1. In a method of teaching reading, the steps of 1. presenting the student with material to be read in an orthography consisting of: a. the words to be read in standard type; b. symbols representing the sounds of vowel phonemes and consonant digraphs appearing in the material proximately located to the phonemes and digraphs to assist in pronouncing the sounds, c. markings to designate combined letters forming a single sound, and d. numerical designations in directional sequence of each sound in each word, and 2.
2. sequencing the sounds of each syllable in the direction of increasing numbers. 2. A method as in claim 1 wherein the symbols associated with the standard type consist of representations signifying (a) the short vowel sounds, (b) the long vowel sounds, and (c) the vowel sound associated in English with "moon", "house", "car", "nurse", "book", "saw", "or", "all", and "boy".