The Blount Guide to Reading, Spelling and Pronouncing English

About the Book

The Blount Guide A logical phonetic manual for: 1. - Parents and teachers of reading to small children. 2. - Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly with instructions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. 3. - Spelling teachers. 4. -.Home schoolers 5. - Teachers of children with learning disabilities. 6. - Writers of books for children who need to know which words are appropriate for which level reading 7. - Computer programmers who wish to program their computers to teach reading and spelling.

About the Author

Beverley Blount lives in Mexico City and El Paso, Texas. She is currently completing 28 years of training Montessori teachers in her schools. Blount had an eight -page article published in the award-winning centennial issue of the MONTESSORI LIFE journal and two lead articles in The KAPPAN, the ADK International Teacher's Organization's biannual journal. In 2008, the Mexican National Circle of Reporters awarded her their Golden Sun Statuette for special educational merit. This book is the result of her 46 years in the Montessori system of Education and her lifetime love of reading. She feels that the day one learns to read is possibly the most important day in one's life and that destroying this moment by using crude techniques and not properly preparing the beginning reader nor understanding when they are ready should be considered a crime. Her book El Dorado won first place in the 2013 El Paso Publisher's contest In the 2014 Writer's League annual contest her story Haciendado won first place and was published in their annual book Border Tapestry. In the 2015 Writer's League contest three of her entries won two first places and one second place and will also be published in their journal..