For the classroom teachers, resource room teachers, tutors, home-schooling parents and others who want to help every child learn to read, write and spell, this set includes an Alphagram WordMaker with 169 letter-sound cards in 6 ring-bound packs and the 160-page Alphagram "Ready, Set, Read!" Curriculum Guide.
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/).