A Root Cause To Why Our "Children" Cannot Read

About the Book

This book is written to enhance the possibilities of uncovering new ways to teach reading.  This book, is addressing how teachers, college professors, community leaders, community business owners, officials and parent’s should encourage and challenge their local school and local board of education to utilize the absolute best methods available to teach our children how to read.

In the United States alone our children are completing Kindergarten, 1st, 2^nd Grade and some even 3^rd Grade, and these children are not able to read.  Parents are expected to present inquiries to their child’s teachers, school officials, and educational experts to design a learning method to improve our current system of teaching reading.  The message, research and the structure of this book was written to encourage all parents, educators and school officials to think about “What If” there was  a better and more effective way to teach a child how to read?  Would you take on that challenge of giving a child the “Gift” of learning how to read? No matter the cost!

Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes?  Are you looking for a better way to establish comprehensive literacy of instruction in your school, classroom or home so all students receive support in becoming a competent and confident reader?  Hopefully, some readers will have more use for the practical strategies and/or perhaps some educators will want to have this book for their classroom and personal use.

About the Author

Dr. Donald G. Jasmin was born on March 27, 1958 in the Caribbean, and grew up in Nyack and Spring Valley, two of many suburban towns in Rockland County, in northern New York, which lies between Connecticut and New Jersey.

Dr. Donald Jasmin has always been a practical person who admired to express himself in writing and storytelling.  As a child, he would love to listen to his Elementary and Middle School, Reading and Language Arts Teachers’ read aloud to the class and/or of student’s assignment to the class.  Growing up in a household of eleven siblings, including his parents, where work and family activities are mainly centered in the house.  It was inconceivable that he thought, he might grow up to be an author.

Dr. Jasmin left Spring Valley, New York and joined the United States Navy, where he attended Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois and majored in Business Administration and Science.  After, ten years in the Navy, he was honorably discharged and attended Mercy College in New York and majored in Elementary Education. While teaching in Bronx, New York, he co-owned and operated a private Elementary and Middle school, “Faith Hope Charity Christian Academy,” Mount Vernon, New York.  Dr. Jasmin attended Hofstra University, Long Island, New York then transferred to Argosy University, Sarasota, Florida and majored in Organizational Leadership in Behavioral Science and Education.

Dr. Jasmin is currently residing in Tampa, Florida, where he is an Associate Academic Dean at Concorde Career Institute in Hillsborough County.  He is also an Adjunct professor for local Tampa colleges and universities, and has published articles for educational journals for parents and college students.