Johnny STILL Can't Read---But You Can Teach Him at Home

It might be hard for today's young parents to understand just how revolutionary a concept teaching your children to read used to be. For many years, the schools had a monopoly on this; the common wisdom was that you didn't teach your child to read because you might do it wrong. You waited for the child to go to school so he'd learn "the right way" to learn to read.

Ah, the "good" old days. Nowadays, parents heave a sigh of relief when their offspring graduate from public high school with a reading level above grade five.

Anyway, this book lays out an argument for why parents should teach their children to read and how to do it. It includes a spelling and reading list of words to get you started, plus lots of specific tips for teaching phonics. That's right, I forgot to mention this book is for teaching your child to read using phonics. The only place you'll see the phrase "sight words" here is the list of words that cannot be sounded out phonetically, like "ought."

This book is paperback, has 75 pages, was printed in 1979 and is in very good condition. Sorry...this one's sold.