There is no reading part of the brain. Reading is seeing a word string, instantly hearing the sound of each word in your head (like hearing STOP when you see a STOP sign) and using the auditory speech part of your brain to make sense of what you have read.

There are 26 letters in the alphabet and 45 sounds, so letters make more than one sound

A reader does not know if a new word is: 

• Phonetic
• The word is an exception

Use simple mark up within each English to provide all the information a reader needs to unambiguously and confidently sound out the word letter by letter with no rules or exceptions.

1. Letters with no sound characters make their usual sound e.g. “hand”
2. Silent characters are shown e.g. “g” in “sign”
3. A stressed syllable starts with solid syllable breaks •, an unstressed syllable starts with a hollow syllable break ◦ or with no syllable break for the first syllable in a word