The Sound Reading System
The Sound Reading System is an exciting, common sense approach to the teaching of reading and spelling. It is based on the spelling system of written English.
The fact that there are 176 spellings for 44 sounds shows that the English spelling system is ‘opaque’ rather than ‘transparent’ – therefore difficult to get hold of for both teachers and learners.
It is precisely these difficulties or complexities that are entirely ironed out by the Sound Reading System. The SRS programme teaches all the information necessary for a reader to learn how to decode painlessly. It is built on four keys that unfold logically, building understanding. These have been described in the programme as ‘keys to the code’.