Research shows that improving decoding ability enables students to be better at teaching themselves new words, leading to improvements in overall reading ability. Reading researchers have discovered that a teaching method called synthetic phonics is the most effective way to teach kids to read and spell. ReadingDoctor® Online uses a synthetic phonics approach in its teaching methodology.
Watch this video to hear Dr. Bartek Rajkowski, Speech & Language Pathologist and creator of ReadingDoctor®, provide a brief overview of the purpose and teaching objectives of ReadingDoctor® Online:
ReadingDoctor® Online teaches the foundation skills children need to become good at reading and spelling.
It uses explicit, systematic synthetic phonics activities to develop skills including:
- hearing and working with speech sounds (phonemic awareness)
- learning letter-sound relationships
- blending sounds together to read words
- breaking words into sounds for spelling (segmentation)
- decoding unfamiliar words
- recognising commonly occurring but irregularly spelled sight words.
Children work through a carefully sequenced program, with activities adjusted as they build the prerequisite skills for more difficult reading and spelling tasks.
It provides a strong complement to your school's existing phonics program, alongside rich oral language, vocabulary, background knowledge, fluency and comprehension instruction.
You can read more about how the program works in the ReadingDoctor® Parent Guide.
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