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. |
Sandra Martin earned a Bachelor of Science in Education degree from Bloomsburg University, in Bloomsburg, PA, and a Master of Education degree in learning disabilities from Shippensburg University, in Shippensburg, PA. Sandra served as an adjunct professor at Dickinson College, in Carlisle, PA, where she taught student teachers to use multisensory and universal teaching techniques to meet the needs of all learners.