Start with 7 and End with All

Start with 7 and End with All

There is no law which says that we cannot teach reading with only a few letters at a time. The lessons in these books start with seven letters combined to form simple words.

New letters are introduced gradually and the reader “touches base” at near the end of the book with the letter Z. There is an average of 200 days in a school year to master the 180 pages of the manual..

Word recognition is strengthened by the repetition of already learned words. New words are formed from out of the letters which are introduced on a staggered basis -to avoid confusion of shapes, forms and sounds.

The process is repeated in succeeding pages and gradually on to the next pages by the use of simple words and sentence patterns. The texts are also springboards for discussion.

Reading is nothing more than making sense of the letters mixed to form words. This is an abstract process which occurs in the mind. The number of letters in the word does not matter, for as long as this can be read, and its meaning understood. The present practice of teaching reading is to make the child memorize all the 26 letters of alphabet all at one time. The words introduced to the beginning reader are within the wide range of the alphabet.

Note that the letters “b” and “d”, and “m” and “w”, “p” or “q” would cause confusion. Letters like “a” and “e” are pronounced differently depending on their word placements. The “e” in the word name is not even pronounced at all.” Why overburden the reader with these strange configurations of letters formed into words?