Aid and method for remedial reading instruction

摘要

A method for teaching word recognition in a course of reading instruction in which a student is taught to identify letters of the alphabet, to identify letters as being vowels or consonants and to recognize that combinations of letters and vowels form syllables. The method is based upon the student's recognition of the following voewl (V) and consonant (C) syllable patterns: V; CV; VC; CVC; CVV; and CVCE. A set of cards is provided with each card within the set bearing a syllable having a vowel or a combination of one or more consonants with one or more vowels arranged according to one or more of the syllable patterns. The student is instructed to select the card from the set which corresponds in sound with the first syllable of a selected word until the assembled cards define a selected word. The student is further instructed to apply a long sound or a short sound to each vowel or to treat a vowel as being silent according to its position relative to a consonant or to another vowel as follows: V; CV; VC; CVC; CV; and CVC, wherein V indicates a long sound value, V indicates a short sound value, and V, E indicate silent value.