Teaching Materials

This four volume set of teaching materials develops visual recall for words and helps students become better readers and spellers. Levels I-IV are developmentally presented at a Grade I through 6 level. It is an excellent program to use to help children expand their ability to retain sight words for reading and spelling, understand phonics and syllabication, and recall terms for basic subjects such as history and science. Wonderful teaching tool for homeschooling. Easy to administer in 10-15 minute sessions.

Book 1 of this series is an excellent reader for beginners or children who are experiencing difficulty learning to read from the Whole Language Approach. This book uses the basic Dolch sight words that all beginning readers must learn. It presents them in humorous stories that are fun for children to read.

Book 2 of this series is a continuation of book one. It introduces more of the basic Dolch sight words that all children must learn through humorous stories. Once a new word is introduced it is repeated over and over again. This repetition makes learning to read easier for children and helps them to develop recall of words.

Book one of this series is suitable for children in pre-school to grade four. It is an excellent teaching tool to help children develop good listening skills for information presented in context. There are three levels of difficulty. Once one level is mastered, the instructor can move on to the next level. Easy to administer in 10-15 minute sessions.

Book 2 increases in difficulty and helps children to develop good listening skills on a developmental basis for grades four through six. Remedially this book can be used with students in middle school through adults. It is particularly good for children with AD and ADHD since these children need to be taught how to become good listeners. Easy to administer in 10-15 minute sessions.

Book 3 is an extension of Book 2 in its presentation of the basic Dolch vocabulary words that all beginning readers must learn. It is highly recommended that you purchase all three so that the entire basic sight words are taught.

This book introduces new strategies for the teaching of reading comprehension. It contains 40 strategy lessons that can be adapted to any book. It is especially appropriate for grades 2-8 for the teaching of science, social studies, or language arts. A wonderful teaching guide.

This book is an excellent teaching book to use after the series of A Funny Dolch Word Book reviewed above. It offers beginning readers, or children with reading deficiencies practice in reading Dolch words with various common suffixes (endings) added to the words. The entire book is devoted to delightful stories about horses and is a wonderful addition to the series.

Who Can Help

Who Can Help is a wonderful book to use following Guess Who. It consists of humorous stories that all

beginning readers enjoy and is presented with a controlled vocabulary.

Guess Who

Guess Who is a pre-primer and the first book in a series of beginning readers. It has a total vocbulary of 58 words and is an excellent reader to use with students who are experiencing difficulties learning to read. It contains a controlled vocabulary so that once a word is introduced it is presented over and over again.

Fun with Dick and Jane

Fun with Dick and Jane is a primer and can be followed by Guess Who. It consists of 158 vocabulary words that are presented in a controlled fashion. Once a word is introduced it is found over and over again in the book. A wonderful book for beginning readers (first half of first grade) and for remedial reading. Learning disabled (dyslexic) children can truly learn to read with this series.

Achieve: A Visual Memory Program Levels V & VI

by Addie Cusimano

This two volume set of teaching materials is an extension of levels I-IV. It is designed to be used developmentally with students in grades 7 & 8. It can be used remedially with students in grades 7 through adult. Levels V & VI expand the visual memory letter span of the student to a 16 letter words and offers a wonderful means to help students retain sight vocabulary, improve their spelling and understanding of syllabication and word meaning. Great teaching tool for homeschooling.

Cues & Comprehension Level I

By Kitty Wehril

An excellent teaching workbook for students with visual perception difficulties, that is, students who experience difficulty noting differences in similar words. Students read a sentence and then find the same words among similar words. This teaching technique helps beginning readers to look carefully at the beginning, middle and end of words noting the differences between commonly confused words such as when and then, ever and every, could and would, this and that etc.

Symbol Discrimination and Sequencing

This workbook can be used to teach visual memory of pictures, symbols, letters and numbers. The student looks at a sequence of items for five seconds. The teacher can cover this up and have the student circle the items he saw above among the items below. It begins at a 3 unit level and progresses to a 5 unit level. It is an excellent tool to use with pre-schoolers and kindergarten students to begin the process of developing visual recall. It does not teach visual recall of words which is essential for reading. For that, Achieve: A Visual Memory Program above is recommended.

Storybook Treasury of Dick and Jane and Friends

by William S. Gray (hardcover)

This book contains a reprint of three books, We Look and See, We Come and Go, and The New We Work and Play. Presented with controlled vocabulary the book offers an wonderful way for beginning readers to learn. Once a word is introduced it will be found repeatedly throughout the book. Great for any child but especially for dyslexic children who are experiencing difficulty learning to read.

Auditory Sequential Memory Instructional Workbook

By Addie Cusimano

This teaching material is an excellent source for educators and parents to use to teach children how to attend, listen and recall a series of numbers, letters and words. It is developmental in its presentation and can be easily taught in 5-10 minute lessons. It helps children to expand their ability to recall series thus making it easier for them to memorize number facts, lists of words for their history and science classes and the sequential order of letters for spelling. The workbook contains a instructor's manual, 66 exercises and a reproducible student record sheet

The Buggy That Boogied Away

by Betsy B. Lee

The Buggy That Boogied Away is a charming, humorous and brightly illustrated book about a horse who surprises his owner by trotting off when the owner least expects it! It is a wonderful book to use for helping children to develop fluency and confidence in oral reading. Based on a cumulative story, phrases are repeated as new ones are added, allowing the young reader to instill in his memory additional reading vocabulary while he enjoys the development of the story. The book also lends itself well to choral reading and is one that can be enjoyed by children from pre-school to grade four.

Visual Discrimination:

Noting Differences in Frequently Misperceived Words Workbook

by Addie Cusimano

Beginning readers and students with visual discrimination problems often confuse words that are similar. Some of the words that are most frequently misperceived are was and saw, this and that, when and then, where and there, and ever and every.

This workbook is based on specific words that are most often misperceived by beginning readers and students with visual discrimination weaknesses. It is designed to teach students how to establish in their memory the differences between similar words so that reading these words accurately becomes an automatic response. Included in this workbook are a teacher’s manual and sixty (60) exercises presented in a developmental fashion, utilizing teaching techniques proven to be effective in expanding visual discrimination skills.