How Whole Phonics Supports Students with Dyslexia

How Whole Phonics Supports Students with Dyslexia

The idea for Whole Phonics began when the founder and author, Jill Lauren, couldn’t find colorful and engaging decodable books for her students with dyslexia. Jill decided to write her own. Her students loved those books, and Jill decided to bring them to a wider audience. 

Decades of research reveals so much about how children learn to read. Reading begins when the brain connects the sounds we hear to the letters we see. This connection is the heart of phonics instruction. Throughout her teaching career, Jill saw firsthand the success of evidence-based, explicit phonics instruction, as supported by research of the National Reading Panel. Effective instructional techniques and research-based guidelines became the foundation of Whole Phonics. 

While most children need phonics instruction to learn to read, students with dyslexia need more of it. Students benefit from significant repetition to anchor new sounds into memory for easy recall. Decodable books are the place where instruction and practice comes alive.

How does Whole Phonics make the need for repetition engaging? To start, three delightful decodable books are dedicated to each new sound. The books include delightful characters and funny story lines. Children respond favorably to our engaging stories that offer a problem and solution. Whole Phonics does not just offer decodable readers. Workbooks and games are available to support purposeful practice, and Reader’s Theater plays further provide motivation to solidify new sounds. These materials help to foster reading with purposeful practice, while promoting engagement and building comprehension.

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