YOU Can Teach Someone to Read, 2nd Edition: A How-to Book for Friends, Parents, and Teachers: Step-by-Step Detailed Directions to Provide Any Reader the Necessary Tools to Easily Teach Someone to Read - Softcover

Lorraine Peoples

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0967098483 ISBN 13: 9780967098487

Publisher: GLoBooks Publishing LLC, 2011

Synopsis

This book makes teaching reading easy, fun and satisfying for learner and teacher. This user-friendly book with step-by-step directions gives any reader the tools to teach someone else to read. With easy to follow lesson plans, built in evaluation, and tips on how to reach students in the way they learn best, any reader can teach a child, teen or adult, an individual or group, a beginning or at-risk reader. The book's emphasis is on the important basic reading skills of: *Memorizing a sight word vocabulary of words used most often, which can't be figured out by using the most commonly used phonics rules. *Using the most commonly used phonics rules to figure out words used most often, which don't need to be memorized, and obtaining a firm knowledge of how to apply those rules to future unknown words. *Developing basic comprehension skills to assure that the reader understands what the words are saying. Check lists are provided for determining how the student learns best. Multiple activities and unique yarns, called "Silly Stories," and cartoon illustrations make phonic rules and sight words fun to learn and more memorable. Included are: A Table of Contents, Detailed Index and Appendices - including lists of consonant and vowel sounds, sight and phonetic words, plus rules used to figure out words are included in the Appendices.

About this title

From the Publisher

This book guides the user to locate and teach the student's missing phonics skills. After discovering that students with poor reading skills were missing essential elements of phonics rules - much like a ladder missing a rung or two - author Lorraine Peoples found that when those basic skills were taught, students soon advanced toward good reading.

Large studies have proven that beginning readers must learn phonics.

*reading gains for students taught the phonics way averaged twice those made by students using the whole language method.

*To improve reading for those having difficulty, learning and using phonics is essential.

An ideal book for parents to use at home to guarantee their children are not missing out, it also works well for parents who are homeschooling, volunteers in literacy programs, classroom instructors, charter schools, or for friends who use it to help someone who doesn't want others to know they can't read. While one might think a book like this is only for children, adults also enjoy the activities and "Silly Stories" while learning to read.

About the Author

After retiring from 33 years of classroom teaching and administrating, Lorraine Peoples wrote You Can Teach Someone to Read. It was soon awarded the best how-to book in its category, by Today's Librarian. She has since given over 150 workshops, seminars and book signings at bookstores (mostly Barnes & Noble), libraries and literacy groups throughout the country. Through the book's website, she has advised hundreds of individuals internationally with their reading concerns. Lorraine worked with the staff at The Phoenix Lodestar Resource Center to develop a viable program for homeless adults and trained volunteers to use the program. In various settings, she has trained youth and adults how to teach others to read. She volunteer teaches reading for some ELL students in Holmes Elementary School, Mesa, Arizona. Lorraine also serves on the NEA (National Education Association) Advisory Panel. Author, Lorraine Peoples, has degrees in elementary education, and elementary curriculum and instruction, and a certification in elementary administration -- all from Drake University. During her thirty-three years of teaching elementary age children reading and other subjects, she also gave fifty-two workshops to educators on subjects including reading, science, team teaching and/or individualizing. In addition she trained twelve student teachers and mentored eight first year teachers. For sixteen years, the author taught first through fifth in Des Moines and Marshalltown, Iowa public schools and was active on various curriculum committees. The next seventeen years she taught in private schools in Phoenix and Paradise Valley, AZ. While at Phoenix Country Day School she was Acting Dean of Lower School for a semester and active on curriculum and evaluation committees. At Tesseract School, she was also Elementary Program Director for several years. Lorraine founded libraries in Cement, Oklahoma and Liscomb, Iowa, and trained corps of women in service clubs to operate them. She is a lifetime NEA (National Education Association) member and serves on the NEA Advisory Panel. In addition she is a SPAN (Small Publishers of North America) and YEP (Your Experience Counts) member. Lorraine is listed in various Who's Who in America Editions from 1986 to the present. She is also a lifetime honored member of the Cambridge Who's Who. Lorraine and her husband, Graydon, live in Chandler, Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: GLoBooks Publishing LLC
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0967098483
• ISBN 13: 9780967098487
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 344
• Illustrator: Richard F. Gulliver, Illustrator