You Can Teach Someone to Read: A How-To Book for Friends, Parents, and Teachers : Step-By-Step Detailed Directions to Provide Anyone the Necessary Tools to Easily Teach Someone to r

This user-friendly book Riwith 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, anyone 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 early basic 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. Lists of consonant and vowel sounds, sight and phonetic words, plus rules used to figure out words are included in the Appendices.

Lorraine Peoples has degrees in elementary education, elementary curriculum and instruction, and a certification for elementary administration from Drake University. She taught reading to elementary school children in Iowa and Arizona public and private schools for thirty-three years. Peoples is a life member of the National Education Association, and the Arizona Education Association. Lorraine has taught over 50 workshops to educators on subjects including reading, science, and team teaching and individualizing. She also trained and mentored 20 student teachers. Peoples is listed in several Who's Who editions including Who's Who in America 2000, under the name Esther Lorraine Peoples. "You Can Teach Someone to Read" was written while Lorraine and her husband, Graydon, traveled throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada. They continue to travel, visiting family and giving reading workshops, book signings, fundraisers, speeches and consultations.