Writing Without Reversing in One Week - Samar Hatoum (i can read with my eyes shut .txt) 📗

Cover, Preface

 

 

WRITING WITHOUT REVERSING IN ONE WEEK!

for Children Aged 4-6 years

 

Written by Samar Hatoum

Illustrated by Julia Hatoum

 

Digital Edition

Copyright © 2013 by Samar Hatoum

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the Author. For information regarding permission, write to JJHatoum@gmail.com

 

 

A distinctive book dedicated to our distinctive Jude; you inspired us to make this book, but your joyful presence in our lives remains the inspiration that’s above all!

Mom Samar and Sister Julia

 

 

 

 

 

 

A special thank you goes out to the book's reviewers, Mrs. Ghada Hamade and Dr. Najwa Dham, for their valuable or better yet, priceless comments.

Another big thank you goes out to Dr. Khaldoun Hamade who took up the challenge of uploading the book to the KDP site and figuring out all the associated technical glitches.

Preface

The users of this instructions book are parents/teachers/caregivers and its targeted clients are children aged 4 to 6 years.

The book's topic and title reflect the author's own experience with her son's struggle with reversed writing. Actually, reversing the direction of numbers and letters remains one of the most common challenges faced by children when first introduced to writing – a struggle that may take some up to two years to overcome. The book presents a unique and effective approach to writing numbers and letters, resulting in tremendous reduction of this common letter reversal downtime experienced by children in their early learning years.

Using the left and right directions, music, eye-catching colorful illustration and the concept of focusing on the few to learn the whole; this book’s witty learning techniques offer amazing results and help children to overcome their reversing challenge effortlessly, quickly, and while having fun. The book's framework aims at keeping kids interested and engaged as they see, discover, learn, sing, and practice in a fun learning experience.

How to use this instructions book

It is advisable to work with your child(ren) on the instructions of this book in their presentation sequence; concentrate first on numbers and once mastered, move on to capital letters followed by small letters.

For best results, and to further reinforce the book's learning outcomes, kindly ask your child(ren) to practice writing numbers and letters using the taught technique herein, at least once a week till the full mastery stage is assured. Singing the book’s song along with your child(ren) while practicing is extremely effective. The book's song is available on YouTube at the following link Numbers and Letters... Find out What They Like!; the song is performed by Julia and Jude Hatoum. Julia also introduces this book and gives away the story behind the book in another video posted on YouTube at the following URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIBkpWL7Czs.

This book has colorful images and is best viewed with Kindle Fire or applications such as Kindle for iPhone or PC.

About the Author and Illustrator

Samar Hatoum is a holder of a Ph-D. in Civil Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. Hatoum is a mother of two, Julia and Jude. Her passion is the mental, emotional, and physical well being of her children.

 

Julia Hatoum is a bright ambitious fifth grader. In addition to being an excellent student, she is a third grader in guitar, a good swimmer, a talented little artist, a distinguished speller (competes) and has a green belt in Taekwondo; and the best is yet to come!

 

 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents 6

Jude's Writing 7

7

Learning Your Right and Left 8

10

Jude's Writing

                             

Jude, a five years old at the time, used to have major difficulties with reversing numbers and letters. The following is a sample of his writing only 3 days after using the techniques of this book. Jude's writing is featured herein to demonstrate the book's effective methodology and learning outcomes.

Before...                              

continued

 

After...

Learning Your Right and Left

Do you know your right from your left?

This is your left hand...

Can you raise your left hand way up in the sky... Super! Way to go!

And this is your right hand...

Now can you raise your right hand way up in the sky... Super again! You are an amazingly smart kid!

Learning Your Right and Left

Most people write with their right hand

Few people write with their left hand

Do you write with your left or right hand?

Learning Your Right and Left

Sing along (http://youtu.be/6TsvdLIj8I0)

This is my right hand and this is my left hand;

Most people write with right, write with right, write with right;

Few people write with left, write with left, write with left;

Do you know your right from your left now?

Shout: YEAAAAAH!

GREAAAAAT!

YIPPEE YIPPEE BHOOOOO

YIPPEE YIPPEE BHOOOOO

end

Find out how the left and right directions are used so wittily and usefully in this book

 

 

Author Bio

Samar Hatoum is a holder of a Ph-D. in Civil Engineering from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a certified Project Management Professional from the Project Management Institute. She currently holds the position of General Manager of a known construction company. Hatoum is a mother of two, Julia and Jude. Her passion is the mental, emotional, and physical well being of her children.

Imprint

Publication Date: 11-13-2013

All Rights Reserved

Dedication:
A distinctive book dedicated to our distinctive Jude; you inspired us to make this book, but your joyful presence in our lives remains the inspiration that’s above all! -Mom Samar and Sister Julia A special thank you goes out to the book's reviewers, Mrs. Ghada Hamade and Dr. Najwa Dham, for their valuable or better yet, priceless comments. Another big thank you goes out to Dr. Khaldoun Hamade who took up the challenge of uploading the book to the KDP site and figuring out all the associated technical glitches.