Brenda G. Martin

Brenda G. Martin, author of the book, “The Alphabet Learned Quickly and Easily”, was raised with her brother by her parents in a mid size Texas town. Both sets of grandparents and other relatives lived in that town too. Life was enjoyable with family nearby. Brenda went to college to study to be a teacher. She taught 32 years.

I developed the methods in this book over the years. While helping students who struggled to read, she kept trying to come up with successful methods to help struggling readers when ideas that worked began. Brenda taught the alphabet and its phonetic sounds, which are the basic foundations of learning to read. By combining multi-sensory methods (such as auditory, visual, and kinesthetic) with association memory techniques, learning is accelerated and enhanced. The senses of sight, hearing, and touch are merged with memory training to help students be more successful in reading. Reading —complex concept—becomes easier to learn by using these techniques.

Reading requires knowledge of the letters and their phonetic sounds on an automatic level and must be over-learned to be in a person’s long-term memory. When a student struggles to recall the sounds for the letters, reading and spelling are hindered, and reading is less smooth. There are large numbers of adults and children who do not make all the letters’ sounds correctly. This book will help them correct these common mistakes through picture association and stories.

I developed the methods in this book over the years to find the most effective ways of teaching and learning for all students. Stories were composed from the unique pictures to help students visualize the letters while remembering the phonetic sounds. With the ability to see the letter inside the picture, the student knows 2 words beginning with that letter’s sound. All the methods in this book help students know the direction of the letters, thereby decreasing reversals or flipping of letters. Visual and auditory memory improves. A difficult concept is simplified and made both fun and interesting. Letters are less confusing.