How To Teach Your Dyslexic Child To Read: A Proven Method for Parents and Teachers [Paperback]

Bernice H. Baumer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2000

A highly organized guide for helping dyslexic children to read is broken down into three parts that discuss learning disabilities, alternative education methods, and teaching tools that are based on a phonics method.

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Thanks to this easy-to-use instructional book, both parents and teachers can learn how to structure lessons in order to connect with a dyslexic child. How To Teach Your Dyslexic Child To Read uses accessible terms along with charts, graphics, and lesson plans. It is broken down into three functional sections: a discussion of learning disabilities; an explanation of how to teach the dyslexic to read, step by step from kindergarten through the first, second and third grades (giving detailed instructions for teaching phonics, spelling, and syllabication); and a section devoted to pictures, charts, and word lists that are an integral part of tutoring the child. How To Teach Your Dyslexic Child To Read shows the tutor how to discover the child's learning pace, lengthen a youngster's short attention span, determine the number of vocabulary words to be learned at one time, the number of pages to be assigned to daily oral reading, the number of words a child can learn to spell in a week, and much more! With How To Teach Your Dyslexic Child To Read , parents, teachers, and tutors can make a world of difference in a child's life. They can make an illiterate child read cheerfully, eagerly, and with joy! -- Midwest Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Citadel; 1st Edition edition (December 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0806519819
• ISBN-13: 978-0806519814
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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71 of 75 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The First Book on Dyslexia to be read by Parents, July 7, 1998

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This review is from: How to Teach Your Dyslexic Child to Read: A Proven Method for Parents and Teachers (Hardcover)

As a parent of a dyslexic child, I've read most of the recommended books on the subject. Of all of them, this is the first one I would recommend to parents who have realized that their child is dyslexic.

The author presents most of the classical techniques in dealing with the dyslexic learning style in an exceptionally clear, concise, and very human style. She uses as a vehicle to do this her own experience in teaching dyslexic children and young adults. After using these techniques with my own daughter, I can say that many are quite helpful.

In the course of describing the learning-to-read process with dyslexic kids, the author also brings some practical thinking to the "phonics vs. whole-word" reading debate. She explains the necessity of phonics for word-attack skills in non-intuitive readers as well as the ultimate necessity of whole-word reading in order to establish fluency and comprehension.

At the end of the book she provides most-used word-lists, phonics charts, writing charts, and pictures. She tells you how to use these materials in applying the techniques previously described.

This book is not revolutionary nor does it promise a panacea for all the issues surrounding the dyslexic learning style. But, I recommend that you make it your first of several on this complex subject.

45 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars NOT for dyslexic children, March 31, 2004

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A. B. Morrison "morrisab" (Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How To Teach Your Dyslexic Child To Read: A Proven Method for Parents and Teachers (Paperback)

I think this book was originally called "How to Teach Your Child to Read" (or, probably, "How I, Bernice Baumer the Great, Taught Your Poor Neglected Child to Read"). The "information" consists of a number of chapters that read like testimonials to her "method." The method, once revealed, has little or nothing to do with Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, or any other MSL technique. The method could in fact be very damaging to children who actually do have dyslexia. The author's attitude could be very damaging to parental confidence, since the author doesn't seem to recognise that dyslexia is any different from a "slow" reader, and posits that dyslexia can be cured in a few "simple" steps. As any parent of a dyslexic child knows, dyslexia is a lifelong disability that can be corrected and dealt with to some extent, but that will never be "cured" or go away entirely.

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30 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best, Most Useful Book Purchased for tutoring a Dyslexic!!, April 29, 2002

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Gail Starkweather "Gail" (San Antonio, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How To Teach Your Dyslexic Child To Read: A Proven Method for Parents and Teachers (Paperback)

I am tutoring a 7th grader, apparently dyslexic, who has never been taught how to read or given any individual help. At the beginning I was clueless how to improve his reading skills, and was puzzled by the many mistakes he made in decoding. After receiving this book in the mail, I began to understand his problems better, and better yet - how to remedy them! He has since passed his required state reading test (3rd grade level) and is reading in most cases at a 4th grade level, a jump of 4 grades since November. Many thanks to the author, and Amazon for giving me the opportunity to buy it used from the Marketplace, which is the only way I could afford it.