OnTrack Reading

The content of the OnTrack Reading website, A Guide to Overcoming Your Child’s Reading Problems, is listed on the Table of Contents on the adjacent sidebar. (Note: The Search Box on the sidebar searches this website only.)

Feel free to e-mail Rod at OnTrack Reading (everson.rodney@gmail.com) with any questions, comments or suggestions you have after visiting the website.

Main Topics of the Guide (with brief descriptions)

OnTrack Advanced Code Workbook - Information on the workbook used in the OnTrack Reading Phonics Curriculum, including how to order the workbook and the instructions

The OnTrack Reading Story - How it all started

The Dyslexia Puzzle - Gaining an understanding of dyslexia and its impact

The Diet Piece (of the Puzzle) - The possible impact of essential fatty acids on dyslexia

The Exercise Piece - Does the cerebellum matter, and will certain exercises help?

The Vision Piece - The most important information in the Guide, by far - Be sure to read this section if you’re concerned your child has dyslexia.

The Auditory Piece - Primarily training the skill of phoneme manipulation

The Phonics Piece - Portions of the OnTrack Reading Phonics Curriculum, including the entire multisyllable curriculum

The Policy Piece - Why getting help for your dyslexic child from your school is frustrating, and how it might change

Tidbits - Instructional tips starting with Telling b from d

Junior High Phonics Course - A series of mini-lessons for teaching phonics in any middle school or high school classroom

The Spalding Method - Making an excellent reading method even better

Comprehensive Word Lists - Just what it sounds like

New: A section unrelated to reading instruction titled Economics was recently added, along with the first economics topic, Monetary Policy, an issue that has interested me for over thirty years.

I’ve stopped adding regular commentary to the blog portion of the OnTrack Reading website, but the old entries can still be accessed by paging back through them from this page or using the Search box at the top of the Sidebar. Note, however, that there is very little actual content in the posts. The content is in the pages of the Guide located on the Sidebar.

There will soon be a temporary Home Page while the site is being redesigned to better fit the way the site is now being used. That appears to be as a resource for teachers and parents interested in various aspects of reading including word lists, phonics instruction, vision issues and dyslexia.

I’ll also be adding my email address to the temporary Home Page and welcome any comments, suggestions and questions visitors to this site might have to offer.

Today I’ve added a Page, 2-Syllable Word Lists, that has two word lists that can be downloaded along with a description on how they are used in the OnTrack Reading curriculum.

Both word lists have been used in their present form with nearly 100 young clients over the past several years and have been designed to introduce the multisyllable method used in the OnTrack reading curriculum in an organized manner. The word difficulty of each list proceeds from easier to harder words and the elements of the strategy a child is being taught are gradually introduced.

In the next few days, I’ll also add the three and four syllable lists. It occurs to me that all of these PDF worksheets are getting spread over several Guide Pages and that at some point I should set up a separate section on the sidebar where visitors can find the worksheets more easily, but I will probably wait to see if there is any significant demand for them first.

So, here’s 2-Syllable Word Lists.