We have a very special guest this week. Stephanie Bunt has been working with children with special-needs for over 20 years and has done extensive research creating teaching strategies and curricula for children.
She created a series of picture books where each book is written mainly in one vowel sound to ensure success. This has never been done before where the majority of each book is only written in one vowel sound and this has enabled the steps for reading to be much smaller and therefore successful for struggling readers. Once a child masters one book, they have mastered that vowel sound and can move onto the next, this also builds their confidence because from their perspective they just read an entire book, something they were not able to do when there were many different vowels sounds all mixed together in their previous attempts at reading other books.
These books not only help children to read in general, but they also help children learning english as a second-language, children with special-needs and can even help children that can already read but need practice with speech as practicing the same vowels over and over again can be very beneficial. I addition, each book has its own message. For example, Ren the Hen is about a mother hen that does everything she can to protect her nest and her children and realizes that she is not perfect, however it doesn’t take perfection to be the best parent.
She has her undergraduate and graduate school degree at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Psychology with a minor in Applied Developmental Psychology and her graduate school is one of the best educational programs in the country at UCLA in the Department of Education and Information Studies where she holds a PhD. She also work as an adjunct professor at Whittier College.
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https://www.amazon.com/stores/Stephanie-Marie-Bunt/author/B07BM254P6?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
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