Reading with Miss Amanda Book Series

As a child, Amanda struggled with the traditional learning process and later discovered it was because she had a learning difference, dyslexia. Later her two children were also diagnosed with dyslexia. Dyslexia is the most common learning difference that causes children to struggle in school. It is characterized by difficulties with processing words into meaningful information. Amanda learned to identify a pattern among children who struggled to recognize lowercase letters visually and did not understand the relationship between the letter and the sound that the letter made.

Amanda remains a strong supporter of her enrolled students and is still personally involved with her Montessori teachers and their student's educational needs. Amanda has been a teacher, reading tutor, and mentor for over 40+ years. This allowed her to observe the benefits of a strong and connected education journey from an early age. During Amanda's years with the school, many parents have sought her guidance for reading educational support at home. This has inspired her to write a book series with intuitive lessons for children in the 3-6 age group. With step, lessons are offered simply by reading the dialog of a real Montessori teacher in the book. 

Amanda has completed this series of books titled “Reading with Miss Amanda,” which focuses on phonemic awareness and letter sound recognition. After five long years of working on this series, she is excited to have a tool to support parents at home to show their children how to learn to read at their own pace. As both a Montessori teacher and a mother of two children with learning differences, Amanda has witnessed children's struggle with learning to read. Her goal for the “Reading with Miss Amanda” series is to make learning to read a fun, confidence-building, and educational experience for all children. The series and the traditional Montessori language materials are used in all three Montessori classrooms at Big City.