How Lil’ Eddie Learns to Read

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Reading is the key to all learning. If a child learns to read, he or she can do anything and go anywhere. Do you really believe that? In my search for current literacy rates for the USA, I found that there are varying reports. I saw 99%, 97% and one article even suggested that 14% of adults could be classified as illiterate because of their reading ability and comprehension levels. Doesn’t that disturb you? We are a developed nation, our literacy rate should be one of the highest in the world!

As parents, we need to be involved in the education of our children. The author of How Lil’ Eddie Learns to Read, Rima H. Corral, has done a terrific job in writing a book full of suggestions and ideas for how we can be involved in the early education of our children. She has provided easy and concise ways for us to interact and be a fun teacher/parent. You do realize that you are a teacher as well as a parent, right? It doesn’t matter where your child goes to school or where they will go to school, you are your child’s first teacher.

How Lil’ Eddie Learns to Read is a fun story of how a little boy turned three and from that point on his mother and family started to prepare him for school. I think every parent should have this book, but especially those who do not know where to start in helping prepare a child for school. It is an excellent resource. I suggest parents read it first before they read it to their children so they can implement some of Mrs. Corral’s ideas as they read and again throughout the day after reading time is done.

We really enjoyed How Lil’ Eddie Learns to Read.

This book is available in hardcover for $18.95 at major bookstores.