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A long time ago I ran across the greatest remedial reading instruction book. The cover was royal blue and I think the title was white or yellow. It was also an odd shaped book: landscape printed, perhaps 8" x 14".

 

The quarter of the book was about reading and instruction and the rest was picto-graph images of spelling rules, along with reading lists for each rule.

 

The rules were really easy and cute:

A few I can remember for the silent E...

English words never end with the letter V

One of the jobs of the letter E is to help the L from falling over at the end of a word.

The E kicks the vowel to make it say it's name (complete with a picture of the E hoping over the consonant to kick the vowel)

 

Please help! I can't seem to figure out the title and I've been Googling for hours.

 

Thanks so much!

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A long time ago I ran across the greatest remedial reading instruction book. The cover was royal blue and I think the title was white or yellow. It was also an odd shaped book: landscape printed, perhaps 8" x 14".

 

The quarter of the book was about reading and instruction and the rest was picto-graph images of spelling rules, along with reading lists for each rule.

 

The rules were really easy and cute:

A few I can remember for the silent E...

English words never end with the letter V

One of the jobs of the letter E is to help the L from falling over at the end of a word.

The E kicks the vowel to make it say it's name (complete with a picture of the E hoping over the consonant to kick the vowel)

 

Please help! I can't seem to figure out the title and I've been Googling for hours.

 

Thanks so much!

 

I don't know, and I have a lot of phonics books! I'll ask Don Potter.

 

I tell my students the same think about the e as the l, the e after the v is to keep the v from falling over. (Someone else thought it up, but my younger students enjoy it, and my older ones with a quirky sense or humor.)

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Just played around with some of your description terms since the book sounded interesting. Is this the one you're looking for? It seems to fit your description. There is a classic version and a newer one. You can check out the links to the right and it gives examples of the letters in their pictograph form. It certainly looks cute enough.

 

http://www.letterlandcanada.com/about/research

 

Hope you find what you're looking for!

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