The Road to Reading: Supporting phonemic, phonological awareness and phonics within a balanced literacy program

The Road to Reading (2011) Supporting phonemic, phonological awareness and phonics within a balanced literacy program 

Help your Child to Excel at Reading An essential guide for parents

When we hold our newborn in our arms for the first time, our mind is filled with many visions for their future amongst out joy and elation and our heart swirls with emotion. We draw on all we know, all we have experienced, al we have shared with our friends and family, and all we have read about preparing a place in our lives for our child now resting in our arms. 
It doesn't seem too long before we let go of their hands at the school gate and new teachers enter their lives to assist them through their next stage in learning. Our children take with them all the experiences in their early years as building blocks for their formal learning in school.  

At times this can lead us to uncertain places. The uncertainty brought about by new experiences as your child brings home activities, home readers, sound sheets and activities that may sometimes appear foreign to us. To make these experiences more natural and enjoyable as our child excels in reading, this book supports you as you develop a balanced social, emotional and educational experience about learning with your child.

Help you child excel at reading is an easy to read handbook that holistically addresses the skills children need as they learn to read.
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Help your Child to Excel at Reading (2008)

Parents want to know more about how to help their children succeed.

Help your child to excel at reading is full of information to help parents knowledgeably guide their children as they learn how to read and write – so their children can achieve their full potential while feeling great and believing in themselves.

The book is:
• helpful for parents with children from 4 to 14 years
• written by a teacher especially for parents
• empowers parents, gives accurate information about the latest methods for teaching literacy
• links reading and writing strategies
• encourages the transfer of skills to new topics and developmental levels.

Explains ‘how to help’ children achieve real reading success – making reading something instinctive, as well as something they learn to love doing. The book discusses a consistent theme of developing all aspects of the child – the emotional, social and educational.

It emphasises the importance of the partnership between home and school. The book discusses the different approaches to help children connect sounds, sound patterns in the written form and clearly explains a variety of strategies to help children obtain meaning from reading and to write meaningfully.

Studies have proved the significance of early informal reading and writing before children begin school, the critical values of them understanding phonemic awareness early in the educational experience and the book explains how parents can begin and keep supporting their children as they learn to read.

Respect me - Respect you Fostering Resilience

The series of three books is consciously underpinned by the rights and responsibilities ethos. 
Series one: 5-7 year old students
Series two: 8-10 year old students
Series three: 11year old and older

Pedagogy

The series embraces current theories to support a supportive program based on self awareness, self acceptance and self esteem. The strategies and worksheets are based on Kohlberg's stages of moral development and Erikson's stages of social development to build students' awareness of the need to change, the desire to participate, knowledge of how to change and develop and the encouragement to reinforce appropriate and acceptable behaviours. This reinforcement fosters resilience by developing each student's inner power as they ultimately acquire a desired personal value framework while respecting and valuing others in the process. 
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Respect me - Respect you Fostering Resilience (2007)

Pedagogy
Respect me – Respect you follows a ten-step values education program incorporating
* The ADKAR change-management model,
* Edward de Bono’s six parallel hats teaching method,
* Eric Erikson’s psycho-social stages of development,
* The application of Bloom’s taxonomy and Kohlberg’s stages of moral development as part of teaching and learning values.

Features of the publication series
- detailed information about each theory
- embraces current pedagogy, theoretical psycho-social research and effective conflict resolution models
- provides a ready-to-go program to actively implement a school’s social skills and value education policy
- develops resilience, self-awareness, self-acceptance and self-esteem
- ten-step program fits into a term’s work
- each of the ten steps is accompanied by comprehensive teachers notes and a selection of  blackline masters
                                                        - includes a list of supplementary resources to use with each step
                                                        - a program overview
                                                        - curriculum links
                                                        - suggestions for assessment activities
                                                        - answers to activities and discussions where relevant.

The Road to Reading (2011)

This second edition (in print) builds upon the first edition published in 2005 making specific links to the Australian Curriculum and current pedagogy.

Organisation and focus
The Road to Reading is a 256 page teacher support for both the developmental and wave approaches of spelling development (Joy 2011; Kwong & Varnhagen 2005). Organised into levels of difficulty and frequency of use, particular phonic patterns can be followed sequentially, making reference to relevant Content Descriptors from the Australian Curriculum as a stage based spelling approach, or studying particular phonic patterns according to students’ individual needs. The phonic pattern groups are labelled using a road metaphor that students travel along. Each group of phonic patterns delineated by a different coloured road. 

Each of the coloured roads from chapter one is accompanied by:
·     A series of reproducible word lists for list word reading and spelling activities
·     Supportive literacy strategies and worksheet masters that provide students with activities to practice phonemic skills, phonological skills such as alliteration, isolation, segmentation and blending and letter-sound pattern knowledge.  
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The Road to Reading Series (2005)
The Road to Reading and Spelling Student Workbook (2006)

This body of work was the culmination of research to develop a collection of words which provide practise manipulating, identifying and decoding specific sound patterns. The series was a set of eight books to support phonological and phonics skills. A ninth book was published in 2006 as teachers who were implementing the Road to Reading Series across their school in reading and spelling programmes requested a wider resource base of list words and grapho-phonic spelling activities to support individuals spelling programs.