This May Be Difficult to Read - (Education & Parenting Matters) by Claire N Rubman (Paperback)

About the Book

This May Be Difficult to Read, but you can:

• Participate in 15 perspective-changing research studies
• Utilize a 4-stage reading program
• Discuss 10 book club questions
• Be a catalyst for change

Book Synopsis

There's no baby Einsteins in cribs anymore, our babies can't read, and no one is still hooked on phonics - so what's left? This may be difficult to read, but we haven't been selling reading skills very well... Our society has put a premium on one single aspect of the reading process - letters & sounds (or phonics). This has given the impression that 5, 4 or even 3-year-olds can become proficient readers but there is a myriad of psychological and neurological evidence that emphatically refutes this idea.

It may be difficult to read that despite all your hard work, you have only scraped the surface of the learning and reading process with your child or, worse yet, that you may inadvertently have set your child up to fail... Although it may appear that even very young children can "read" words out loud (or decode), those same children often experience great difficulty extracting meaning from the printed word as they move through middle school, high school or college. Their reading skills may superficially sustain them initially, but the sad reality remains that 1 in 5 college students has to take a remedial reading class in their freshman year.

This May Be Difficult to Read creates the opportunity for you to go back in time to think as a child thinks and read as a child reads. Engage in the fun, interactive examples, read the anecdotal evidence and participate in the research studies to experience reading as your child does. Armed with this new perspective, together, let's take reading into the 21st century and reinvent the reading process...

Learn about brain development and the 5 comprehension skills that 5, 4 and even 3-year-olds should be focusing on instead of fixating on letters, sounds and rote memorization.

Engage in 15 research studies within the book so that you can experience what your child may encounter as an early reader. This will shed some light on the many reading failures that occur throughout our educational system and help your child to avoid them.

Follow the fun, 4-stage reading program to open up a world of sustainable literacy for your child that will focus on extracting meaning from the printed word.

Let's use our understanding of the human brain to maximize our children's learning potential while simultaneously optimizing our precious time with our children as we create a "need to read" in their daily life. Transform your home into a developmentally appropriate ecosystem and make reading part of your daily routine with fun, easy and engaging child-centered interactions.

In our harried lives, somewhere between work, dinnertime, bath-time, laundry and house cleaning, we parents deserve to have more fun with our children!

As parents, we have high hopes for our children. And rightly so, but children don't beep like a microwave when they are ready to learn! They also don't signal the amount that they have learned like your car's gas gauge measures your gas level! So why not apply some sound psychological research to bolster their success and put your mind at ease.

Since reading is the linchpin of all future learning, it's time to disrupt an educational paradigm that hasn't shifted in 50 years. It's time to reinvent reading!

Remember, their brains are different from our brains. They don't think, speak, or learn like we do. Let's learn from their perspective so we can appreciate why "this may be difficult to read" ...

Review Quotes

"This May Be Difficult to Read" addresses the underlying problem of poorly acquired reading comprehension skills in children of all ages. "This May Be difficult" offers parents and teachers a new perspective on reading comprehension that flags massive shortcomings that reveal themselves as a child enters middle school, high school or college.

As a college professor, I have first-hand experience of this reading comprehension failure causing 1 out of every 5 college freshmen to take a remedial reading class.

This May Be Difficult is a fun, interactive delve into the mind of a child that is based on 50 years of cognitive, developmental research.

In the 6 brief years between birth and first grade, learn how to maximize your children's time and neural development to give them a lifelong love for reading and reading comprehension.

Remember, the ABC's are just tip of the reading process...

"This May be Difficult" explores the reading process through the eyes of a child. It pinpoints why so many children fail to read successfully from PreK through college.

This May be Difficult is aimed at parents and teachers of pre-kindergarten children. It lays out a path for successful reading comprehension in 4 fun and engaging levels.

This May Be Difficult combines research and anecdotal evidence in a fun, interactive and practical format.

As a college professor, I have seen many of my students fail because their reading comprehension skills are subpar. This May be Difficult addresses those inadequacies and offers a fun, engaging path to literacy for all children.

People don't necessarily perceive that there is a problem with reading comprehension until it's too late.

We are stuck with an old-fashioned paradigm where we equate knowing our ABCs with reading competence. We have ignored the research for too long.

As a nation, we often mistakenly believe that earlier is better with regard to education.

Together, let's disrupt the field of education and introduce 60 years of research into every early childhood home and classroom. Together, we can make reading comprehension fun and exciting for all children....