(Ebook) From Phonics to Reading Level A Teacher's Edition by Wiley Blevins ISBN 9780961669126, 9781421715513, 0961669128, 1421715511

(Ebook) From Phonics to Reading Level A Teacher's Edition by Wiley Blevins ISBN 9780961669126, 9781421715513, 0961669128, 1421715511

In vertical phonics all the sounds of each letter or key letter combination (i.e. "phonogram", see page 5) are taught at one time. The most often occurring sound is taught as that phonogram's "first sound."Saltmine is an acronym of the first eight phonograms and Hifwip stands for “High Frequency Words in Print.” The phonograms have been chosen so children learn first the combinations that occur most frequently in the 3,000 most often occurring words in print. By the time they learn the twentieth phonogram a child can decode most of what they will see in print in their lifetime. The 68 phonograms and 12 simple rules integrated with the daily word lists allow a child to read all the most frequently occurring words and decode any other English word.The 8 sets of word lists are chosen from the most often occurring words in print. By the time a child has completed the course they will know 837 of the words encountered most frequently. Developing the phonogram and word lists in this way leaves less than 3% of the most often occurring words in print as “irregular” and every exception is included in the eight word sets. As far as we know, this is lowest percentage of irregular words in any available phonics program, and the only one that teaches the irregular words as part of the learned word lists.