Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading

An updated, easier-to-use edition of the program that helped a million parents teach their children to read. Bundle includes: The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Instructor Book (paperback) The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Student Book (paperback)

This bundle gives parents everything they need to teach their children to read, from the simplest letter sounds up to a fourth grade level. The Instructor Book, featuring a new introduction by Dr. Susan Wise Bauer, guides parents step by step through each lesson, with easy-to-follow, scripted text. The Student Book gives students clear examples of each letter, word, and sentence in their own book, building their confidence from the very beginning. This classic phonics program has taught millions of children to read, and now it’s even easier to use. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading lets any parent give their children the gift of lifelong literacy. The program is easily expandable to include multiple students in a home or school setting.

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.

Susan Wise Bauer is a writer, educator, and historian. Her previous books include the Writing With Ease, Writing With Skill, and Story of the World series from Well-Trained Mind Press, as well as The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had, Rethinking School, The Story of Western Science: From the Writings of Aristotle to the Big Bang Theory, and the History of the World series, all from W. W. Norton. She has a Ph.D. in American Studies from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, as well as an M.A. in seventeenth-century literature and a Master of Divinity in Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Literature. For fifteen years, she taught literature and composition at the College of William and Mary.