The Red Well-Read Reader-containing 361 fun, rhyming, thought-provoking stories-teaches children of all ages how to comprehend the written word, not just straightforward expressed meanings but, more important, implied meanings too. Most important, it teaches children how, not what, to think Systematically, using phonics intensely, the stories cover the entire phonetic structure of the English language. There is one story for every family of words (viz., similar words sharing a common ending spelling (phoneme). STORY 1, Nabbed, through STORY 32, The Razzmatazz, cover the "short a" sound;...