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Show New Phoenetic reading method helps Pleasant Grove readers her research. This daughter is now reading the classics far beyond her age grouo after taking the course from her mother. The Groom method was demonstrated at the Utah Education Association and is being used by a family in Springville. The method helps non-English non-English speakers as well. The abilities of the Indian children to distinguish sounds and symbols of the English language have improved im-proved remarkably due to the use of this method, Mrs. Groom said. Mrs. Groom says she hopes to reach many people in all walks of life with her newly found research using old established methods of research. At Kinderland Pre School in Orem, the teacher, Nancy Makin, uses the Groom English Reading Method to help improve the childrens reading and spelling skills. "This has become a successfully proven tool," says Nancy. Families with children from Pleasant Grove, as well as Provo are pleased with their children's progress. "When a child does not grasp reading quickly he tends to lose his confidence and self image and develops fear which causes a reading disability," claims Byce Grooms, the author of the method. Mrs. Groom has spent a year of research developing the course, which is based on the building blocks of phoenetics and rules enabling a child to decode hundreds of words easily, she says. "The method benefits not only beginners, but anyone trying to improve im-prove his reading and spelling skills, being complex enough to hold the interest of a teenager or an adult," Mrs. Groom claims. According to Mrs. Grooms, the Groom Teaching Method has six basic differences from other reading methods. It teaches the sounds and consonants before letter names, thus blending sounds with words instead of letter names to words -the sounds are taught in a, b, c, d order, not at random, enabling students to learn them all from the beginning -it teaches all vowel sounds of any vowel. That cuts down on number of words to be sight memorized, --diacritical --diacritical markins, indicating the sound of the vowel, facilitate sounding out words effectively. Spelling and pronunciation is taught by flash cards showing rules for the applications ap-plications of each. The course includes suggestions for implementing im-plementing fun into learning with ideas like using "Simon Says" and "Follow the Leader" and sounds to exercises like jumping jacks, hopping and jumping rope, along with singing sounds to musical scales. Mrs. Groom says that her foundation for the work was her deep motivation to help children learn more effectively how to read and spell. Her own daughter's confusion over reading at school, prompted her to begin |