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WHAT IS SPELLING SOUNDS™ 1 PRO?Spelling Sounds™ 1 Pro helps beginning and struggling readers tolearn to spell. It is a fun, effective and scientifically basedteaching tool that helps you to teach students to segment (breakup) words into speech sounds and to then spell them usingletter-sound knowledge. The app uses a unique teaching system thatautomatically identifies what a child knows, what the child doesnot know, and which words the student finds difficult.Spelling Sounds™ 1 Pro includes a large library of CVC, CCVC andCVCC words (such as "cat, spot" and "lost") and is fullycustomisable, making it easy to set up custom activities to teachstudents to read specific word types (such as words ending in -at,or words beginning with st-). While the app is designed to be ableto be used independently, it is a perfect complement to ourflagship program, Reading Sounds™ 1 Pro.WHY IS THE ABILITY TO BREAK WORDS UP INTO SPEECH SOUNDS WHENSPELLING IMPORTANT?Skilled spellers are good at understanding that words are made upof speech sounds (a skill called phonemic awareness). They are alsogood at understanding how these speech sounds are represented byletters in words. These skills help children to spell wordssuccessfully because understanding how letters usually representthe way we say words gives children an advantage in understandingour spelling system. Difficulties with these skills are a hallmarkof the struggling speller.HOW DOES SPELLING SOUNDS™ 1 PRO HELP?Spelling Sounds™ 1 Pro uses a patent pending, self-adjusting,multisensory teaching method to help teach beginning and strugglingspellers to use letter-sound knowledge to spell simple words withdirect letter-sound patterns, such as "cat, stop" and "lost". Theteaching system automatically identifies what a child knows, whatthe child does not know, and which words the child confuses.Spelling Sounds™ 1 Pro includes a large library of CVC, CCVC andCVCC words. It is fully customisable, making it easy to set upcustom activities to teach students to spell specific word types(such as words ending in -at, or words beginning with st-).WHO SHOULD USE SPELLING SOUNDS™ 1 PRO?Spelling Sounds™ 1 Pro is ideal for helping beginning spellers,students with spelling difficulties and students learning Englishas a second language. It is a perfect complement to any phonicsprogram and is fully customisable. We are confident it will quicklybecome a favourite tool for teachers, parents, literacy specialistsand anybody else with an interest in the teaching of reading andspelling!SUMMARY OF FEATURES- Created by a literacy expert- Scientifically-based- Easy to use- Fun, intuitive and powerful teaching tool- Perfect for children of all ages learning to read English,including students with learning difficulties and students of -English as a second language (ESL)- Patent-pending, adjustable memory-aid system helps studentsremember letter-sound patterns- Create and save custom activities to complement any syntheticphonics program

Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro is a revolutionaryphonics teaching tool which helps beginning readers to use lettersounds to read first words. The program is based on research intoreading acquisition and was developed by Dr. Bartek Rajkowski, PhD,a speech-language pathologist specialising in reading development.Anybody with an interest in teaching children to read can useBlending Sounds™ 1 Pro to help students learn basic decodingskills!PLEASE NOTE:- This app is Australian! US and UK accents coming in the nextupdate- Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro is not just a game - it is a powerful andfully customisable teaching tool. Please take some time toexperiment with it yourself before trying it with studentsWhy is the ability to blend (join) speech sounds when reading soimportant?Skilled readers are good at understanding that words are made up ofspeech sounds (a skill called phonemic awareness) and they are alsogood at understanding how these speech sounds are represented byletters. This knowledge helps children to ‘decode’ unfamiliar wordsby blending (joining) the speech sounds to recognise the word.Difficulties with these skills are a hallmark of the strugglingreader. Furthermore, teaching methods that begin by teachingstudents letter-sound relationships (called ‘synthetic phonics’methods) have been shown through research to be more effective thanother approaches in teaching reading, regardless of whetherstudents do or do not have reading difficulties. The evidence fromthe past several decades of reading research is clear: usingletter-sound knowledge to decode unfamiliar words is crucial inlearning to read, since it helps students to teach themselves newwords.How does Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro help?Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro uses a patent pending, self-adjusting,multisensory teaching method to help teach beginning and strugglingreaders to use letter-sound knowledge to decode and recognisesimple words with direct letter-sound patterns, such as "cat, stop"and "lost". The teaching system automatically identifies what achild knows, what the child does not know, and which words thechild confuses. The app includes a large library of CVC, CCVC andCVCC words and is fully customisable, making it easy to set upcustom activities to teach students to read specific word types(such as words ending in -at, or words beginning with st-).Who should use Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro?Blending Sounds™ 1 Pro is ideal for helping beginning readers,students with reading difficulties and students learning English asa second language. It is a perfect complement to any phonicsprogram and is fully customisable. We are confident it will quicklybecome a favourite tool for teachers, parents, reading difficultyspecialists and anybody else with an interest in the teaching ofreading and spelling!Features- Created by a speech-language pathologist specialising in readingdevelopment- Scientifically-based- Easy to use- Fun, intuitive and powerful teaching tool- Perfect for children learning to read English, including studentswith learning difficulties and students of English as a secondlanguage (ESL)- Patent-pending, adjustable memory-aid system helps studentsremember letter-sound patterns- Create and save custom activities to complement any syntheticphonics approach

