Rapid Literacy Resources

INTRODUCING A NEW BOOK ON ORAL ENGLISH , TITLED,
'ORAL ENGLISH GUIDE'

Did you know that over 80 percent of SS 3 students perform poorly in the ‘Test of Orals’ paper of the English language examination in WAEC and NECO?

The fact is, many students struggle with sounds, pronunciation, word stress, and other essential spoken English skills, due to a lack of proper phonetic instruction and adequate phonetic resources.

The scarcity of high - quality, comprehensive resources significantly hampers the teaching and learning of oral English. Existing materials lack sufficient phonetic and phonological contents. As a result, many students struggle to understand the subject and, consequently face difficulties passing it in exams.

This book, ‘Oral English Guide for Secondary Schools', is a brand new, well researched and well crafted Oral English' course book. It’s a high - quality resource, offering an extensive range of phonetic and phonological contents. Complex concepts, like:

•Speech sounds
•Consonant clusters
•Syllables
•Word stress
•Sentence stress
•Emphatic stress
•Rhythm
•Rhyme
•Intonation
•Common Pronunciation errors,
among others, are simplified into easy lessons, ensuring that students can identify phonetic symbols and relate them to appropriate sounds, articulate vowel and consonant sounds and their spelling variants, distinguish between stressed and unstressed syllables, recognize shifts in meaning caused by emphatic stress, interpret meaning through changes in intonation, and speak English with impressive diction, among others.

In a nutshell, this book, is ‘Test of Orals Made Easy’.

So, if you're a student preparing for oral English exams or an English teacher seeking reliable resources on oral English, this book is exactly what you need.

For inquiry and order, contact us on: 0806 912 9716, 0807 163 0342.

INTRODUCING 'ORAL ENGLISH GUIDE'

Did you know that over 80 percent of SS 3 students perform poorly in the ‘Test of Orals’ paper of the English language examination in WAEC and NECO?

The fact is, many students struggle with sounds, pronunciation, word stress, and other essential spoken English skills, due to a lack of proper phonetic instruction and adequate phonetic resources.

The scarcity of high - quality, comprehensive resources significantly hampers the teaching and learning of oral English. Existing materials lack sufficient phonetic and phonological contents. As a result, many students struggle to understand the subject and, consequently face difficulties passing it in exams.

This book, ‘Oral English Guide for Secondary Schools', is a brand new, well researched and well crafted Oral English' course book. It’s a high - quality resource, offering an extensive range of phonetic and phonological contents. Complex concepts, like:

•Speech sounds
•Consonant clusters
•Syllables
•Word stress
•Sentence stress
•Emphatic stress
•Rhythm
•Rhyme
•Intonation
•Common Pronunciation errors,
among others, are simplified into easy lessons, ensuring that students can identify phonetic symbols and relate them to appropriate sounds, articulate vowel and consonant sounds and their spelling variants, distinguish between stressed and unstressed syllables, recognize shifts in meaning caused by emphatic stress, interpret meaning through changes in intonation, and speak English with impressive diction, among others.

In a nutshell, this book, is ‘Test of Orals Made Easy’.

AND THAT’S NOT ALL. We’ve got the best Phonics and oral English series for the nursery and primary schools, titled, “Complete Phonics and Oral English”, designed to spark confidence and fluency in pupils, from the very start.

'Complete Phonics’ is the answer to children’s literacy challenges –from letter sound association to sounds spelling relationships, decoding, pronunciation, and reading. With rich phonological contents presented in a clear, engaging way, Complete Phonics empowers every child to pronounce words accurately, speak clearly, and read fluently.

For inquiry and order, contact us on: 0806 912 9716, 0807 163 0342.

THANKS FOR PATRONAGE
Hello!
We say a big thank you to all the schools that have been using our Oral English and Phonics books, titled, 'Complete Phonics and Oral English'. We truly appreciate your support and pray that God will continue to grow your schools

We're happy to inform you that we now have a study book on oral English for secondary schools, titled, 'Oral English Guide for Secondary Schools', designed to help students excel in the 'Test of Orals' paper of the English language examination - English Paper 3.

As you prepare for the new school session starting in September, kindly remember to include our books on your list.
We remain committed to providing quality resources that make learning and teaching of oral English and Phonics both effective and enjoyable.

Thank you once again for choosing us. We look forward to your patronage in the coming session as from September, 2025.
Thank you.

Mr Justin Cin
Rapid Literacy Resources Consultancy.

REASONS WHY TEACHERS NEED PHONICS TRAINING

The major problem confronting primary schools in Nigeria today is how to teach pronunciation, reading and spoken English effectively. It's obvious that there is a persistent problem of underperformance in reading, pronunciation and speaking both in public and private schools in Nigeria. Wrong pronunciation and poor reading and in most cases inability to read at all have become an endemic problem in primary schools because of lack of capacity and wrong instructional methods.

