Category: Reading

Materials for reading and learning to read, different from the “English” language learner curriculum

The Ginger Bread Man

By - July 17, 2022
by Jim Aylesworth (1875) Once there lived an old man, an old woman, and a little boy. One day, the old woman was baking bread. With the dough that was left over, she made a Gingerbread Man with the little boy’s help. The old woman made the shape of the Gingerbread Man. The boy put two black currants as his eyes, and a red cherry as the nose, a c…

Four Little Mice

By - March 10, 2019
Buy the illustrated paperback on Amazon ($12.99) | YouTube ⓒ Copyright, written & illustrated by Jesse Steele (2019-2020) Four little mice lived together, somewhere upstairs in the big, big city—a blue mouse, a green mouse, a pink mouse, and a yellow mouse. The yellow mouse talked too much. The pink mouse didn't talk enough. The green mo…

Read with Dot – About

By - February 21, 2018
Introduction This began as a project in Taiwan. I had so many people asking for English lessons that I wouldn’t have had time for anything else. So, I started this, using Taiwan as my laboratory, with the hope that I could create a concise teaching tool that would empower anyone to learn, with the help of any eleven year old native English speak…