Seasoned Educator and English Language Learners Coordinator, with an MS TESOL from Fordham University

As both a  classroom teacher and Department Coordinator for all of a charter school's English Language Learners' with students of all learning backgrounds, including English language learners, students with learning differences, I was forever and fruitlessly looking for learning materials and children's books to teach all the vast levels and needs in my classroom. 

I began writing children's books for my classrooms, and am now writing and illustrating to help teachers and parents have access to literacy advancing and engaging children's books based on the Science of Reading.

The first three years of brain development is the most intense period of growth: especially in acquiring language skills.

• First, our children's brains must learn to identify individual sounds.

• Next, their Brains begin to to blend sounds, syllables, and morphemes to make words, which is called phonological Processing.

• Building words, becomes a growing lexicon vocabulary.

The first Four years of school (K-3) is typically the time when children learn to read. 

• An expanding lexicon is necessary for reading and understanding sentences and paragraphs, and then whole stories.

After third grade, children read to learn.

• Fluency and "natural speaking" speed are developed towards mastery.