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YOU CAN TEACH SOMEONE TO READ 2nd Edition
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Learn How to Teach Reading to a Child, Teen or Adult
About the Author
Lorraine Peoples, AuthorAfter retirement from 33 years of classroom teaching and administrating, Lorraine Peoples' wrote You Can Teach Someone to Read. It was soon awarded the best how-to-book in its category. She has since given over 150 workshops, seminars and book signings to bookstores (mostly Barnes & Noble), libraries, and literacy groups throughout the country. Through this website, she has advised hundreds of individuals internationally with their concerns about teaching reading. At the Phoenix Lodestar Resource Center, she worked with staff to develop a viable program for the homeless adults. In addition she has given workshops and classes, training youth and adults how to teach reading. She is also a volunteer tutor in a third grade ELL classroom and currently serves on the NEA (National Education Association) MB Member Advisory Panel. Lorraine Peoples, has degrees in elementary education, and elementary curriculum and instruction and a certification in elementary administration, all from Drake University. During her thirty-three years of teaching elementary age children reading and other subjects, she also gave fifty-two workshops to educators on subjects including reading, science, team teaching and/or individualizing. In addition she trained twelve student teachers and mentored eight first year teachers. For sixteen years, the author taught first grade through fifth in Des Moines and Marshalltown, Iowa, public schools and was active on various curriculum committees. The next seventeen years she taught in private schools in Phoenix and Paradise Valley, Arizona. While at Phoenix Country Day School she was Acting Dean of Lower School for a semester and active on curriculum and evaluation committees. At Tesseract School, she was also Elementary Program Director for several years. Lorraine founded libraries in Cement, Oklahoma and Liscomb, Iowa, and trained corps of women in service clubs to operate them. A member of National Education Association and Small Publishers of North America, she is also listed in various "Who's Who" Editions from 1989 to the present, and is a lifetime honored member of Cambridge Who's Who. Lorraine and her husband, Graydon, live in Chandler, Arizona.
The Author's Personal Commitment
My personal mission is to help you teach reading to a child, teen or adult. I have seen the tehniques described in my book work for any age. I used it in my classroom and continue to use it for tutoring. I just want to make sure that any reader who is in a position to help someone else with their reading skills has an opportunity use this book. I am giving you my personal guarantee. Buy my book. Try it out. If you are not completely satisfied with the results, I will buy it back from you. |
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