Letter Sounds Save Their Soul: Book 3

Of all the teaching to read methods, Black children’s reading scores often excel national averages when first taught to read using Direct Instruction. Offering step-by-step illustrations, this reading primer series demonstrates a back to basics learning to read system called direct instruction which teaches readers how to attach meaning to letter sounds, as they learn to sound out words. The root or foundation sounds of the 26 letters of the alphabet are broken up into 4 primary categories and presented in great detail within the pages of Books 1 – 3. All other letter-sound possibilities are covered within advanced phonics (decoding) training and are available in Books 4 – 5. Book 3: In addition to teaching how to sound out the remaining two letter sounds categories of the alphabet, book three consist of summary, review and reading practice exercises of all skills learned in books one and two, plus much much more! BREATH-AIR LETTER SOUNDS Breath air sounds, as the name implies consist of letters that do not make an actual sounds, but instead these 3 letters feel and sound like air or wind; these sounds are produced by pushing or blowing out air from the back of the throat. QUICKY2 LETTER SOUNDS Quicky2 letters sounds are the only 2 letters of the alphabet that make 2 very quick but different sounds. The first sound quickly bounces and then automatically slides into the second sound. These two sounds are said so fast they almost sound like one. Why do Blacks thrive when taught Direct Instruction? Author Vanessa Peters’ suggest it’s because of their sense of rhythm. By tapping into their natural ability to connect rhythm and sounds, direct instruction teaches minority children how to hear, manipulate and identify the smallest unit of letter sounds and naturally connect those sounds into the process of reading fluently. Tragically for minority students rarely are new teachers trained in direct instruction. Instead during their college years, training is focused on popular research studies and opinions of biased experts who discredit the necessity and success of direct instruction for African Americans children. The Letter Sounds Save Their Soul reading primer series show parents and guardians how to STOP the practice of turning children into illiteracy statistics.