Reading Skills, Education 

Decoding and Encoding English Words: A Handbook for Language Tutors by Dr. Thomas Baldwin Jones might well be termed "A Book for all Linguistic Reasons" since it is as equally appropriate as a college text for introduing new reading teachers to the phonetic-rule basis of English, as an intorduction for the young linguist, as supplementary material for the speech therapist, as a reference in the whole-language classroom, as a vocabulary enhancement for the ACT or SAT test taker, as a parental reference for aiding a child's linguistic development (especially the home schoolers), as a guide for the conscientious student wanting to make independent progress in the language, as a resource for the ambitious adult who just wants to learn more about the nature and structre of English, as a guide for the adult and senior classroom reading help volunteers, as it is for tutors and teachers of students with special language problems. A perusal of Decoding and Encoding English Words will reveal unusually complete presentations of phonics, spelling rules, grammar, the prefixes, roots and suffixes of Old English, Latin and Greek, borrowings from other languages, words from names and places, a short history of the English language, a consideration of Black English Vernacular, and more. An added bonus is the inclusion of a mini-card drill pack. - from Amzon