Learning to Read is a Ball: Promote Your Child's Language Development & Early Literacy Skills (Early Reader Books Level 1)

Do you want to prepare your child to be a lifelong, successful, and passionate reader? 

Then jump start your child's language development and pre reading skills while having a ball!
 
This is not just another book for beginning readers. Kimberly Scanlon, licensed speech therapist and top selling author of My Toddler Talks has created an innovative resource full of simple-to-understand reading strategies to assist in building your child's language and early literacy skills. Learning to Read is a Ball is a unique and versatile book that can be used with any early readers, including: toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners.  It is a must-have for anyone interested in developing reading skills and emergent literacy in young children. 
Your child will almost certainly learn to read faster if you apply these techniques. 

Learning to Read is a Ball combines a rhyming 28-page picture book about balls with a 17 Page Parent Guide that includes:

1. Specific techniques to develop oral language using different reading styles


2. Strategies to use synonyms and antonyms to build vocabulary


3. Various approaches to encourage storytelling


4. Dynamic tips to play with rhymes and alliteration to build the understanding that words are made up of different sounds


5. Thoughtful tactics to highlight letters and words to stimulate print awareness

Develop these foundational skills in your child, and you'll take pride knowing you helped prepare your little one for formal instruction going into preschool or kindergarten.
 
Learning to Read is a Ball is the perfect resource for:

• Parents, Grandparents & Caregivers


• Speech Therapists


• Speech Therapy Grad Students


• Early Intervention Specialists


• Early Childhood Educators


• Occupational & Physical Therapists

 
Please visit Scanlon Speech Therapy's website and sign up for Kimberly's newsletter to access free worksheets, complimentary bonus content and additional tips on how to get the most from Learning to Read is a Ball -search the internet for Scanlon Speech Therapy! 

"This illustrated, rhyming book for beginning readers helps preschoolers develop language skills... parents of children with language delays or anyone interested in language development will find this guide thorough and useful. An amusing, educational book for kids and a helpful resource for parents."
-Kirkus Reviews

"We have purchased a ton of different "learning to read" books for our son - BOB books, Capstone, etc. This is the first one that actually provides some really good and practical guidance for parents. What's even better is the actual story itself. My son loves the workbook style that he can not only now read the material, but interact with it too. If your child is around 4 or 5 and is showing an interest in reading, this is a great book to work on it together."
-parent of child, age 4


"Learning to Read is a Ball can be used with language impaired toddlers to introduce them to functional vocabulary words, as well as with emergent readers to introduce them to repetitive thematic text. I was impressed with how versatile this book can be. It can also be used to develop their critical thinking skills, enhance their lexicon by discussing synonyms and antonyms, as well as boost their narrative (storytelling) abilities. I highly recommend this book."
-Tatyana Elleseff MA CCC-SLP, Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care, Director Smart Speech Therapy LLC