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You Can Teach Someone To Read: A How-to Book for Friends, Parents, and Teachers: Step by Step Detailed Directions to Provide Anyone the Necessary Tools to Easiloy Teach Someone to Read
by Lorraine Peoples
"You Can Teach Someone to Read" raises confidence levels. It gives any reader user-friendly directions for teaching a person of any age to be a reader, while both instructor and student experience success and satisfaction.
Ideal for parents to reinforce skills, volunteers in literacy programs, classroom teachers, home school educators, tutors and friends who want to teach a friend.
Divided into six units, this award winning illustrated book includes: step-by-step uncomplicated detailed directions, sight words used most often, phonicss rules used most often, basic comprehension skills, tips on how students learn best, index and appendices, and activities, games, cartoons, charts and yarns called "Silly Stories to make reading fun to learn, and meaningful.
Free reading tips, changed monthly, can be found at www.youcanteachsomeonetoread.com.
Professional Reviews
Best How-to Book
...best how-to book we reviewed in 2000. ...Impressively a person does not have to have a teaching background in order to execute what is being taught, making it a wonderful resource for anyone with the motivation to teach someone to read. -- Today's Librarian Magazine
Excellent for Literacy Volunteers
...excellent supplement to our volunteeer literacy program. The lessons, which feature approaches in whole language and phonetics, enable the tutor to draw upon quick strategies to bridge learning gaps in a variety of learning styles. The assessments are solid and provide for tutors to adjust lessons according to the pace of the learning. -- Coordinator of Volunteer Literacy Tutoring, Clackamas, OR
It Truly Works
This book will provide parents and teachers with a systematic approach to teaching children to read that will truly work. Not only will the children learn to read; they will also enjoy the process and become lifelong readers...This is a book every parent should own to help their children learn or become better readers. -- Executive Director, Tesseract School, PV, AZ
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