Step by step detailed directions to provide anyone the necessary tools to easily teach someone -- any age -- to learn to read. The author, a former elementary educator shows that teaching -- and learning -- reading can be fun and satisfying. Peoples shows the reader how to find and teach any missing skills. Ideal for parents, volunteers in literacy programs, teachers and friends. The book's 6 units and 9 appendices include easy to follow lesson plans, tips on how to teach the way students learn best, series of unique yarns to make phonics memorable, appendices of sounds, rules and words.