The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English

The Blount Guide A logical phonetic manual for: 1. - Parents and teachers of reading to small children. 2. - Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly with instructions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. 3. - Spelling teachers. 4. - Writers of books for children who need to know which words are appropriate for which level reading. 5. - Teachers of children with learning disabilities. 6. - Computer programmers who wish to program their computers to teach reading and spelling.

Beverley Blount lives in Mexico City and El Paso, Texas. She is currently completing 28 years of training Montessori teachers in her schools. Blount had an eight -page article published in the award-winning centennial issue of the MONTESSORI LIFE journal and two lead articles in The KAPPAN, the ADK International Teacher's Organization's biannual journal. In 2008, the Mexican National Circle of Reporters awarded her their Golden Sun Statuette for special educational merit. This book is the result of her 46 years in the Montessori system of Education and her lifetime love of reading. She feels that the day one learns to read is possibly the most important day in one's life and that destroying this moment by using crude techniques and not properly preparing the beginning reader nor understanding when they are ready should be considered a crime.