Category: Reading

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

Exercise & Diet

By - July 5, 2024
You can be skinny and strong if you only eat enough carbohydrates to metabolize your protein, and make sure you get enough potassium to metabolize the carbohydrates. Your body needs carbohydrates to metabolize protein. So, don't cut out too many carbohydrates or you can't grow muscle. Some people get skinny by cutting carbohydrates. Other peo…

Cooking

By - July 5, 2024
Cooking uses pots and pans. Pots are deep and can hold water, broth, soup, or sauce. Pans are shallow and good for frying. A wok is like a pot and pan together, which is why it is so useful. There are eight types of cooking pot and pan surfaces: porcelain, no-stick surface, ceramic surface, carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, coppe…

Religion and Literature

By - June 19, 2024
Religion teaches us things that science can't understand. This can include: How the world was made before science can see What happens after we die Angels, demons, and things in the "spirit world" Ethics, morality, charity, virtue, honesty, and love The one-man Savior of the whole world Scripture vs Doctrine Every religion has …

Scientific Method

By - June 19, 2024
The scientific method has seven steps: State the question Research existing information Form a hypothesis Perform an experiment Analyze data Form a conclusion, repeat if needed Report findings Many Sciences Science means "study" or "learning". So, "scientific method" means "learning method". The scientific method is for e…

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…