When I starting homeschooling I thought you taught phonics and “the light went on” and off you went. Reading didn’t come that easily and then my next child didn’t speak clearly. I didn’t know that both these problems came from their inability to work successfully with pesky little things called phonemes.

While reviewing the book “Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Toolkit” by Mark Pennington hours of speech therapy came back. Mr Pennington starts with assessment and showing you exactly what a phoneme is and sounds like. Then he steps you through testing. Can your child hear the individual sounds in a word, does your child know how to rhyme? This is exactly the tool I needed when I started looking into ways to help my children through the early years of reading and speech delays.

I was impressed with this book! It can be used to enrich speech therapy or if your child is beginning to stumble in regular phonics programs. There are many concentrated lessons to isolate and work with each phoneme. I can see this book being a delightful tool for a child with apraxia, speech delays, CAPD, dyslexia, or a general difficulty hearing and working with letter and their sounds. I give this book a thumbs up!

This item is available for purchase through CurrClick and can be found: HERE.

Heather Laurie and her husband, Christopher, have been married for 13 wonderful years, and have been blessed with 7 children, two of whom are awaiting them in Heaven. They began their homeschooling journey eight years ago, amidst trials and unexpected journeys, including genetic disorders, austism, sensory disorders, and lupus. Heather and her husband created the ministry Special Needs Homeschooling as a way to use their trials for the Lord’s glory and to encourage special needs parents and homeschoolers.