An Ant - Learn to Read
Home School Version
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Teach Your Child to Read with REAL Phonics™
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Kindergarten Level Books 1-3
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Teach your 4-7 year old the alphabet and the letter sounds, then begin sounding out words in specially written illustrated stories. Synthetic phonics lessons have never been so much fun! Children love the humorous stories and color illustrations.
"An Ant - Learn to Read" includes everything you need to teach a child to read. No teaching experience or prep time is required, just follow the on-page instructions and have fun! You and your child will enjoy reading from the same book together. There is no need for any additional materials, but you can always order an extra set of flash cards to keep in the car or at Grandma's house.
Book 1 Includes 97 full-color illustrated stories for beginning readers. You will teach your child the alphabet, short vowel sounds and the most common consonants. Your beginning reader will be very proud to receive his or her "Certificate of Achievement" at the end of Book 1, which certifies a knowledge of 96 new words.
Book 2 (release date Sept. 2011) is a continuation of Book 1, teaching the long vowel sounds, more consonants and various consonant blends. The familiar characters from Book 1 continue their humorous antics as your child learns to read 155 new words.
Book 3 (release date April 2012) picks up exactly where Book 2 left off and continues to build vocabulary and add new letter sounds.
An Ant - Learn to Read guides you every step of the way with teacher's notes included on each page. If you can read, you can teach your child to read with phonics, even if you have never learned phonics yourself.
Teaching phonics has never been so easy.
Pages 77-79 Read by Emma
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Young Children Learn to Read Quickly With New Phonics Program
Minneapolis, Mn. July 2011.
Not long ago, phonics as a teaching method was nearly abandoned in the wake of new memorization methods for teaching reading in the 1980s and 1990s.
Today, phonics instruction is poised for a major comeback as parents and teachers abandon memorization in favor of phonics.
Jennifer Weestrand, Lakeville, Mn. is teaching daughter Emma 4, to read using “An Ant - Learn to Read,” a new approach created by Kallie Woods.
Here’s the big difference: “An Ant” teaches with illustrated stories rather than traditional word lists.
“Emma is soooo proud that she is reading words!” says mom Jennifer. “She caught on much faster than I expected. My first reaction to this book was that the color and illustrations were incredible. I thought right away that it would be attractive to children and would keep their attention.”
Jennifer had been thinking about getting a jump-start on teaching Emma to read ever since she found out she would miss the cutoff to start Kindergarten by a matter of days.
“I didn’t want her getting bored in her second year of preschool, so I thought it would be great to start learning some Kindergarten concepts before she actually starts.”
A good reader herself, Jennifer felt confident in teaching Emma to read: “The book seemed like it would easily guide me as to where to start and what types of things to focus on in the beginning, and as we progressed further.”
Emma did not need any coaxing to try the book. Her mother explains, “Emma was very excited about trying the book and she really liked the pictures. When she knew she was doing a good job and getting the words right, she wanted to keep going and going! She asks to read from the book of anyone who hasn’t heard her read yet. She is very proud and very confident that she can do it, even getting to the point where she said, ‘Mommy, some of the words are EASY!’”
An Ant - Learn to Read, 145 pages, soft cover, $34.99 is available from Amazon.com. The first few lessons from the beginning of the book may be downloaded free at the publisher’s web site: www.BrodenBooks.com.
Author Kallie Woods says, “Early literacy taught at home is very important today, as many schools still do not teach phonics. Kids who master phonics at a young age will retain this important skill for life.”
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