How I Teach

Drive Reading Rules

Drive Reading Rules is an instructional booklet that allows teacher or parent to teach individuals to read, particularly those with dyslexia. This teaching method is a new way to read and is a complete step-by-step retraining process. As an instructor, it is important to grasp what someone with dyslexia experiences while trying to read. Imagine reading a page of words which have no connection, meaning, or order, then remembering and explaining it. This is their nightmare. Drive Reading Rules is simple, yet functional. As your student begins to apply the rules and control the written words, they will hear, understand, and remember what is read. This teaching method makes it possible for the brain to take in the sounds and absorb each thought in every sentence. Enhanced hearing will increase comprehension which makes retention possible.

Silly Syllables

Nonsense words are made up from syllables such as fin, gle, nic, tic, vel, and kle and are used in exercises to train the student's right and left brain to work together. This eases tension and enables the student to concentrate on hearing what sounds are being made. Students soon gain confidence by reading nonsense words. These tools can then be applied to reading other material and then to improving their ability to spell.

Linguistic and Multi-Sensory Training

Linguistics is the study of human speech including the units, nature, structure, and modification of the language. Finding words that rhyme and then changing the beginning sounds will make words more tangible. By learning to determine which group of letters makes up a real word, the student will read words and non-words with ease. Dyslexic students learn best when sight, hearing, and tactile senses are combined. This is multi-sensory training. After training for spelling, students can close their eyes and trace words correctly in the air with their finger. Next, using linguistics, they are able to spell a similar-sounding word.