If you‘d like your children to learn to read and write effortlessly, to be one of the best readers in their class and to have more time to play sports, without spending hours doing homework, then this is the course for you.

Parents!! Are you sick and tired of watching your child struggle with reading and writing?  

Read what some teachers and parents have to say about the course

My daughter was having serious problems at school. The school wanted her checked for dyslexia or ADHD or anything they could think of but I wouldn't have it. I knew she had problems but I didn't want the school dictating to me. So I went on a hunt for something to help my daughter.  I brought a few books but they didn't do any good. Then I tried this course and things started to happen. My child liked the feel of the letters and I think that made the difference. Now she is on her way and is about to start reading by herself, but it takes time.                                                                                                            Mrs. C. Thompson

I got hold of this course and things started to happen. Kathy loved the sandpaper letters. After tracing the letters they seemed to stick in her mind. So it didn't take long, about a term,  before she was near the top of her class. But we put a lot of time in, and now I'm glad we did.                                                                                                                                 Kathy's Mum

I've been teaching kindergarten kids in China for 4 years and I needed something to help the kids learn to write and read. I tried a number of products and books but nothing seemed to work. Then I found this book and it has been quite amazing. Making the sandpaper letters was not easy, but after that the kids just loved tracing the letters. I must admit it helped them to start reading and writing. They can now make up words after I say the word. And I don't even work in a Montessori kindergarten.                                                                                                                            mcwillians_bob@yahoo.com

Hi, I’m Peter Legrove and I was a parent with a BIG problem.

My eight-year-old daughter, Lisa was having a terrible time at school. 

She was bottom of her class in reading and writing. And I couldn’t understand why. After watching my kid struggle I have a fair idea what it is like to be at the bottom of the class, and it is not good. Your classmates as well as your friends pick on you. 

And that is not all. 

Some teachers blame the kids at the bottom for all the class problems.

Kids at the bottom just seem to keep getting hammered further down. Her teachers were complaining and I was stuck trying to figure out what to do. Like most kids she had problems with her homework. She just didn’t like doing it. So I limited her TV and computer game time to only one hour a night. That didn’t do any good. It didn’t make any difference.

 She just didn’t get the reading and writing bit. 

I would read to her every night, following the words with my finger like the experts say, but nothing. I brought a little blackboard she could write on but still nothing. There was not an inch of noticeable improvement. 

I got a student teacher in, part time as a tutor because they were cheaper. Qualified Tutors are usually very expensive. But after a month, do you know what she said. “We were wasting each other’s time,” and quit. She just couldn’t get through to my kid. 

The student was good. 

She knew her stuff. She would come in with a sentence printed out on a piece of paper. First they would read the sentence together, then she would cut the sentence up into words. 

Now, my kid had to put the sentence back together, with all the words in the correct order. After that the tutor would pick a word and cut the word up into syllables, so my kid could put the word back together. Then finally the tutor cut the word into letters, so Lisa could spell the word. My kid then had to try and put the word back together. 

During the process my kid was learning sentences and words and syllables. It seemed like a good system and I liked it, but my kid was just getting nowhere. I thought about getting her tested for dyslexia or something like that. But once kids get a label it follows them around for the rest of their lives. And that is not good. So I put that off until nothing else worked.

After the tutor walked away I thought about getting another one. 

But I didn’t think that route was working. Next I hit the internet. I Googled it, Yahooed it and Amazoned it. And there was a multitude of stuff to wade through. I found a few really good programs, but nothing jumped out at me. 

There were a number of computer based learning models, but I didn’t really want the kid on the computer. Getting kids off the computer is more of a problem that getting them on one, so I gave those ones a miss. I was looking for something I could help her with, something we could do together. 

The name Montessori kept popping up. 

There were Montessori books, Montessori schools and Montessori teacher training programs. But I couldn’t find any ‘How to do it’ sort of thing. I’d heard of Montessori schools and I knew absolutely nothing about them. There were references to sandpaper letters and phonics, but nothing in depth. Only little introductions here and there. 

Then I thought I had struck ‘gold.’ 

I found the original book “The Montessori Method” translated from Italian by Anne E George in 1912. The book turned out to be more of a ‘bronze’ than ‘gold’ as it was very difficult to understand. 

The English language back at the turn of the 20^th century was very different from today. Also being translated made it all the more difficult to get the guts of what was going on. But I waded through it and got the general picture. 

And it was fascinating. I couldn’t understand why this system had not been adapted into the modern school system of today. It was a bit more complicated than just sandpaper letters and phonics. But the old book in the public domain described how to do it. 

And what the book said was sometimes slightly and sometimes completely different from what I had been reading on the internet. Anyway I managed to decipher the basic concept of what the book was trying to say. 

The next thing I did was to try and find sandpaper letters.

So I Googled it and got the big shock. The first sandpaper letters I came across were $85 US. And I thought “Wow no wonder this system isn’t in our schools.” Maybe they were paying a lot for their Pay Per Clicks. So I kept looking and it got worse. The next one I found was 81 British pounds, and I thought “Man, I’m lucky I don’t live in England” 

I had to get better and it did. The sandpaper letters now cost 62 British pounds. I must admit these high priced ones were for school use and were made out of wood. Next I had a look on ebay and there they were getting cheaper at US $42 plus shipping. 

The next ones were made out of cardboard and were very reasonable priced at US $19.95 at

 http://www.didax.com/shop/productdetails.cfm/ItemNo/1-520.cfm

but they were not cursive and that is what I wanted. They were block letters and I think cursive writing is better than block, even though it seems cursive is going the way of the dinosaur. 

