Phonemic analysis and phonics go first, in one catch.  Kids learn to read, write and spell from the word go,
with fun games and stories that keep engagement in flow.  There’s ample repetition to reinforce skills, with decodable words, so that learning builds literacy knowledge – state of the art, and ultimately, reading comprehension – the essential part.
I want your kids to learn the best way they can, so the method is based on the reading science plan. It’s current and cool and, offered for free, because fluent reading is a right, a basic liberty. So get the app now, for their first fun learning spree.

It all started with… my human mum, Jennifer. She has been endorsed as a cognitive, developmental, and child and adolescent counselling psychologist, and a registered teacher of English literature, and a Special Education teacher (literacy). She actually began her teaching and counselling career in the mixed-race slums of Johannesburg and Soweto, South Africa.

Jennifer has spent her career working in literacy and counselling. She mentored refugee kids in a school in the Western suburbs of Sydney, and she taught post-graduate psychology students about human development and how to work with children and teenagers whether it’s learning to calm down or to read.

Jennifer’s one of the most qualified people to write a reading app. For her Ph.D. in cognitive psychology she studied memory and learning, with a research focus on how children learn to read. The degree tied her different career strands together, because children who don’t acquire good reading skills tend to have social, emotional and academic challenges. Consequently, they often miss out on life’s opportunities.

After extensive lecturing at university and many years of counselling and teaching children and teenagers, Jennifer embraced technology as an excellent tool for literacy attainmnet. She scripted all the lessons for the reading app that was to become Learn to Read George Canine. This app is designed to teach children to read in the most efficient, evidenced-based way. Jennifer knows exactly how to create the app because, as a cognitive psychologist, she had studied, researched, worked and lectured in all of the relevant areas. She not only knows what content to create, but how I should teach it.

 

As George Canine, my job is to support my human friends with unending loyalty, love and fun. That’s just what dogs do, even when it comes to teaching kids to read, write and spell.

I know how important it is to start the reading program with phonemic analysis, that is, hearing sounds in spoken words. With that, there’s phonics. That’s when you teach kids about the relationship between alphabet letters and those sounds in spoken words. Next, we practice the letters-sounds to read the words in interesting stories.

I have also learned that when building a skill set, repetition is the name of the game. So, I repeat myself, because it’s only with repeated practice that kids will acquire the necessary skills for reading.

Next, Jennifer ensured that I teach and speak slowly so that kids can process what I say. So, please don’t judge me by your standards; judge me by your children’s cognitive needs, like the speed with which they process information.

And, another thing. Not only do kids learn to read, write and spell at the same time, they also learn through a multi-sensory experience.  So, your kids learn by sight, sound and touch. Jennifer says there’s lots of evidence to show that it’s the best way to acquire reading, writing and spelling skills.

Finally, like all dogs, I’m fun-oriented. So, Jennifer has introduced lots and lots of stories and games because, hey, I’m a happy beagle and like all human kids, I love to play.