Teaching a Preschooler to Read: Phonics for Parents and Other Care-Givers

This book provides a commonsense, phonetic, step-by-step method for teaching any child, age 2 through age 10, how to read. Many parents don’t realize their preschooler is capable of learning this skill. Or you may be a parent whose grade-school-age child is struggling with reading in school. Or you may be a homeschooler. To all these parents, author Stephen Parker encourages you to take control of this vitally important aspect of your child’s self-esteem and future academic success.

Teaching a Preschooler to Read provides you with a complete phonics-based program that will make your child an independent reader in 12–18 months. Phonics-based instruction uses no “sight words.” Instead, you’ll teach your child to read unfamiliar words by decoding them: matching their letters with appropriate sounds and then blending those sounds together. Phonics makes reading and spelling logical for your child by revealing the code which underlies these skills. If you can read, you have the expertise to teach your child. Parker will guide you at each step along the way. Who better to perform this task than you?