No Glamour Reading: Vowels takes students through a progression of steps to master short, long, r-controlled sounds, and vowel digraphs. For the younger student, short vowels are developed in units. In the short a unit, lessons progress to provide practice with at, an, am, ap, ab, ag and ad. These lessons are followed by a review which incorporates all short a word families. The other short vowel units follow the same format.

Helen Zeitzoff's approach demonstrates how, with each lesson progression, the student is able to meet with success.

No Glamour Reading: Vowels will help your students master reading vowel sounds. Sections teach short vowels, long vowels, r-controlled vowels, and vowel digraphs. The lessons progress from easy to more difficult to ensure mastery along the way. Each lesson provides application of decoding skills in various types of exercises including: matching words to pictures, spelling words with specific vowel sounds, crossword puzzles, fill in the blank, unscrambling words to make sentences, listening tasks, completing sentences, rhyming tasks and more...