D M Baker

The Easier English system can help a parent help their child who struggles with letters and sounds even after years of reading and spelling instruction. Rapid recall of the letter-sound code is a missing foundation in reading instruction. Research shows good readers easily read nonsense like ‘zong’, ‘phoun’, ‘moise’. To read nonsense words quickly, you need fast and accurate recall of English letter sounds. Hear short vowel sounds in the video on this author page and more videos at https://www.youtube.com/channel/ UC5nhnSt3Nkdtsnmv9ZpXKUA. Hear all English sounds in the ebook "Learn English Sounds with Pictures and Audio for Easier Spelling and Reading". D M Baker – aka Doris Baker, co-author of the illustrated tech book "Cryptography Decrypted" – created these videos, ebooks and a paperback coloring book, also picture-based. Silly pictures, like above, make sounds and spelling patterns easier to remember. The author spent more than a decade researching dyslexia through International Dyslexia Association seminars and self-study. To educate her dyslexic son, she used a variety of excellent materials, but they all lacked a simple memorable overview. After much study and use of intensive interventions, she developed this illustrated sound-based system to help struggling readers more easily and quickly master the code. This memorable, inexpensive and reusable series provides lots of practice and review to make letter-sound recall more automatic. The Easier English system takes advantage of a dyslexic strength, episodic memory. Each ebook is an episode of color, letters and sounds baking phonemic information into long-term memory with pictures and silly phrases as hooks to trigger rapid retrieval for spelling and reading. The 42 imaginative pictures in "Overcoming Dyslexia with Pictures for Easier Spelling and Reading" and "Learn English Sounds with Pictures and Audio for Easier Spelling and Reading" reinforce all English sounds in the "Easier English for Dyslexics" series. Once you can easily say all the sounds, you’re ready to examine spelling patterns for each sound. Review spelling patterns with the overview in "Easier English for Dyslexics 1", an illustrated alphabetized listing of all the sounds with spelling patterns, before adding details and review in the other 16 ebooks. Your child could make their own version of the first ebook and talk about the pictures as they review all the sounds with their spelling patterns. Making their own book with pictures activates episodic memory reinforcing semantic memory – a dyslexic weakness – for the code. See how drawing pictures significantly boosts memory in "A Simple Way to Better Remember Things: Draw a Picture" (New York Times 1/6/19 article by Tim Herrera). The paperback "My Easier English Coloring Book", a supplement to the ebook series, is similar to "Easier English for Dyslexics 1". It also includes a detailed chart recapping the code and may be useful for dyslexics who prefer reviewing English sounds and spelling patterns in a paperback format they can color. “I’ve found no other teaching materials with a concise picture-based summary of letters and sounds,” the author said. “Unlike the Easier English approach, systematic and explicit reading programs do not include images to help a dyslexic more rapidly and accurately recall individual sounds and their associated spelling patterns.” Here’s a list of materials and therapies she investigated and used with her son: *Explode the Code – the whole series *Wilson Reading System *Phonographics *LANGUAGE! *Read Naturally *Words Their Way *Fast ForWord *Learning Rx *Auditory Integration Therapy *Developmental optometry *Writing materials from Direct Instruction and Diana Hansbury King For more on English spelling designed for beginning ESL students, math facts with vocabulary, an easy way to master the Hebrew alphabet and a pictorial intro to computer cryptography see the Doris Baker author page.