An Amazing Circus of Phonograms-Act 1: An excellent resource book for teachers and parents

By Mary Jo Nyssen

Teaching children to read is less about making them memorize rules and more about giving them the tools they need to sound out and spell any word they encounter. By using a multisensory phonics method, you can break the code of reading by introducing your child to the seventy phonograms of the English language. But, as author and grandm

• Language: English
• Publisher: MOM-BA BOOKS
• Release date: Mar 24, 2015
• ISBN: 9780998583211

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I dedicate this book to all of my loving daughters, Charlene, Michelle, Joyce, Beth Ann, Kristi, and my devoted husband Richard who have all been so supportive of my writing.

Copyright © 2015 Mary Jo Nyssen

All rights reserved.

ISBN: 0692250158

ISBN 13: 9780692250150

ISBN: 9780998583211 (e-book)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015900113

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Introduction to the reader of

In my first book, A Colorful Journey Through the Land of Talking Letters, I introduced the first 26 letters of the alphabet (26 phonograms) and their sounds. The remaining 44 phonograms of the 70 total phonograms have more than one letter in their makeup. This book (Act One) introduces 22 of these 44 phonograms. The remaining 22 phonograms will be presented in my third book (Act Two.)

The 22 phonograms included in Act One are the five differently spelled er sounds – er, ir, ur, ear, and wor, and the other seventeen are sh, ee, th, ay, ai, ow, ou, oa, oy, oi, aw, au, ew,