Platypus

Platypus — Sound Signs Drill Reader - Level 5 Back to Basics Reading Program

There is simply nothing else like this on the market.

Most reading programmes teach children to recognise words. This one teaches them to hear and read the actual sounds of the English language — all 44 of them — using a system of Sound Signs that represent each speech sound precisely and unambiguously.

Reader 5 gives students the opportunity to read a real, content-rich story written entirely in Sound Signs. Not sounding out letters — but reading the actual sounds of spoken English directly from the page. This trains the ear and the eye together, building a deep, instinctive understanding of how English pronunciation actually works.

The result is a reader who doesn't just recognise words by sight — they understand the sound structure of the language itself. That is a profound and lasting foundation for literacy.

Meet the platypus — one of Australia's most remarkable animals — and while you're discovering fascinating facts about this extraordinary egg-laying mammal, you'll also be doing something no ordinary reader asks of you: reading the sounds of the English language as fluently as you read the words.

This is phonics taken to its logical and most powerful conclusion.

Part of the Back to Basics Reading Program by Marcia Reid. Visit us at affinitypress.com.au