Author Dr. Jan is a K-12 Reading Specialist teacher and tutor. Her students range from pre-K to adults with diverse backgrounds, needs, and learning disabilities. She has helped ESL students, students with low esteems, failing students, dyslexic students, students in drug rehab, and students with severe reading fluency and comprehension problems.

For 50 years her success in helping students learn to easily read is attributed to her designed sequence of lessons based on phonetic word families, Dolche and Frye sight words, vocabulary meaning, comprehension activities, and repetition of skills which ensure reading skill mastery.

Dr. Jan was a college reading instructor, as well as instructor of Teacher Education. She was Coordinator and Observer for the State Florida Professional Orientation Program and Teacher Certification, a Reading Teacher/Intern Supervisor, and trained in Remediation of Auditory Comprehension Skills.

The author graduated from USF with a B.A. in Early Childhood/Elementary Education, M.A. in Elementary Education with Reading/Language Arts Emphasis, and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with Emphasis in Reading, English, & Higher Education.

Dr. Jan has presented her findings from her reading research studies at the Florida Council of Independent Schools, Bay Area Independent Schools Seminars, and at the 2007 Florida Reading Research Conference.

Her professional and honorary affiliations include membership in the International Literacy Association, Kappa Delta Pi Honorary Society in Education, and Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society.

Dr. Jan is also the author of a children’s book, The Golden Banana Peels, which has been recently published. It is an animal story of friendship and protecting our environment.

Really Learn to Read! was created from Dr. Jan’s expertise, sincere devotion, and years of experience with the reading problems and needs of students of all ages.

This program of five sequential short vowel reading series was designed to make reading fun for all ages, providing a life-long comprehensive foundation that empowers children, teenagers, and adults with the reading skills and self-confidence they need for today and in the future.

The successive five long vowel reading series are next! They are equally fun and further ensure reading success!

These lessons are intentionally student, parent, tutor, and classroom teacher friendly.

Really Learn to Read! Really Works!

~ Dr. Jan