Waubonsee Community College

Let's read, a linguistic approach, Cynthia A. Barnhart and Robert K. Barnhart

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Let's read

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Cynthia A. Barnhart and Robert K. Barnhart

a linguistic approach

Originally published in 1961, Let's Read is a simple and systematic way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield, it 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 to 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

Foreword -- Let's Read Linguistic Approach -- Introduction / Cynthia A Barnhart and Robert K Barnhart -- Teaching children to read / Leonard Bloomfield -- Let's Look -- Let's Read -- 1 First Reading -- Guide to lessons 1-36 -- Lessons 1-36 -- Word-attack: a list of multisyllable words -- 2: Easy Reading -- Guide to lessons 37-71 -- Lessons 37-71 -- 3: More Easy Reading -- Guide to lessons 72-97 -- Lessons 72-97 -- 4: Commonest Irregular Words -- Guide to lessons 98-151 -- Lessons 98-151 -- 5: Commonest Irregular Vowel Spelling Patterns -- Guide to lessons 152-199 -- Lessons 152-199 -- 6: Commonest Irregular Consonant Spelling Patterns -- Guide to lessons 200-245 -- Lessons 200-245 -- Index to the Let's read vocabulary -- About the authors