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Creating Books With Children

Bendt, Valerie

Children's Books

Family Learning Center/Common

Unit Study Idea Book

Contains patterns and directions for 24 easy-to-make animal, felt puppets. Includes animals on the farm, animals in the woods, and animals in the jungle. You will also find a poem, a list of library books, and a factual description featuring each animal. A full-color photograph of each puppet is displayed on the inside of the front and back book cover. Complete diagrams make this book simple to use.

Successful Puppet Making

Common Sense Press

* Phonics based * 108 easy lessons * 3 lessons per week * Less than 30 minutes a day * Fully scripted * Christian content * Original stories and poems * Introduction to punctuation and capitalization * Hands-on activities * Writing and drawing activities * Homeschool family tested * 512 pages

Reading Made Easy

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Greenleaf Press

By Valerie Bendt. Teaching a child means more than just teaching the mechanics of reading. With this book, Valerie shows parents how to instill a love of reading in their children. There's a wealth of information here!

For the Love of Reading:

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Common Sense Press (Melrose, FL)

“Valerie Bendt’s latest book, Reading Made Easy is just that – an easy to follow reading manual that requires no advanced preparation on the part of the parent. She has created her own symbols to designate the varying phonetic sounds, such as for the short and long vowels and silent letters. She also includes original stories and poems to use as readers as the child progresses through the manual. In an effort to make learning to read more fun and interesting for the child, some of the lessons incorporate simple games, such as Sight Word Bingo and Sight Word Worms, for which patterns are provided. Sight words are introduced at an earlier level than in other reading programs, allowing the child to read more interesting passages. Introduction to the use of capital letters, periods, commas, questions marks, quotation marks, and exclamation marks are also slipped into the material with ease. Without placing a heavy emphasis on grammar, the child is introduced to more advanced concepts in a very natural and easy fashion. Valerie has a true love of reading and realizes the pleasure books can offer. She enthusiastically shares this passion with others. Valerie motivates the child to see the true joy of reading by quickly gaining an understanding of the written word. To further assist the child’s comprehension, the child is shown a simple drawing that relates to the story. She encourages the child to draw his own pictures and to write sentences about his picture. Gradually, she encourages the child to write his own stories (by dictating them to his parent) and to practice his reading using these stories. Reading Made Easy concludes with Mrs. Bendt’s, twelve-chapter short story, “Gideon’s Gift.” This heartfelt story emphasizes the joy of reading and writing while stressing the significance of giving God the glory in all situations and finding our God given gifts. Each chapter’s suspenseful conclusion urges the child on to the next lesson. This beautifully written account exposes the child to vocabulary not normally used in today’s books for children.” Cathy Pierce – Children’s Librarian

Reading Made Easy : A Guide to Teach Your Child to Read

Bendt Family Ministries

“Valerie Bendt’s latest book, Reading Made Easy is just that – an easy to follow reading manual that requires no advanced preparation on the part of the parent. She has created her own symbols to designate the varying phonetic sounds, such as for the short and long vowels and silent letters. She also includes original stories and poems to use as readers as the child progresses through the manual. 
In an effort to make learning to read more fun and interesting for the child, some of the lessons incorporate simple games, such as Sight Word Bingo and Sight Word Worms, for which patterns are provided. Sight words are introduced at an earlier level than in other reading programs, allowing the child to read more interesting passages. Introduction to the use of capital letters, periods, commas, questions marks, quotation marks, and exclamation marks are also slipped into the material with ease. Without placing a heavy emphasis on grammar, the child is introduced to more advanced concepts in a very natural and easy fashion. 
Valerie has a true love of reading and realizes the pleasure books can offer. She enthusiastically shares this passion with others. Valerie motivates the child to see the true joy of reading by quickly gaining an understanding of the written word. To further assist the child’s comprehension, the child is shown a simple drawing that relates to the story. She encourages the child to draw his own pictures and to write sentences about his picture. Gradually, she encourages the child to write his own stories (by dictating them to his parent) and to practice his reading using these stories. 
Reading Made Easy concludes with Mrs. Bendt’s, twelve-chapter short story, “Gideon’s Gift.” This heartfelt story emphasizes the joy of reading and writing while stressing the significance of giving God the glory in all situations and finding our God given gifts. Each chapter’s suspenseful conclusion urges the child on to the next lesson. This beautifully written account exposes the child to vocabulary not normally used in today’s books for children.” 
Cathy Pierce – Children’s Librarian

Reading Made Easy: A Guide to Teach Your Child to Read

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

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