Ready, Set, Read! Quick Guide

by Ellen M. Shapiro

24-page illustrated guide for the busy parent with everything you need to teach the fundamentals of reading and get the most out of using “Is It a Word–Or Not?” flip-book with your child. Just follow our ten easy lessons. You’ll be assessing your child’s understanding of basic reading concepts, teaching the basics of reading, and most important, engaging with your child in fun learning games like matching alphabet letter squares with pictograms that cue the letter sounds. Watch your child begin reading syllables and words! Reproducible pages with graphics may be photocopied and reused over and over.

60 pages, Spiral-bound

Published January 1, 2021

About the author

Hi, I’m Ellen Shapiro, graphic designer and writer, head of Visual Language LLC, a New York communications firm. A graduate of UCLA's College of Fine Arts, I write about projects, education, and trends in graphic and product design, advertising, photography, typography, and illustration.
My new novel, THE SECRET BUTTONS, historical fiction for readers 10 and up, follows the journey two young girls from Vienna, Austria, to wartime rural England, to Brooklyn. New York, where they rebuild some of what was lost in the Holocaust and all of themselves.
My first book, “Clients and Designers,” was published by Watson-Guptill in 1989. I’ve written two editions of “The Graphic Designer’s Guide to Clients” (Skyhorse, 2014). My award-winning Alphagram Learning Materials (http:theAlphagramShop.etsy.com) are helping kids everywhere learn to read, write, and spell.Magazine writing includes essays and firm profiles for Communication Arts; serving as a contributing editor of Print magazine; and continuing to write and photograph for printmag (https://www.printmag.com/author/ellen...).
I’ve been privileged to judge design and advertising shows. the New School, and Pratt Institute, and lecture and speak (https://visualanguage.net/media/).