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Teach a Student to Read (TASTR) is not a phonics book. Phonics is a method of teaching reading that posits that sounds correlate with graphemes in an alphabetic writing system. Phonics assumes letters represent speech sounds. Letters can spell sounds, but not all letters spell sounds. Some letters are markers. Other letters are zeroed. TASTR strives to teach fully and accurately about the English writing system to give a new reader the information needed to read and understand the spelling of any English word.

TASTR is currently available for purchase on Amazon.

The print version is available in two volumes (Volume 1 and Volume 2) at $24.99 each for a total of $49.98.

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Volume 1 contains Lesson 1 to Lesson 58. (361 pages)

The words "Teach a Student to Read" and "Volume 2" and "Heather Marie Kosur" in black writing on a sky blue background with white snow at the bottom and a yellow crocus with green leaves in the lower left corner.

Volume 2 contains Lesson 59 to Lesson 116. (395 pages)

The Kindle version contains both volumes found in the print version for $19.99.

The words "Teach a Student to Read" and "Volumes 1 and 2" and "Heather Marie Kosur" in black writing on a sky blue background with white snow at the bottom and a yellow crocus with green leaves in the lower left corner.

A Reading Supplement that contains the stories in the electronic version is available for $11.99.

The words "Teach a Student to Read" and "Reading Supplement" and "Heather Marie Kosur" in black writing on a sky blue background with white snow at the bottom and a yellow crocus with green leaves in the lower left corner.

The Kindle version can be used alone, but the Reading Supplement offers new readers a physical book to hold and manipulate.

Updates

The <igh> in height was erroneously identified as an etymological marker in an earlier version. The <e> is the etymological marker. The <igh> spells [ɑɪ]. The print and Kindle versions have been updated with a note.

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Customer Review Sally Cole 5.0 out of 5 stars Best Starting Point for Systematic, Direct Literacy Instruction Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2020 Verified Purchase Teach a Student to Read" belongs in the personal library of every reading teacher, tutor, and parent. It can be used to deliver systematic, direct instruction that gets children reading quickly. It can also be used as a reference tool. It's this latter use case that I'm using it for now as a homeschool mom.

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