Educational Memory Aids for Reading makes memorizing phonics fun and easy. Research proven mnemonic art activities, posters for single letters and the sounds of double letters (ch, sh, th, oo, ir, aw, ow, ect.

Memory Aids for Reading Includes all the components necessary to teach a child to read or tutor a child who is struggling in reading

Note: This program improves reading by providing memory aid pictures that help students learn phonics and remember hard to learn Sight Words. Also included is a list of the first "500 High Frequency Words" marked with memory aid symbols for easy mastery. The program was Federally funded by the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship Program because it demonstrated improved academic performance. Use at home or incorporate into existing reading programs at school. Order only the products that correspond with the needs of your class or child.
SUGGESTED PROCEDURE FOR TEACHING A CHILD TO READ: STEP ONE - Teach single letter names and sounds ( Memory Aids M-5, M-6) STEP TWO - Teach the digraphs (Memory Aid M-2) STEP THREE -Teach the vowel rules (See Children's Corner at end of this web page) STEP FOUR - Teach the sounds two or more letters make in combination and the "First 500 High Frequency Words" (Memory Aids M-3, M-7, and M-1) STEP FIVE - Use Foundation Readers (M-15, M-16) and (Memory Aid M-1) to focus on the letter combinations as introduced in Step four and to help students memorize "The First 500 High Frequency Words" Scroll down for Product Descriptions. See "Research Page" for a discussion on memory enhancement techniques and teacher comments.

Ready to teach a child to read and need a fun way to teach the names of single letters and their sounds? Give a child glue, scissors, and construction paper and watch them turn letters into pictures and stories to learn phonics. This is a tactile, hands-on, memory aid, art activity and story based approach to make phonics fun and easy. Age 4 and up.

M- 5 Student's "Let's Pretend" cut and paste memory aid art activity storybook teaches name and sound of single letters.

M-6 $29.95

M-6 8 1/2" x 11" Teacher Example/Instruction cards for student storybook or use independently to teach letter names and sounds. 26 Large Cards in color featuring real construction paper and glue on materials, memory aid stories, art instructions included.

New information is easier to remember if it is linked to something that is already well established in the memory bank. A word like "cat, "dog", strawberry, and "rhinoceros" is easier for a child to remember than a word like "the" because the brain usually has stored in its memory bank a picture of a dog, cat, etc., whereas on the other hand, the child cannot visualize a "the". Educational Memory Aids uses a pictorial marking system and posters to make hard to learn words easy.

M-3 Memory aid posters and symbols for the teaching of er, ir, ur, wor, ight, ow, ou, oy, oi, al, au, aw, oo, ew, and ui. (Set of 7 color posters ranging to 22".) $17.95

"Two "o's" say oo as in "Boo! ..."oooooooooooooooooo" ...."Ir is the sound a car makes when it goes around a curve in a road!...Irrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

M-1 New Marking System for Words and High Frequency/Sight Word List

Key to New Marking System, instructions, list of "High Frequency Words" (unmarked and marked with memory aid symbols), and Laminated Memory Aid Picture Poster Card of Symbols

Memory aid marking symbols help students remember the sound of two or more letters, and the first "500 High Frequency Words" by sight

Can also be used as a diagnostic tool to uncover letter combinations needing focus to help struggling readers achieve reading success $9.75

(High Frequency words are words seen most often in text. "The" is the first word on the list because "the" is the word used most frequently. A majority of high frequency words are also Sight Words - words that cannot be sounded out phonetically)

(See Phonic Foundation Readers below to practice letter combinations as introduced or to tutor a child on letter combinations not mastered. )

Note: Sometimes only a few letter combinations such as "ou" or "ar" can keep a child from being an excellent reader.

M-2 $5.50

"Ch" is the sound a train makes as it goes down a track..."ch, ch, ch, ch, ch, ... "Sh" is the sound you make when you put your fingers on your lips".......sh, sh, sh, sh, sh, ..."Always put your teeth on your tongue when you see a "Th" , .....th, th, th, th,.....

M-2 Memory aid symbols, art activities, stories, reproducible worksheets for the teaching of ch, wh, sh, and th.

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The brain has trouble storing information that it can not associate to a picture. Mnemonics create associations that give the brain an organizational framework on which to hook new information. Students use the pictorial marking system mentally or on paper to sound out words. The success of this approach is that the brain then has a cognitive storage system in place to store the new words.

M- 7 "What Says" Memory Aid Poster summarizes sounds of vowel combinations. Memory aid stories for teaching vowel rules included. $4.25