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Learn about essential literacy skills and resources that help early and struggling readers. Pick up activity-based Earth Day books and packets of early literacy starter kits for children learning to read. For children that know their consonant sounds and a few short vowel sounds, walk through our decodable StoryWalk of A Pig and His Wig and read independently!

April 21st 5:30-6:30 Kinderhook Memorial Library 18 Hudson Street, Kinderhook, NY Learn more about how we learn to read and ways to use different resources to promote earlyliteracy skills and help struggling readers. Teach My Kid to Read presenter Marion Waldmanwill discuss our Library’s new collection of decodable books and literacy resources. We willdemonstrate how parents, teachers, tutors, and volunteers can use the different resources tosupport and supplement reading programs. We will also discuss options and approaches toreading intervention for children struggling to read.

Join Us! Teach My Kid to Read is proud to host the first Dr. Richard E. Schutz Walk for Community Literacy Solutions! Richard E. Schutz, “Dick,” as he was known to family and friends, dedicated his life to helping all children learn to read. Dick was a pioneer of decodable books and created the reading series Beginning Reading Instruction/Advanced Reading Instruction (BRI/ARI), known to many as “I See Sam.” Millions of children have learned to read using Dick’s meticulously developed reading series.  BRI/ARI is the most evidence-based, decodable book program demonstrating extraordinary success teaching children to read using a simple, say the sound, and read the word approach to early literacy. At Teach My Kid to Read, our connection with Dr. Richard E. Schutz began when we started looking for the most evidence-based and parent-friendly approach to help young children learn to read. Faith Borkowsky told me about her success tutoring children and recommending the series to parents so children could practice their newly learned skills. While BRI/ARI is a book series, the architecture of the approach teaches children how to read. When I learned more about the books, I realized their impact if more children received access to the books through the libraries and Teach My Kid to Read provides guidance and support. Sadly, Dick passed away amid our… | Read More »Dr. Richard E. Schutz Walk for Community Literacy Solutions

Learn more about Ed and Mel’s Decodable Book Adventures as we talk with Heather Doolittle, the author and creator of this engaging trilogy.

Listen to an interview with a parent of a child that went from a struggling/striving reader to a child reading above grade average. What happened? Systematic, explicit reading instruction. It works. Here are the stories!