Building Phoneme Manipulation Skill
The Auditory Piece is a new section of the Guide that will eventually delve into the auditory issues that might be getting in the way of your child’s learning to read. I say, eventually, because this is an area that I have little experience with assessing, beyond the task of phoneme manipulation.
However, I have put together a word list that is quite comprehensive and can be used to train the skill of phoneme manipulation very effectively if used according to the instructions on the Page. You can download the list as a PDF file from Oral Auditory Processing. This is a very useful list that you will find nowhere else.
I use the word list with every client of OnTrack Reading who fails to get a perfect score on the ten-item auditory processing test discussed under the testing section in the phonics Pages of the Guide. Phoneme manipulation is a useful skill and it is trainable. Clients routinely score perfectly on the testing by the time they finish the curriculum. Here is a link to the test form: Download the Test Scoresheet.
The word list and instructions can be found in The Auditory Piece.