There is no law  which says  that we cannot teach reading with only  a few letters at a  time. 

This manual starts with  seven letters combined to form nine simple words.

New letters are introduced gradually and the reader "touches base" at Page 152 with the letter Z. There is  an average of 200 days in a school year to master the 180 pages of the manual..

Word recognition is strengthened by the repetition of already learned words.  New words are formed  from out of the letters which are introduced on a staggered basis -to avoid confusion of shapes, forms and sounds.

The process is repeated throughout  the manual  by the use of simple words and sentence patterns. The texts are also springboards for discussion.

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