Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader

In Book Love: Help Your Child Grow from Reluctant to Enthusiastic Reader award-winning educator and parent Melissa Taylor gives busy parents of kids ages three to ten engaging, playful, out-of-the box ideas for growing a reader, assisting kids who are learning to read, and gently encouraging reluctant readers. Just a few of the many helpful insights and strategies she shares include: - The most common reasons why kids find it hard to learn to read or may hate to read (too boring, too tricky, too blurry, too "sitty")-and what to do about them. - Activities and product recommendations to facilitate letter recognition, rhyming, sight word skills, phonics, and fluency. - Approaches for improving word attack and reading comprehension. - Book lists organized by kids' interests. - Printable sight word flashcards and word strategy bookmarks. Packed with practical, bite-sized ideas that get children reading and loving books, Book Love can be your go-to guide for reading help for kids.

A mother of two girls and an award-winning educator, Melissa Taylor holds a Master's Degree in Global Education, with expertise in early childhood and elementary education and a focus on literacy and play. She has taught all subjects for the elementary grades and preschool.

Melissa writes about education, learning, children's literature, technology, and advocacy for publications online and in print, including Parenting.com, USA Today Health, The Writer, Scholastic Parent and Child, Working Mother.com, Babble.com, Colorado Parent Magazine, Denver Magazine. In 2010, she won the coveted Colorado delegate spot for Parenting Magazine's Education and Learning Mom Congress. In January 2012, Entrepreneur magazine featured Taylor as the "'Trep of the Month."

Melissa created and writes the highly popular and award-winning learning blog Imagination Soup . Imagination Soup is a PBS Kids VIP Blog and was selected as the Scholastic Parent and Child Magazine Best Reading & Book Blog for 2010, as well as for the Circle of Moms Top 25 Teacher Mom Blogs and Top 25 Tech Moms.

Bilingual in English and Spanish, Taylor has taught English as a Second Language, taught Spanish-speaking children in inner-city Denver Public Schools and in the federal migrant program, and served as a literacy trainer in underperforming schools for the Public Education & Business Coalition (PEBC). She was a four-time consecutive winner of Outstanding Teacher in Douglas County.

Melissa served as a panelist for the Cybils 2011 Book Apps and the 2010 Early Readers & Early Chapter Books. She is a member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA), Education Writers Association and the Denver Woman's Press Club.

For more information about Melissa, visit melissatayloronline.com or email her at melissa@imaginationsoup.net.