How then does the structure and organization of the Bannatyne Program differ from regular school reading programs?
The Bannatyne Program is literally based and structured on how all the facets of the English language actually work in human beings–in terms of linguistics, orthography, syntax, grammar, psycholinguistics, neuropsychology, memory, phonetics, syllabication, many usage frequencies, multiple motivations, symbol graphics, comprehension, readability and legibility. It is very rare for regular reading programs to be based on more than one of these facets, and even that one is usually a confused and garbled version of it. For example, all the many phonics reading programs I have researched use lots of phonemes and graphemes in their readers that have not yet been taught by those programs or teachers. Of course, the teacher or parent using the Bannatyne Program does not have to understand the complexities of the above mentioned subjects and disciplines because their essential content has been seamlessly embedded in the Program. However, some elementary aspects of the above factors must be und
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