STORYBOOK # 2 SECOND EDITION SING SPELL READ AND WRITE

by Modern Curriculum Press

Sing, Spell, Read & Write is a phonics-based program that uses a 36-step program of carefully sequenced steps to teach reading, writing, and spelling. Delivering explicit phonics instruction via a multisensory approach, Sing, Spell, Read & Write reaches every avenue to the brain and addresses every student's learning style. For more than two decades, veteran educator Sue Dickson developed and field-tested this program in her own classroom. Where other reading programs were failing the students who were struggling the most, Mrs. Dickson saw first-hand the amazing results her students achieved when she combined music with multimodal teaching strategies. Using look, listen, point, sing-along, and echo routines along with gross motor and fine motor activities, the program activitely engages the senses and effectively reaches all types of learners. Virtually every child is assured of success. Today, the program has a proven, nationwide track record and the soundness of such an approach is strongly supported by current research on brain function, language acquisition, and reading.

Paperback

Published August 25, 2000

About the author

Modern Curriculum Press, Inc., (MCP) was an educational materials publisher founded in Berea in 1963 by Alice Lorenz-Baer to provide reading programs for kindergarten through third grade stressing the teaching of phonetic word-attack skills, a strategy which had been almost completely discarded since the 1920s for the sight-word approach. A reaction among teachers in favor of the older method enabled MCP to begin doubling its sales yearly from the beginning. In 1971 it merged with Reardon, Baer & Company, the STRONGSVILLE educational publishing concern of Baer's husband, F. William Baer. MCP grew into a sixty-five worker operation and opened an office in Toronto. Some twenty corporations made approaches to acquire the company, which was finally sold in 1972 to Esquire, Inc. Mrs. Baer continued to manage the company until her retirement in 1975.

Esquire in turn was bought by Gulf-Western, which evolved into Paramount Communications, one of the industry's leading publishers of books and educational materials. In 1994, Paramount was acquired by Viacom, which subsequently moved MCP operations to New Jersey and Indiana. MCP became an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Viacom's U.S. publishing unit. In 1998, Simon and Schuster sold its educational, professional, and reference units, including MCP, to Pearson PLC, a London-based publishing firm. Pearson incorporated MCP into a new operation, called Pearson Education. As of 2006, textbooks bearing the MCP imprint continued to be published by Pearson.

Reviews

[Aria · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book just teaches you more how to read. It's easy peasy.

[Eva · Rating 2 out of 5]

short vowel e words

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

As far as early readers go, we really like the SSRW 1st grade set. This one focuses primarily on short e and gives the early reader lots of practice with very few distracting words that frustrate.