Over the past 25 years my wife and I have helped
to settle 15 refugees from 4 different countries and 3 different
exchange students from 2 different countries. In this experience
we have dealt with 4 different languages. Teaching English as a
second language has been challenging, rewarding, and sometimes
humorous. In spite of our struggles we have been able to
communicate with each other fairly well. The biggest difficulty
the students and the refugees expressed was the multiple
spellings of the same phonemes, or individual sounds, in the
English language. For instance the long vowel sound of letter
“a” can be spelled 8 different ways. This makes it very
difficult for students to learn the English language. As a
reading teacher of learning disabled students I understood this
problem very well and was able to offer some assistance.
Kword-read is the result of my efforts. I hope it is beneficial
to you.