But I like cursive. 

Now I thought, “What about templates.”  I could make my own sandpaper cursive letter. So it was back to Google and this time I was lucky. They had free templates, but the templates were quite small. I suppose I could have played around on the computer and made them bigger. 

Then I thought why not make my own. 

I could write cursive and my writing is pretty good. At least it was not like a doctor’s prescription. So I did and they looked really good. 

I followed The Montessori Method and did the consonants in red and the vowels in blue. I was very impressed. They weren’t exactly a work of art, but they looked good. 

Making the sandpaper letters was the easy part. 

Now I had to get the kid away from the TV long enough to start teaching her to write and read. The kid liked tracing the sandpaper letters. We had a few teething problems getting her to say the phonic sound of the letters. But after about a week or so she got the hang of it. Then it was onto me saying the word and she had to make up the word from the sounds. 

She learnt very fast because the system somehow manages to implant the letters and sounds on your brain. Anyway to cut a long story short she went from a ‘D’ student at the bottom of her class to a ‘B’ student, somewhere near the top in less than a month. 

I was utterly impressed with this Montessori writing and reading system. A system that has survived the test of time, and is still helping children to learn to read and write today. 

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Table of Contents

The Life of Peter Legrove                        

The Life of Maria Montessori                 

Forward                                           

My Story                                        

What This Book Is All About                      

How To Use This Book                            

Things You Will Need    

Part 2 - Lesson Plans

Phonic Lists  

Most Common Words in English  

Most Common Nouns                                               

Phonic Chart                                                              

Phonic 

Lists                                                                                                                              

Alphabet Letters

Phonics are a lot easier than most people think.

There are a whole bunch of lesson plans that guide you through the teaching process, making it easy for you. You go from the first lessons, that get you set up with the four-step process to more advanced lessons where you control the content.

After you have mastered the four-step process you can make up lessons as you go.

Even if you have spent too much time on a keyboard and have forgotten how to write. Don’t worry. There are little arrows on the template letters showing you which way to write the letter.  

Who shouldn’t get this course for their children?

Now, our course is not for the parent who wants everything set up for them, so they can sit back and relax. No! If this is you, this is definitely not the course for you. With this course you have to get involved, learn a bit about how to teach.

And you have to get your hands dirty, so as to speak. You have to make things.

Simple things like sandpaper alphabet letters and ordinary letters.

We supply the templates and you have to do the rest. Like trace the letters, glue the letter onto the back of a sheet of sandpaper then cut out the letter. Anyway if your kids are old enough, let them make the letters. Just have a look at Lesson 2 there are complete instructions on how to make sandpaper letters.

No, this course is not for the parent who does not want to get involved in their children’s education. You have to learn phonics. But we teach you how to say the letters. It is all laid out for you in Lesson 3.

Is writing going the way of the dinosaur?

It seems, with the invasion of the computer and the keyboard, the humble pencil is now taking a back seat to modern technology. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Schools nowadays, are embracing new technology And why shouldn’t they. It makes life easier. But we still need to be able to write. A shopping list, a short love letter in a Valentines Day card, or just writing in your daily diary. Things you just can’t do on a laptop.

Latest news from the Washington Post.

See what the Washington Post has to say about the future of handwriting in their article “The Writing Is On The Wall.”

“When handwritten essays were introduced on the SAT exams for the class of 2006, just 15 percent of the almost 1.5 million students wrote their answers in cursive. The rest? They printed. Block letters.”

But the part we are interested in is:

A group of first-graders who could write only 10 to 12 letters per minute.

The kids were given 15 minutes of handwriting instruction three times a week. After nine weeks, they had doubled their writing speed and their expressed thoughts were more complex.

Students who remain printers, rather than writing in cursive, need more time to take notes or write essays for the SAT.

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/10/AR2006101001475.html

There it is, the children who write in cursive wrote much faster and had better thought processes.

If you want your child to write faster and more beautifully, then this course is for you. And especially when it comes to the SAT exams, your children need all the help they can get.

If they can write faster and more clearly, then that could be the deciding factor.

With the Montessori way of teaching reading, the children learn to write as a bonus. It is something that just happens, because of the way the reading program is set up.

In the course we show your children how to write without actually writing.  

Now is the time to invest in your children’s future.  

So why can’t you, the parent, become a part-time teacher. This way you’ll save some money and take control of your child’s education.

For only $18.97 you could be teaching your children and watching them climb up the education ladder.  As they progress at school their love of learning will increase. Making you proud that you took the first step by buying this course therefore starting your children on the road to school success. 

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Yes. I want to help my children get into the top 10 in their class.

Yes. I want to take control of my children’s education.

Yes. I want my children to be able to read better.

Yes. I want to make up sandpaper letters, because this will definitely help my children learn to write and read.

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If your child is spending too much time playing mindless computer games, try them out on this game. They have to read the game to find out what is happening. 

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Isn’t that fair. You have eight weeks to try it out and if your children’s reading and writing has not improved, I will give you back the amount you paid.  

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"The Difference Between Your Children’s Success And Failure At School Depends On One Thing: Your Children’s ability to read and write.”

You will now receive just under a 100 pages of chapters, lesson plans and templates. These will help your children be among the top ten students in their class.

You will receive 14 lesson plans that will guide you as you teach your children. Then you will notice  your children's self esteem growing, as they head towards the top of the class.

Teaching your children will bring your family closer together as you spend more time with your children.

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Teacher Peter Legrove

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