Books & Instruction Manuals
By Laurie Hunter
$38.95
This transformative guide offers a practical 21-step program for parents, teachers, tutors, coaches, counselors, mentors, caregivers, and school administrators who want to improve their children’s and teens’ behaviors in the classroom, at home, or other learning environments. Each step contains a practical lesson with content and strategies that spark self-awareness and constructive insight. Strategies can be implemented with a child at home or with a classroom of students—of all ability levels—including students with ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety, or trauma histories. Parents and teachers who are overwhelmed by resistance, negativity, anxiety, and behavioral shutdowns would benefit from reading this manual. It provides tips, activities, and actual wording parents and instructors can use to motivate and inspire their children and teens to cultivate their executive functions, personal responsibility, confidence, respect, and communication skills. (172 pages)
By Laurie Hunter
$54.95
Teachers, tutors, and parents—regardless of their background in reading instruction—can use this manual and student workbook to teach students of all abilities how to read. This multi-sensory, systematic, and cumulative reading program incorporates research-based practices to develop decoding, encoding, orthographic mapping, blending, comprehension, fluency, and handwriting skills. Designed for students who are reading below grade level or struggling with decoding and fluency. This resource is equally effective for teachers and parents of beginning readers, as well as students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, orthographic processing weaknesses, autism, and English language learners. (260 pages)
Level 1
By Laurie Hunter
$10.95
The first five stories systematically introduce one short vowel at a time. The sixth story focuses on the digraphs wh, th, sh, ch, and ck. The final story is cumulative, providing additional practice with all short vowel sounds. After each story, a spelling and phonics word study allows students to reinforce their understanding and practice spelling words with short vowel sounds. (35 pages)
Level 2
By Laurie Hunter
$10.95
The first five stories systematically introduce one long vowel sound at a time. The sixth story introduces soft c and g. At the end of each story, the author provides tips to help students identify the main character, conflict, resolution, and theme. Each story is also accompanied by a phonics word study. (40 pages)
Level 3
By Laurie Hunter
$10.95
Six stories systematically introduce vowel sounds that are neither long nor short (ou, ow, oo, ar, or, er, ir, ur, oi, and oy). Each story is accompanied by a phonics word study, allowing students to practice spelling words with the corresponding phonics patterns. Additionally, after each story, the author includes a personal letter reflecting on the story’s theme. These letters encourage discussion on important SEL topics such as interdependence, communication with senior family members, resourcefulness, goal setting, gratitude, purpose, self-worth, and the dangers of smoking and drug use. (35 pages)
Level 4
By Laurie Hunter
$14.95
Nine stories systematically introduce long e (ie, y), long i (igh, y), long o (ow, ol), long u (ew, oo), short e (ea), short i (y), short o (a, au, aw, al), and short u (a, o). Each story is followed by a phonics word study and a personal letter reflecting on its theme. These letters provide opportunities for students to discuss important SEL topics such as collaboration, overcoming challenges, resolving conflicts, managing negative emotions, understanding figurative language, forming judgments, responding to others, and appreciating caregivers. (51 pages)
Package: Cultivating Reading and Phonics Skills: 1st Grade – 3rd Grade
Instruction Manual + 4 Phonics Stories Books + 3-D Multisensory Treasure Items
$200.00 + $20 shipping
The Cultivating Reading and Phonics Skills instruction manual is a powerful reading intervention that blends phonics, phonological awareness, spelling, and handwriting into one systematic program. Designed for students who are reading below grade level or struggling with decoding and fluency. This resource is equally effective for teachers and parents of beginning readers, as well as students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, ADHD, orthographic processing weaknesses, autism, and English language learners. Teachers, tutors, and parents can easily follow the step-by-step lessons to introduce orthographic spelling patterns through engaging “Listen for the Sounds” activities.
This package includes 3-D Multisensory Treasure Items—hands-on tools that make phonics come alive. Each Treasure Item represents a specific spelling pattern students can touch, see, and remember. For example, one of the 3-D Multisensory Treasure Items is a chicken, which represents ch, the first sound in chicken. Students use these items to design their own personal deck of 3-D Flash Cards, building a concrete connection between each phonics spelling pattern and its corresponding keyword and sound. By engaging multiple senses, students strengthen their ability to differentiate similar sounds and letters, leading to faster mastery and long-term retention.
The instruction manual, along with the four phonics books (above) and the 3-D Multisensory Treasure Items, provides fun, motivational tools to improve your children’s engagement, skills, self-esteem, confidence, and interest in reading, spelling, and writing. With this program, students don’t just practice phonics—they experience it.