Sight Words 1 Pro is a must-have app foranybody teaching students to read and spell! The app makes it easyto teach students who are learning to read and spell toautomatically recognise and understand the 200 most common words inEnglish.Sight Words 1 Pro uses a unique, patent pending, self-adjusting andmultisensory teaching method to improve word recognition andvocabulary knowledge. It was developed by Dr. Bartek Rajkowski,PhD, a speech-language pathologist specialising in readingdevelopment.PLEASE NOTE:- Although students love using it, Sight Words 1 Pro is not just agame - it is a powerful and fully customisable teaching tool.Please take some time to experiment with it yourself before tryingit with students!The past several decades of research have provided conclusiveevidence that competent readers are skilled in using letter-soundknowledge to work out (decode) unfamiliar words when reading.Teaching methods that begin by teaching students letter-soundrelationships (synthetic phonics methods) are known to be superiorto other approaches in teaching reading, regardless of whetherstudents do or do not have reading difficulties. Decoding skillsare crucial for self-teaching, as they may be used to work outregular words (words with regular sound-spelling patterns, such as‘stop’ and ‘flight’) however they are not as useful for learningthe approximately 20% of English words with irregular spellings(words such as ‘who’ and ‘said’).Research suggests that in addition to being taught to decode,students should be explicitly taught to recognise the most commonwords (also called 'sight words' or 'high frequency words'),especially those with irregular spellings. Learning to instantlyrecognise highly frequent words helps students to develop fluencyin reading.Whether you are a teacher, parent or reading specialist, we areconfident that Sight Words 1 Pro will quickly become a favouriteteaching tool. For more information about the program, please seewww.readingdoctor.com.au.Some of the things you can do with SightWords 1 Pro:- Teach sight words through arcade-style games in which you choosewords for the student to practice based on categories such as- Word length (such as all word lengths, 1-2 letter words, 3 letterwords, 4 letter words)- Word frequency (such as 1st 25 most common words, 2nd 25 mostcommon words etc)- Easily create custom sight-words activities where you can quicklyset up activities by choosing from a library of the 200 most commonwords in English- Save custom activities for later use- Choose the number of words to be included in a single game(2-25)- Adjust the number of times students need to correctly identify aword in order for the game tile to be completed- Adjust the level of support given to the student for words (theapp includes auditory word prompts, auditory sentences,illustrations of the meanings of words and visual cues based onword length and shape)Please note: teaching students sight words before they have learntbasic decoding skills is NOT recommended, and not supported byresearch! Teaching sight words should be a complementary strategyto assist the development of fluency as part of a systematic,phonics based method of reading instruction.If you have any questions or need help, please don't hesitate tocontact us!

The evidence from reading research is clear: letter-soundknowledgeis crucial in learning to read and spell, and phonicsbasedapproaches are superior to other types of reading instructioninteaching students to read. However, learning the linksbetweenletter patterns and speech sounds is not easy! LetterSounds™ 2 Proprovides a unique, fun and highly engaging way forstudents of allages to learn the relationships between groups ofletters andspeech sounds for reading and spelling! Letter Sounds™ 2Pro uses apatent pending, highly effective, multisensory teachingmethodwhich is being described by educators as a breakthrough inteachingstudents to read. This method makes it easy to teachstudents torapidly, automatically and accurately recognise the mostcommonletter-sound patterns in English. Letter Sounds™ 2 Prowasdeveloped by reading specialist and speech-language pathologistDr.Bartek Rajkowski, PhD. The program is based on research intotheunderlying mechanisms of reading acquisition and thousands ofhoursof clinical experience in teaching students how to read.PLEASENOTE: - This app is Australian! US and UK accent options willbeadded in the next update! - Although students love using it,LetterSounds™ 2 Pro is not just a game - it is a powerful andfullycustomisable teaching tool. Please take some time toexperimentwith it yourself before trying it with students! Why islearningthe links between speech sounds and the letter patternsthattypically represent them so important? The past several decadesofresearch have provided conclusive evidence that competentreadersare skilled in using letter-sound knowledge to work out(decode)unfamiliar words when reading. Difficulty in understandingthatwords are made up of sounds (a skill called phonemic awareness)andjust how speech sounds