Lack of capacity in ‘Explicit Systematic Phonics’ is a major problem hindering effective teaching of reading, pronunciation and speaking in most primary schools. Systematic Phonics is globally acknowledged as the best way to get children from age 3 to begin to read and the most effective method of helping children develop logical skills that help them master the basics of reading, pronunciation and speaking very quickly, but over 97 percent of teachers do not have phonics skill or necessary understanding of the concept of phonics and how to use it to teach reading and pronunciation. This is because universities and colleges of education in Nigeria do not train teachers on Systematic Phonics because they do not offer it specifically as a course. Lack of Phonics training by universities leaves a huge gap in teachers’ Phonics knowledge and ability to use it to teach early literacy skills. The inevitable result is that most children can neither read nor speak properly and those who try to read find it difficult to pronounce words accurately. For instance, pupils mispronounce common words like ‘burn,’ rub, work, leopard, machete, weapon, creature, stipend, cleanse, stifle, fatal, legal, build, come, word, dwarf, thwart, label, crèche, brochure, and a host of others because their teachers cannot teach sounds-spelling relationships, decoding processes and other word recognition skills required to break words down into sounds to figure out their correct pronunciation.

Further, due to lack of skill in ‘Systematic Phonics and phonetics ’, teachers are unable to teach the oral components in the pupils’ English language textbooks. The English textbook used by primary schools contains oral English from which children learn pronunciation, reading and speaking, but teachers skip those topics because they do not have the ability to teach it.

Besides, phonics is new in Nigeria having been introduced just in 2006. Most teachers are still learning the ropes on how to use it effectively. Again, the absence of adequate teacher resource materials is another capacity related problem for teachers.

Moreover, the method of teaching reading and pronunciation in most primary schools is partly the reason children cannot pronounce words accurately or read fluently. Some schools still use either the ‘Whole Word’ approach or the wrong types of phonics to teach reading, pronunciation and speaking. Those methods are wrong because they are non-skills based. They do not teach learners letter-sounds knowledge, decoding processes and sounds-spelling relationship skills which children need to break written words down into sounds. Instead, the methods teach learners to recognize the form of written words and memorize their spelling and pronunciation and read by recalling memorized words. Reading requires children to interpret and say the sounds of the letters inside a written word. But the method used by some schools does not teach learners logical skills that can help them interpret written letters, associate them with corresponding sounds and pronounce words accurately.
All these problems are the reason teachers have not been able to inculcate logical literacy skills in pupils. The inevitable result is that most pupils have literacy challenges like word decoding, letter sound association, pronunciation accuracy, fluent reading, proper speaking, etc.
THE SOLUTION
Teacher training on ‘Explicit Systematic Phonics’ is the solution to the problem of poor teaching of pronunciation, reading and speaking in schools. Phonics teacher training builds teachers’ capacity to directly teach children sounds-spelling
relationships in a systematic manner so that children could use the knowledge to read, speak and write.

Training is necessary for many reasons. First, Phonics is a new idea to Nigerian teachers as it is not a part of their training in the university. Therefore, the training will familiarize them with the concept and techniques of phonics. Secondly, Phonics method is very important for teaching children because it is more effective and faster than any other method in helping them develop skills that accelerate pronunciation, speaking and reading mastery. Thirdly, the training will equip teachers to teach children letter-sounds, sounds-spelling relationships and decoding processes in a systematic and sequential manner. Above all, the training will build teachers’ capacity to teach the oral components of English in the pupils’ English language textbooks which they have always ignored or abandoned.

It's important for schools to be careful when selecting who trains their teachers. This is because the capacity of the trainer would determine the outcome of the training. Most Phonics training firms are either fake or inept.
WHY WE ARE THE BEST CHOICE

Without sounding immodest, Rapid Literacy Resources is the best firm in Phonics teacher training not only because we deliver results that meet the training needs of teachers but also because we have an unparalleled resource team with vast experience. Our training is not limited to just ‘letter-sounds’ as is the case with other firms which limit their training to Letters sounds for want of capacity.

CONCLUSION
Training teachers is necessary because teaching English literacy requires a certain level of Phonics background which the teachers don’t have because they are not trained in it in the university. Therefore, teachers need training to acquire sufficient understanding of key skills involved in using phonics to teach reading, pronunciation and speaking. To ask your teachers to use phonics methods without training is like asking a car driver to fly an aircraft or putting a round peg in a square hole.
Again, engaging a lone visiting teacher to teach Phonics or Diction is like expecting a lone tree to make a forest. Using a visiting Phonics teacher is only a temporary interventionist action to allow a school have time to train its teachers to take over. If all the teachers are trained and get involved with Phonics and diction in their respective classes, the result would be excellent, immediate and widespread.

INTRODUCING COMPLETE PHONICS BOOK

‘Complete Phonics’ is a well researched and well written phonics and diction study textbook. The book offers an impeccable platform for Nursery and Primary school pupils to learn English sounds and be able to pronounce words accurately, read fluently and speak with impressive diction. ‘Complete Phonics’ is the only one of its kind in Nigeria today, unmatched by any other in contents. The book teaches logical literacy skills like sounds - spelling relationships and decoding processes among others which children need to be able to break written words down into sounds and pronounce them. With ‘Complete Phonics’, children don’t struggle to pronounce words, read or speak.

Some of the features of the book include:
Sight Word, Sound Drill, Sound Recognition Activities, Decoding, Blend Drill, Word Building, Reading, Dictation, Pronunciation Drill, Speaking Practice, exercises, etc.

As an incentive, we give a one-day free training on phonics and oral English teaching skills to the teachers of schools that buy our books to build their capacity to teach not only phonics or diction but also the oral components in the pupils’ English language textbook which teachers often skip due to lack of capacity.

For inquiry and order, contact us on: 0806 912 9716, 0807 163 0342, or any of our marketers.