when children learn to read.
Reading for Sure can teach reading to the student with a reading problem including students with dyslexia, by a unique method which eliminates the confusion in English pronunciation and spelling. This is done by marking printed text with a code for the correct English pronunciation of the word. In most cases the student learning to read will show instant improvement and the reading problem will disappear while the English pronunciation code is being used. This enables the student to learn to read by actually reading. Children learn to read by reading and by increased familiarity with printed text. Depending on the amount of practice, the student gradually finds that they can read automatically without the assistance of the English pronunciation marks. Students with dyslexia make take longer. Reading for Sure has demonstrated with these students, including Ross, that it is possible to teach reading to the student who has believed reading was impossible.
To teach reading with the Reading for Sure programme, an accreditation course is offered through World Literacy International. Click on Providers for more information on how to teach reading with Reading for Sure.
After more than 18 years of achievement, the Reading For Sure tutors have gained a wealth of experience in helping readers of all ages.