Sandra Martin recently added an ebook version of Breaking the “Sound” Barrier to Fluent Reading (BSB), Level 1 with optional teaching videos and also created a downloadable version on Teachers Pay Teachers. Purchase just the teacher’s edition or also add the teaching videos at a separate cost. The 57 videos are of the author, Sandra Martin, instructing teachers and students: 17 videos are informational for teacher/parent viewing and 38 videos are for students. Student videos show the author teaching phonics through sports-themed, high-interest skits.The videos average from 1 to 3 minutes in length. If the videos are not purchased, teachers have more of a role with acting out the scenarios. Adequate scripted explanations are given in BSB for teachers to feel comfortable with doing their own acting.
View sample videos below:
Video 7, BSB1B | Video 9, BSB1B |
Watch an explanation of the rationale for teaching phonics using unusual memory devices. Discover why phonics or lists of letters are unrelated items that have no meaning by themselves. |
Watch one of many high-interest, phonic-word stories targeting the interest level of the student in grades 4-12– visualizing an apple for the short “a.” |
Video 18, BSB1B | Video 42, BSB1B |
Watch a mini lesson geared to the adolescent in grades 4-12 about the controlling power of the letter “r.” |
Watch a middle/high school instructional video about learning to spell. Teachers can rewire learning pathways in the brain to build successful spellers. |
Learning By Doing
The success of BSB is found within a carefully documented research process.
DVD Clip 2a, BSB1B | DVD Clip 2b, BSB1B |
View students’ weak phonics skills before BSB. |
View students’ strong phonics skills after BSB. |
DVD Clip 4, BSB1B | DVD Clip 5, BSB1B |
Watch students with previous reading difficulties demonstrate their ability to read large words, including those from the Guinness Book of World Records, gaining 1 to 4 years of reading growth. |
Watch students remember the phonic sounds from grade 5 through grade 12. Before BSB, they could not remember them. |