Speaker’s Bureau
Lorraine Peoples
Member since 01/2010
Lorraine Peoples understands homeschooling. Through her website newsletter, “Tips and Notes” (www.youcanteachsomeonetoread.com) she personally communicates with many homeschool parents concerning their children’s reading. She has a step-daughter and a neice who homeschool their children.
Since Lorraine Peoples’ retirement and the publication of the book, YOU CAN TEACH SOMEONE TO READ, she has given over 150 workshops, seminars and book signings to bookstores (mostly Barnes & Noble), libraries and literacy groups throughout the country. Currently, with and for the Phoenix Lodestar Resource Center for homeless adults she is consulting and training to develop a viable reading program that works for them.
Award-winning author, Lorraine Peoples, has degrees in elementary education, and elementary curriculum and instruction and a certification in elementary administration. This included training in Religious Education. During her thirty-three years of teaching elementary age children, she also taught fifty-two workshops to educators on subjects including reading, science, team teaching and individualizing. In addition she trained twelve student teachers and mentored eight first year teachers. She taught numerous levels of Sunday School.
For sixteen years, the author taught all grades (except kindergarten) in Des Moines and Marshalltown, Iowa public schools. She was also active on curriculum committees. The next seventeen years she taught in private schools in Phoenix and Paradise Valley, AZ. At Phoenix Country Day School she was also Acting Dean of Lower School for a semester and active on curriculum and evaluation committees. At Tesseract School, she was also Elementary Program Director for several years. Lorraine is listed in various "Who's Who" Editions since 1986.
My Mission Statement
My personal mission is to help others teach someone to read. I have seen the techniques I describe in my book, YOU CAN TEACH SOMEONE TO READ, work for young and old alike. I used it in my classroom and when I tutor. It is my personal mission to make sure that everyone who is in a position to help someone else with their reading skills has the simplest, most satisfying and effective way to teach those they care about.
Honorarium
None
Past Engagements/Seminars
"Teaching Adults to Read" Phoenix, AZ - 1/2009
Presentations
FOR THE LOVE OF READING
"FOR THE LOVE OF READING"
During the interactive workshop for friends, parents and teachers, Lorraine will provide the participants with tips, techniques and activities for teaching someone to read from the beginning, or to improve their reading skills. Her goal is to provide information to make teaching readding easy, fun and satisfying for learner and teacher. Topics included are:
*Motivating the reading student
*Identifying the student’s learning style and interests
*Identifying the student’s physical roadblocks and what to do about them
*Evaluating the student’s current knowledge
*Teaching basic reading skills such as sight words, phonics and comprehension, using a variety of techniques and activities to match the student’s learning styles and needs.
*Making reading meaningful and comfortable for the student by matching his interests with books at his reading level
Suggested preparation: Go to Lorraine’s website, www.youcanteachsomeonetoread.com for further information. Be sure to click on the tab, “Tips and Discussion” to read the questions others have written Lorraine, and her responses. Write Lorraine with your concerns and successes. She will answer you online and possibly include some information and/or activities during the workshop as well.
Publications
YOU CAN TEACH SOMEONE TO READ: A HOW-TO BOOK FOR FRIENDS, PARENTS AND TEACHERS
This reading program makes teaching reading easy, fun and satisfying for learner and teacher. It provides tips for learning how the student learns best, and evaluations. The sequenced lessons include consonant and vowel sounds, sight words and rules for determining unknown words as well as lessons in structural analysis and comprehension and more. The many Silly Stories, activities and charts allow for strong personal interaction between teacher and student.
GLoBooks Publishing, LLC
2000
