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1234 Read: The Phonics Counterpart

by Allan Forst Geimer

157 pages; Black coil; catalogue #05-2784; ISBN 1-4120-7886-5; US$27.95, C$32.14, EUR22.96, £16.07

1234 Read: The Phonics Counterpart is a complete basic course to teach reading with teaching aids and activities while learning the most used non-phonetic and phonetic words first.

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The best way to learn to read is phonics. But there needs to be a better way to teach common NON-Phonetic words. We developed a counterpart to phonics by analyzing the usage of all the words in the English language to see which words are used most frequently. We found that 1,576 words are used 62% of the time. Teaching phonics while learning the 1,576 most common words first makes learning to read more effective.

1234 Read: The Phonics Counterpart can help you with phonics and non-phonetic words, give you a clear path to follow to teach reading and give you the satisfaction and sense of accomplishment that comes with giving anyone, of almost any age, the ability to learn to read.

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The author, Allan Geimer, is a retired naval aviation commander with over twenty years in the intelligence field. In military intelligence, code breakers often use word patterns, trends and frequency of usage to break enemy codes. This reminded me of my years prior to serving in the military," said Mr. Geimer, "when I was a teacher in a one room school house. In that school we used flashcards to teach parts of the language like adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and articles but not nouns.

"We taught the exceptions and the unique, which make up a much smaller part of language. There were no flashcards for nouns, which make up the larger part of language, because those are easily learned in daily usage. You can show pictures of dogs, cats and toys and then connect the objects with the words that represent them.

"It became clear to me that reading is a kind of code and that phonics was an ingeniously simple way to break that code. It also became clear that interconnect words often do not follow the simple phonics rules. So the question became 'How do we teach phonics and take into account the non-phonetic parts of language?'

"I realized a phonics counterpart was needed, not just for interconnect words, but for the indispensable and essential words that make up almost half of the most commonly used words in the English language. The words that establish trends, show patterns and are used most frequently need to be extracted from the clutter. By doing this, the reading code can be simplified and broken by almost anyone.

"Schools today have flashcards for everything. This works well for a lot of students. In discussing this method with my sister (who helped me tremendously with this book), she revealed that she used current methods with most of her students.

"But for her students who were reading and writing poorly she went back to the country school method. She taught them by using flashcards with only interconnect, indispensable and essential words. She focused on the core factors of reading and her student's results improved dramatically."

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