Interactive English Language Enrichment Book Launches at Lulu.com

February 25, 2008 - Press Dispensary - To help boost children’s literacy and reasoning, British educationalist Ian Miles has published his first interactive ‘blanked verse’ collection, Rhyme and Reason, on Lulu.com ( http://www.lulu.com/content/2089776 ).

Mr Miles, an Oxford graduate of 25 years’ wide educational experience and director of IanGenuity EPLC, a teaching and performance consultancy, wrote these 200+ verses over a few years to help develop students’ literacy, comprehension, reasoning and spelling skills and is now launching them potentially worldwide.

The collection’s child-friendly ‘voice’ covers a broad range of everyday experience and imagination, encouraging observation and deduction. Young readers spot or deduce each verse’s blanked rhymes by their sound and sense, and enjoy putting in the puzzle’s final pieces as a co-creative achievement.

Trials have brought cheerful, positive results with a wide variety of young people discovering language patterns and fresh realms of activity and experience. Parents report many interesting discussions arising on topics such as popular science and technical history, the natural world, folk customs and (of course) the vagaries of English life and language.

Val Thrupney, seasoned teacher and parent, comments: “Rhyme and Reason offers a challenge that’s also fun, from an accomplished natural writer who clearly loves bringing children and knowledge together. Youngsters do, and others will, really enjoy the reward of completing these entertaining and thought-provoking rhymes!”

The collection comes with an answer key which could be removed by adult mentors preferring to keep children’s minds at work.

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Notes for editors
Ian Miles established his teaching and performance consultancy, IanGenuity EPLC, in 2002. Miles teaches multiple subjects to school and other students in the Oxford area and is an active musician.

For further information, please contact:
Ian Miles, director , IanGenuity EPLC
Tel: 01235 426109 / 07788 715873
Email:
Site: www.iangenuity.net