Ordering Price List (Jan., 2008)
OUR MOST FREQUENT ORDER: The Saltmine & Hifwip reading package (See description below). Please indicate that you want the "S&H package" and send $42.50, plus Media or Priority postage, to TATRAS, POB 44093, Tacoma, WA, 98444. Make checks payable to: TATRAS.
Postage:
Media mail: $3.10,
Priority mail: $8.90. (When either My First Bible and/or Taylor Timer are shipped Priority mail with S&H order there is no postage charge for those two items.)
WA Residents. Only media mail rate will be used. S&H reading package plus postage and sales tax is $49.60.
Telephone Help-Line. For over twenty years Teach America To Read & Spell (TATRAS®) has provided free telephone help to teachers and parents who were either using our materials or searching for solutions to their childrens' reading/spelling problems. We will continue this service for as long as it is possible. Frank Rogers
1. Saltmine & Hifwip Reading Package. $42.50, Media shipping, $3.10.
This unique program teaches the most often occurring phonograms first so that a student can decode the most often occurring words in our language enough times to make them instantly known. This starts him reading for pleasure and writing at the earliest possible time. The package contains:
The Penny Primer Starter Set. If your child knows the names of most of the letters of the alphabet and is less than six years old, start him sounding out words, printing and spelling with this set. The letters and words in the Penny Primer booklet are from the first lesson in the Saltmine & Hifwip manual. The set comes in a separate box containing a Penny Primer, a "finger clock" letter tracing template, a pencil & pencil gripper, a wide-line primary pad, Penny Primer phonogram flash cards and a " 'gram rack" to hold flash cards for decoding (sounding out) and spelling.
These simple materials will allow you to provide the most important reading lesson your child will ever receive. It will convince most parents that they can teach their children to read and spell at home and that it will be easy and fun. It does particularly well in giving a slower pre-schooler an easy, methodical, enjoyable introduction to reading and spelling.
Other items: A DVD slide-show and video showing parents how to use the materials in the S&H package. Also a 1/2" three-ring binder containing the Great Saltmine & Hifwip Direct Phonics Reading Program manual, a wall chart, and an inter-lined exercise book.
On page 37 of the Manual there is a special "fast track" for older remedial readers. (Because helping remedial/slow/poor comprehending readers can be a complex situation, for best results TATRAS must be called for assistance. No charge.)
2. My First Bible in Pictures by Kenneth Taylor with TATRAS Word Guides. Word Guides allow students who have learned first 20 TATRAS phonograms to read My First Bible with minimum effort. Sentence by sentence, story by story, the guides point out irregular words and jump-ahead phonograms. Jump-ahead phonograms are phonograms encountered in MFB but not yet studied in the S&H manual. Such phonograms are taught as they are encountered in MFB. Guides cover the first 45 stories in the book by which time the child will read the remaining stories without need for a guide. Realistic artwork, large print, educational topics and short text (50-word stories) make MFB an excellent first-reader choice for many, but not all, beginning readers.
My First Bible in Pictures (MFB): $9.00 Postage: $2.00. TATRAS MFB Word Guides: $3.00, postpaid. No postage charged for MFB if it is ordered with an S&H package that is being shipped by priority mail.
3. TATRAS Phonogram Wall Chart. $5.00, postage, $1.00. (Three or more are $4.00 each, postpaid.) This 19" x 27" chart lists the phonograms but does not have the sound symbols. This wall chart is included in #1, above.
4. Interlined Exercise Books. $1.75, postpaid. (At curriculum fairs or at seminars, $1.25.) When completed these books will be a treasured reminder of your work with your children.
5. Taylor Timer. One-minute daily timings are essential when working one-on-one with the TATRAS program. One-minute timings, once a day, allow reading progress to be charted. Great morale booster, particularly for slower students. Comes with AAA battery. $10.00. Shipping, $2.00.
6. Pencil Grippers. One gripper (Postpaid) $1.00. Three Grippers (Postpaid) $2.70. Four or more (Postpaid) 65 cents each.
7. Red Pencils. Red Correction Pencil (Postpaid) $1.50.
To replace worn-out Saltmine & Hifwip manuals, return old manual to TATRAS and include $9.00 for postpaid replacement. Contact TATRAS first.
For program help or additional Information call Frank Rogers at (253) 531-0312.
Mail: TATRAS, Post Office Box 44093, Tacoma, WA 98444-4093
Email & PayPal address: tatras@verticalphonics.com.