Originally published in 1961, Let's Read is a simple and systematic
way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard
Bloomfield, the book is based on the alphabetic spelling patterns
of English. Bloomfield offered an antidote to the idea that English
is a difficult language to learn to read by teaching the learner to
decode the phonemic sound-letter correlations of the language in a
sequential, logical progression of lessons based on its spelling
patterns. The learner is first introduced to the most consistent
(alphabetic) vocabulary and then to increasingly less alphabetic
and less frequent spelling patterns within a vocabulary of about
5,000 words. The second edition of Let's Read brings Bloomfield's
innovative program into the twenty-first century without changing
the sequence of exercises but with revised text and an attractive
new design and layout. Authors Cynthia A. Barnhart and Robert K.
Barnhart, who have long been involved with Let's Read, have refined
the original edition with new vocabulary and content based on
feedback from longtime users. The new edition lightens the first
learning load by presenting lengthy patterns in two lessons rather
than one, adding more connected reading and new vocabulary, and
introducing some sight words earlier in the sequence. The authors
have also added a list of multisyllable words at the end of part 1
that fall within the patterns of the first lessons, and they have
added some longer stories later in the program. The notes
introducing each part of Let's Read have also been revised to be
more informative, and new illustrations have been added. Let's Read
not only teaches users to read English based on spelling patterns
but simultaneously reduces the emphasis on pronunciation to teach
letter sounds, making it useful for bilingual and nonnative English
speakers as well. Parents, reading teachers, tutors, as well as ESL
teachers and adult literacy instructors will be interested in the
second edition of Let's Read.
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Sat, 27 Aug 2022 | Review
by: Deborah S.
This is an excellent resource for anyone teaching a struggling beginner reader. It is developed by a professor of linguistics and is masterfully though out in how it progresses through word families. I learnt about it through Dr David Kilpatrick's "Equipped for reading Success".
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