The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading

Wise, Jessie and Buffington, Sara

ISBN 10: 0972860312 / ISBN 13: 9780972860314

Published by The Well-Trained Mind Press, 2004

About this Item

Edge wear to cover & text; STAIN on side opposite spine.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
• Publisher: The Well-Trained Mind Press
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0972860312
• ISBN 13: 9780972860314
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

A plain-English guide to teaching phonics. Every parent can teach reading―no experts need apply!

Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills―and don't know how to help. Phonics programs are too often complicated, overpriced, gimmicky, and filled with obscure educationalese. The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching reading―from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. This one book supplies parents with all the tools they need.

Over the years of her teaching career, Jessie Wise has seen good reading instruction fall prey to trendy philosophies and political infighting. Now she has teamed with dynamic coauthor Sara Buffington to supply parents with a clear, direct phonics program―a program that gives them the know-how and confidence to take matters into their own hands.

About the Authors

Jessie Wise, a former teacher, is a home education consultant, speaker, and writer. She has decades of experience as a classroom teacher, elementary school principal, private tutor, and educational consultant, and is the co-author of the best-selling The Well-Trained Mind and the groundbreaking elementary grammar text First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind. She lives in Charles City, Virginia.

Sara Buffington has experience as a teacher and children's book editor. Now a freelance writer, Buffington is the co-author of The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading and First Language Lessons, Level Three.