Miscellaneous

      When our daughter Ilana was two, my wife and I decided as an experiment to teach her to read. She did very well, and the experiment continued with her two brothers, Oren and Allon. It gradually developed a coherent method, a bag of tricks which other parents may find useful. Here (35+ years later) is a detailed account of what we did.

How Ilana Learned to Read--B         (Illustrated version)

The above account, but with black-and-white images of the improvised graphics used for teaching reading.

The above files with their graphics and an introduction page (resembling this one, but not identical) can be downloaded from http://www.phy6.org/outreach/IlanaMisc.zip   (less than 1 Mb).

History and Development of the City of College Park, Berwyn Heights, Greenbelt and Adjacent Areas