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TEACH YOUR CHILDREN
THE READING SOUNDS OF LETTERS
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The idea of a story empowering children struggling with the pain of feeling less worthy than their friends manifested itself as I watched my brother being told he was difficult and stubborn when he was unable to sound out simple words. I watched him held back in school, as he watched his friends move forward. I watched a fellow schoolmate demoralized in school when asked to read in front of the class.
My work as a Social Service Director enabled me to teach mentally challenged children to read.
​I remember sitting on my grandfather’s knee as he read me the book, Heidi. Today’s computer age cannot take away the memories and feelings of safety and excitement that happens when a beloved parent or grandparent reads to a child from the child’s own book. Today in most homes, both parents work. The time to read a book is often lost. Drawing close to a child through short 15-minute bedtime stories gives back the closeness in today's complicated world. And teaching a child to read before they start school gives a child a head-start in life and a brighter future.
One of the reasons (I believe) children’s movies are often successful, is they also give to a parent a way to experience this same feeling of togetherness in a brief amount of time. And why I wrote two screenplays from the Saga of Keiko & Ruben in the Land of Sounds. The Saga Story is the universal tragedy of a child being shamed and their journey to overcome hardship in life.
Forty-five million people in the US are functionally illiterate (Literacy Project Foundation).
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Coloring Books are in progress.
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carla.hens@gmail.com
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The Sea Monster surfaced--gigantic, threatening and black. The scales on its back, its ears, eyes, and nose, were all monster-sized. The black scales glistened with the Jellybean Sea’s turquoise-blue jellybeans. The Sea Monster snorted. It sniffed. It scared Keiko to death. Yikes, thought Keiko. This is the end of me. “You guys need help?” The Sea Monster spoke in a surprisingly kind voice. voice.








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