are represented by letters are hallmarksofthe struggling reader. Furthermore, teaching methods that beginbyteaching students letter-sound relationships (syntheticphonicsmethods) are known to be superior to other approaches inteachingreading, regardless of whether students do or do not havereadingdifficulties. Understanding that letters typicallyrepresentcertain speech sounds poses a challenge to studentslearning toread since there is no meaningful relationship betweenthe way thatletters and letter patterns look and the speech soundstheytypically represent. For example, there is no reason why theletterpattern “igh” represents the speech sound in the middle ofthe word“night”. Letter Sounds™ 2 Pro makes learning (and teaching)theserelationships easy through its unique game-based teachingmethod!Summary of Features - Created by a reading specialist-Scientifically-based - Easy to use - Fun, intuitive andpowerfulteaching tool - Includes 64 consonant, vowel, r-controlledandcommon suffix letter patterns and their corresponding speechsounds/ articulations - Patent-pending, adjustable memory-aidsystemhelps students remember letter-sound patterns - Create andsavecustom letter-sound pattern sets to complement anysyntheticphonics approach! - Includes preset letter-sound tile setsforpopular synthetic phonics programs Jolly Phonics and MULTILIT-Perfect for beginning readers, older students withreadingdifficulties or students of English as a second language(ESL)Although designed to be used independently, Letter Sounds™ 2Pro isa perfect complement to Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro, which helpsstudentsto learn basic (single letter) letter-sound links. Whetheryou area teacher, parent or reading specialist, we are confidentthatLetter Sounds™ 2 Pro will become a favourite teaching tool!

Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro is a fun, effective and scientificallybasedphonics teaching tool which makes it easy to teach childrenthelinks between the letters of the alphabet and the speechsoundsthey typically represent in written English. Letter Sounds™ 1Prois based on research into reading acquisition and was developedbyreading specialist and speech-language pathologist Dr.BartekRajkowski, PhD. Anybody with an interest in teaching childrentoread through phonics can use Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro to helpchildrenlearn common letter-sound relationships! Letter Sounds™ 1Pro isbased on our flagship program, ReadingSounds® 1 Pro, which isusedin over 1000 Australian schools and is being described byeducatorsas a breakthrough in teaching children how to read. PLEASENOTE: -This app is Australian! US and UK accent options will beadded inthe next update! - Although children love using it, LetterSounds™1 Pro is not just a game - it is a powerful and fullycustomisableteaching tool. Please take some time to experiment withit yourselfbefore trying it with students! Why is letter-soundknowledge soimportant? The past several decades of research haveprovidedconclusive evidence that children who are strong readersareskilled in using letter-sound knowledge to learn new wordswhenreading. Skilled readers are good at understanding that wordsaremade up of speech sounds (a skill called phonemic awareness)andthey are also good at understanding how these speech soundsarerepresented by letters. This knowledge helps children to‘decode’written language and teach themselves new words.Difficulties withthese skills are hallmarks of the strugglingreader. Furthermore,teaching methods that begin by teachingstudents letter-soundrelationships (called ‘synthetic phonics’methods) have been shownthrough research to be more effective thanother approaches inteaching reading, regardless of whether studentsdo or do not havereading difficulties. The evidence is clear:letter-sound knowledgeis crucial in learning to read and spellsince it helps students toteach themselves new words. How doesLetter Sounds™ 1 Pro help?Understanding that letters typicallyrepresent certain speechsounds poses a challenge to beginningreaders since there is nomeaningful relationship between the waythat letters look and thespeech sounds they typically represent.For example, there is noreason why the squiggle “s” represents thesound /s/ as in “sun”.Children must also learn to distinguishbetween similar letters andsounds (e.g. “b” vs “d”) when learningletter-sound patterns.Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro uses a patent pending,self-adjusting,multisensory teaching method to help teach beginningand strugglingreaders to rapidly, automatically and accuratelyrecognise anddiscriminate between the most common letter-soundpatterns inEnglish. Children are taught meaningful associationsbetween theway that letters look and the speech sounds theytypicallyrepresent through a unique system of visual, auditoryandarticulatory (speech sound) memory aids, or mnemonics. Theteachingsystem in the app automatically identifies what a childknows, whatthe child does not know, and which letter-sound patternsthe childconfuses. Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro teaches children todiscriminatebetween confusing patterns, and strengthens weaknessesinletter-sound understanding. Who should use Letter Sounds™ 1Pro?Letter Sounds™ 1 Pro is ideal for helping beginningreaders,students with reading difficulties and students learningEnglish asa second language. It is a perfect complement to anyphonicsprogram and is fully customisable, making it easy to set upcustomactivities to teach students specific letter-sound patterns.We areconfident it will quickly become a favourite tool forteachers,parents, reading specialists and anybody else with aninterest inthe teaching of reading and spelling!