ABOUT THE PROGRAM AUTHOR

Marion Coulson trained as an Infant teacher in Melbourne, Australia, and had many years as a successful primary school teacher of beginning reading, interspersed with lecturing at a Teacher’s College on how to teach reading. 

When her daughters were young she undertook a Master of Education research study objectively assessing whether parents could teach reading to their children.   Her very positive results and the enthusiasm and enjoyment of the parents involved encouraged her to continue this work, showing parents how to teach reading to their own children using the program included in this book 

With the help of an Innovations Grant she was able to continue the program in a variety of schools where it was also enthusiastically received.   After her appointment as a Principal of a large Primary School she continued this work encouraging parents to participate in the teaching of reading to their children at her own school for many years.

Marion is now a very proud mother of two daughters, a neuroscientist and a neurosurgeon, and four wonderful grandchildren.  Her daughters, who both live interstate, asked for access to her program to assist them in teaching their preschoolers to read.  So the program was resurrected, revised and retried successfully.