C. O. M Method for Acquiring Reading Skills in English

About the Book

Coping with the great gap between spelling and pronunciation in English is a hard task. The C.O.M method overcomes that difficulty in the following way: the pupil has to learn by heart only 15 basic words (the pronouns and their auxiliary verbs in the present tense and a few prepositions). The texts include these basic words and words which are pronounced exactly as they are written. The pupil feels that he "knows" to read English and gains self-confidence. Then the pupil is taught phonological patterns. After each group of patterns the pupil reads sentences and stories. A pattern is never used in the texts unless it was already taught in one of the previous sections. The pupil is always familiar with what he/she has to read; he/she gets used to "translating" words into phonological models, with /without sound deviation/s.

About the Author

Anat Hirsch is the author of the book "C.O.M Method for Acquiring Reading Skills in English". She graduated her first degree in English Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and her second degree in Information Studies (Librarianship) from Haifa University. She is a librarian in Tel- Aviv University, Israel.