Cracking the ABC Code

Multisensory Reading and Spelling Programs

Does your child have difficulty with reading or difficulty with spelling?

Are you looking for help for a child with dyslexia?

Are you looking for a reading program or a spelling program that will improve your child's reading and spelling skills in a short amount of time?

Improve Reading and Spelling

The Cracking the ABC Code multisensory reading programs and spelling programs:

  • Improve literacy skills, giving a real boost to school education, by teaching students how to 'crack the literacy code'.
  • Teach phonics by introducing students to the common graphemes (letter or letters) and phonemes (sounds), using a structured, systematic, multisensory and integrated approach.
  • Use strategies for teaching reading and spelling that are based on current literacy learning and memory research to ensure long-term learning and real understanding.
  • Are simple-to-use and very effective. All students, but particularly children with learning difficulties, who have completed the programs have shown significant improvements in their reading and spelling skills in just a few months.
  • Include detailed instructions and an explanation of the underlying theoretical basis of the activities.
  • Are used internationally by parents and teachers (both in schools and private businesses).

Improve Writing

The Writing Creatively program has been designed specifically for students who have difficulty expressing themselves in writing. It provides a systematic, step by step program for developing students' written expression skills.

Downloadable Reading and Spelling Games and Activities

There is an ever growing range of downloadable reading and spelling games and activities. These can used in isolation or to support the Cracking the ABC Code programs.

  • Alphabet and phonic dominoes
  • Word Scramble
  • Cross Sleuths
  • Alphabet and phonics bingo
  • Alphabet and phonic cards
  • Word Changers
  • Mad Mad Mad Flip Book
  • My Alphabet Book

Specialist Teachers

For the contact details of qualified specialist teachers who are experienced in improving the reading and spelling of students with learning difficulties and are accredited to use the Cracking the ABC Code programs to work please click here.

Dr Lillian Fawcett

lfawcett@crackingtheabccode.com
Ph.D., B.Ed., B.A. Psychology (Honours)

 Dr Lillian Fawcett has over 20 years experience in education, is an accredited Dyslexia-SPELD specialist teacher and has additional qualifications in psychology. She has successfully helped hundreds of students improve their literacy skills and is constantly updating her programs in light of new research and teaching methodologies.

 

NEWS: PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY
There is a long history of research showing that a child’s phonological knowledge at pre-school is a good indicator of their future success in learning to read and spell accurately. Even the most current research continues to show the importance of phonological awareness.

In McNamara, Scissons, and Gutknecth’s (2011) longitudinal study published last month, the reading achievement of 382 children was assessed yearly from kindergarten through to Grade 3. In kindergarten, children were screened with a battery of phonological awareness measures. On the basis of percentile rank scores, children were then identified as having poor, average, or strong phonological awareness. Reading achievement data was subsequently collected in the spring of each year when the students were in Grades 1, 2, and 3. (Click here to see graphs of the results.)

Those students who had poor phonological awareness in kindergarten had the lowest scores in reading achievement in Year 1, 2 and 3 in word identification, word attack, and reading fluency. Furthermore, each year the gap in reading ability between these struggling readers and their peers increased significantly.

These results strongly indicate the need to specifically teach struggling readers phonological awareness. Even more importantly, these results indicate the need to be assessing for phonological awareness in kindergarten and putting programs in place in kindergarten to help those students who score poorly on these test. However, for students with literacy difficulties it is not sufficient to just teach phonological awareness in isolation. It also needs to be incorporated into every aspect of teaching reading and spelling. This is an integral part of the Cracking the ABC Code programs.

Multisensory Spelling Books L and M are now available.
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Cross Sleuths:  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

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