How to Read: a Kick-Start to Reading for Beginners of Any Age - Paperback

by Amy Brotherman (Illustrator), Amy Brotherman (Author)

How to Read is an excellent kick-start for beginning readers. With beautiful color illustrations and lauded for its simplicity, the book nicely pairs phonics and whole language into an old-made-new method of reading instruction for beginners of any age. In 56 short daily lessons, the student will have learned and thoroughly practiced (in sentence context) 125 new words, 50 of which are common core required sight words for public school students by first grade. Teachers of the language arts, whether homeschooling or public school/private school who are looking for great curriculum will find this an invaluable aid for teaching. The book is fit for any age student, from early childhood Pre-K and Kindergarten, to adult literacy.

Author Biography

Amy is a former educator with a degree in interdisciplinary elementary education. She lives with her husband Mike and their three children Daniel, Bellamy, and Sam in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Her parents taught her to read using the method employed in her newly published book "How to Read", which she has in turn used to teach her own children. She enjoys spending time with her family, teaching Jazzercise (jazzercise.com), mentoring adoptive families and birthmothers with Crisis Pregnancy Outreach (cpotulsa.org), and hanging out with the family Golden Retriever Annie.