At a presentation at Bank Street Book Store, developmental psychologist and reading specialist Irene Daria, Ph.D. shares tips on how to quickly and easily teach children sight words in order of frequency of use.

Dr. Daria is the author of Steps to Reading, a reading curriculum that enables anyone to quickly and easily teach a child to read. The curriculum is packaged into a series of engaging, fun workbooks that can be used by parents at home, or by teachers in a classroom. The Steps to Reading workbooks teach phonics in an explicit, systematic way and present sight words in order of frequency of use. In addition to delightful worksheets, each workbook includes phonics Bingo games, board games, online activities, and recommendations of little books the child can read at each step of the way to becoming a proficient reader.

You do not need to purchase Steps to Reading for these videos to help you. In these videos, Dr. Daria shares the step-by-step details about how she -- and her workbooks -- teach children to read. As you listen to her speak, and watch her interact with children, you’ll see why so many celebrities have asked Dr. Daria to teach their children how to read, and why actor Kate Winslet says, “Irene is remarkable at teaching children how to read. How wonderful that the skills Irene so clearly, and beautifully, taught my children are now available in these books for parents to use at home and for teachers to use at school.”