BRI Books

One of the most rewarding activities that a parent, grandparent or carer can share with children is teaching them to read. Beginning Reading Instruction (BRI) makes this process remarkably straightforward. Its eighty-eight decodable little tales make the ‘how-to’ of reading crystal clear while engaging each child in the adventures of mischievous animal characters. The instructor need only introduce each new sound, remind the pupil to ‘Say the sounds and read the word’ and instantly correct any errors; the main problem is avoiding the temptation to over-help. It takes less than an hour to absorb Getting Started with BRI’s instructions; armed with this information, and the stories themselves, the exciting journey towards fluent reading can begin.

We now know that parents can raise a child’s level of intelligence substantially by the ways in which they care for them during the first six years of life. Fast-growing brains need stimulating mental activity and learning to read is one of the most satisfying and worthwhile forms of early learning.

In the early 1900s Dr Montessori discovered that pre-school children could learn to read and enjoy the process immensely. Since that time, numerous research studies carried out on early reading have documented its long-term benefits for children, especially when it comes to language development.

We teach our young children many skills such as catching a ball, balancing bricks, and sorting shapes. Learning to read is just as much fun and even more rewarding for little children – matching sounds to the squiggles on the page and ‘pushing’ those sounds together to form a word. Young children are natural learners.

A few 3-year-olds and most 4-year-olds are ready to learn to read – but some prove unhappy, fidgety, and unwilling to follow instructions. If this is the case, just continue the immensely valuable activity of reading to the child for a couple of months and then try again.