by Rita D. Newman Bs Ed (Editor), Nick J. Decandia Cpa (Author)
First Reading Book walks a non-reader, who knows just the alphabet, to a reader, first of short-vowel books, in Section 1 - where we teach all of the short-vowels and consonant sounds, except /q/ - which, as you know, always takes the /u/, so we took that out and put that in Section 2 - Blends, Long-Vowels and Segmenting of Long Words. We also cover punctuation and some sight words in Section 2. In Section 1, we also have Reading Pages, Review Pages and "Phrase Reading Pages" - which help transition students from reading one word on a page to reading sentences.
Author Biography
Contributing Author - Rita D. Newman has a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Early Childhood Education, successfully Directed a Preschool for 23 years, as well as taught Kindergarten for a couple of years. Nick has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He's a CPA, with a second Bachelor's Degree in Finance/Accounting - from the University of New Mexico. He currently does Audit work for the State of Florida.