N J Decandia

First Reading Book, Teacher's Edition: Group Lessons to Turn Non-readers into Readers N J Decandia

Publisher Marketing: First Reading Book, Teacher's Edition Group Lessons to Turn Non-Readers Into Readers *Detailed Lesson Plans *Systematic Phonics Instruction Teacher's Edition Includes: *Letter to Educators *Letter to Parents - Introducing the Program *Review / Assessment Lessons with Plans *Individual Assessment Form Inspired by 2 Preschool Directors. Author asks former Montessory Preschool Director, How'd you teach your son - name withheld for privacy] to read? Son was reading on a 2nd Grade level in his and author's daughter's preschool class the prior year.] With 3-letter words replies former Montessori Preschool Director. With this answer, the other Preschool Director doing Sound of the Week, a letter-sound tape in the car (and whatever other powers that be) it dawns on the author, if they know 3 letter-sounds, they can read a 3 letter word. But, let's start with the easiest 3-letter words (short vowels) -Proprietary Page Design- >White on outskirts of page focuses attention. But author's daughter is in Kindergarten (asking to learn to read) - so lessons have to be short. > 5-minute lessons National Reading Panel (http: //www. NationalReadingPanel.org) studied how children learn best to read. Here's what they concluded: Kindergartners who receive systematic beginning phonics instruction read better and spell better than other children, and first graders are better able to decode and spell words. http: //www. NationalReadingPanel.org/FAQ/faq.htm#10. But what is a system? A system is organized. First Reading Book is organized. >Short Vowels in Section 1. >Long Vowels, Blends, Segmenting of Big Words in Section 2. The author also knew that color pictures would distract from the process. His daughter would see color pictures and say, Dad - I don't want to do this. I want to watch TV or I want to go out and play. So, the author spent a pain-staking amount of time choosing the most interesting gray-scale (re-publishable) clip art. The pictures are gorgeous..., says -W. G., Certified Reading Specialist >No color to avoid distraction, >But cute (aka: gorgeous) pictures to keep interest. All they need to know is the alphabet to start The Phonics Reading Book (TPRB) provides the same coverage with extra help on the reading pages. First Reading Book (FRB) provides a cleaner look to the reading pages (again proprietary page design).