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

by Lorraine Peoples, Richard F. Gulliver (Illustrator), About Books (Editor)

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 *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.

Genres: Nonfiction

303 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[CTEP]

For August's book club I read You can teach someone to read: A how-to book for friends, parents and teachers by Lorraine Peoples. The book was recommended to me by a friend completing a year of service with the Minnesota Reading Corps, so I was excited to pick it up from Sumner.

It turns out that this book lived up to the hype, and I regretted not reading it early on in my service year. It is more of a how-to instructional for educators with minimal education training (ie most incoming AmeriCorps members). Large font, easy to follow instructions, and ready to use handouts are all available in this one, folks. I used several charts to develop my own handouts in the Northside Learning Center's computer lab. Sections geared specifically towards English Language Learners are really useful, as well.

I would recommend this book to members that work with New Americans and early literacy. It is practical and easy to follow, not to mention a quick read: score.

[Betty Silvia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book gets right to the point with specific instructions and and example. I value this book to help me become a reading tutor.

[Megengelter · Rating 5 out of 5]

Skimmed...

Book has many examples / procedures to help teach someone to read.

TOC includes:
Unit 1 - getting started - example student, motivation, family (7 sections)
Unit 2 - basic phonics and the most used sight words (14 sections)
Unit 3 - using the consonants and vowels to decode words and the next most used sight words (9 sections)
Unit 4 - more of the most used phonics rules and the next most used sight words (10 sections)
Unit 5 - decoding longer words using syllable rules, more suffixes, compound words, and contractions (5 sections)
Unit 6 - how to make sense from written words (4 sections)
Appendixes - A-I
Bibliography
Index

[BiblioBrandie]

This provides activities and tips for teaching someone to read, but was not exactly what I was looking for. If I find I need help with phonics and sight words, I will come back to this book.