About Me

Janice Porter is a former home
schooling mom. She
home schooled from First
Grade through High School.

She taught a six-weeks Reading
class to First through Third
graders at a small village
school while home schooling.

 She has tutored students
individually in Reading with
phonics, and was a Reading tutor-volunteer in a small town public school not realizing that Johnny was taught to memorize words- a method called ‘Look-Say’!

Janice was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She is one of four siblings and the daughter of southern parents from Texas. Her parents moved to Alaska about a year after their marriage. In the Anchorage School District, Phonics was taught as the method to learn to read, and Janice, along with her siblings learned to read very fluently in the First Grade. Two of her other children born and raised in Alaska, also learned to  read by Phonics. Her husband learned to read by Phonics in upstate New York before the District changed to Look-Say.

"When my son read aloud to me at home from his First Grade Reader with memorized words prompted by pictures, I knew he was not reading by Phonics.

Since a few years had passed- plus we had moved to the 'Lower 48' to my husband's new job in Colorado, things had changed in education. Several issues including Reading by memorizing words prompted his removal from public school. We  became a homeschooling family where I taught him how to read, as well as instructed him in all state required academics. We continued to home school through his high school years.

Over the years of home schooling I've read a lot of phonics-teaching books and materials.  I wanted to simplify information to make Phonics quick and easy to understand and teach (because it really is), so she wrote it down and made an Ebook and a print or hard copy for parents and tutors. 

 www.janiceportermy.blogspot  provides information on teaching reading with Phonics, the various problems associated with public school's 'Look-Say' reading method, topics like, "Why Johnny Can't Read, Spell, or Write Composition",   information for correcting readers with Dyslexia, Reading Topics in the News, plus she  included  Tips and Tricks (excerpts from my book) for helping your child to read better.

She is  also an independent Notary Signing Agent (Mobile Notary) specializing in facilitating of the signing of mortgage documents in homes, title companies, and lending offices since 2003.  

She currently reside in the Pacific Northwest and raise 7 laying hens, 2 cats, and one dog.