A Pretty Girl Was Alpha Bette: Including The Godfrey Method for Phonics Learning
Shannah Barber Godfrey is a chemist and program manager in the aerospace and ammunitions industry. She has 14 children of her own, for whom she started writing several years ago. She has been writing and using her successful phonics method with children since 1990. She changed phonics from abstract ideas to concrete ones for her own children and taught them to read before kindergarten. Shannah has shared her phonics method with friends, sisters, neighbors, grown children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, etc., all with success. Shannah has written several engaging children's books using her enchanting picture-letters. Leah Fershtut Shingleton is her sister and illustrator, who creates darling, colorful pictures that stimulate children's minds. Leah created the artwork for the phonics picture-letters and the illustrations for the book. The author and illustrator are committed to giving their customers fun and exciting tools to open any child's mind to reading. They provide wholesome ideas and hands-on materials that give each child an edge on reading, even those with LD. Their approach encourages priceless, enjoyable, adult-child interactions.