This phonics outline is designed as a guide for parents, as a manual for teachers, and as a handbook for those who wish to improve their reading pronunciation skills. The purposes of the handbook are: (1) to show parents what a person needs to know to become a good reader; (2) to provide a convenient source of words that follow rules of phonics; (3) to show the likenesses in words; and (4) to help teenagers and adults who would like to improve their reading skills. The general aim is to encourage each parent, as the child's first teacher, to prepare the young person for school by teaching him or her certain information and providing him or her with a variety of experiences starting with the names of the letters. (RS)