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The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Author: Jessie Wise, Sara Buffington
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 ...  more » 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.
ISBN-13: 9780972860314
ISBN-10: 0972860312
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Pages: 400
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Publisher: W. W. Norton Company
Book Type: Paperback
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great book to teach your young child to read


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