About the Author
Dr. Phyllis Haddox and the material she created to support Direct Instruction use.
Dr. Phyllis Haddox co-authored the first edition of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons with Siegfried Engelmann (1931-2019), the originator of the Direct Instruction programs and teaching approach. She recently completed the second edition of TYC by using Engelmann’s instructional design principles and incorporating feedback from parents and others. She added new features and updated and revised the book to make it an even easier-to- teach resource. Elaine Bruner co-authored the original program from which TYC was adapted.
Dr. Haddox created and is gifting you Videos (segments for training, demonstration, and information) and printable Supplemental Materials (sound cards, word cards, progress chart, and more) for Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons so that you may pay forward the gift of reading.
Dr. Phyllis Haddox
Background
Phyllis began her career in education as a classroom teacher and a reading specialist in California. Later, as a faculty member at the University of Oregon, she provided hands-on training to undergraduate and graduate students in supervisory, teaching, and management techniques.
As an educational consultant, she worked extensively in the United States (including Hawaii), Canada, and the Caribbean directly with students (preschool through college level), teachers, administrators, and parents. Nationally and internationally, she has presented workshops, training thousands of teachers and paraprofessionals (including tutors) to use Direct Instruction techniques and programs. Some tutors created successful businesses after learning from her how to use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
In addition to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, she co-authored with Engelmann Thinking Basics and Concept Applications (published by McGraw-Hill as part of the Corrective Reading Series). Dr. Haddox helped develop the science and mathematics laserdisc series and has produced more than 20 reading training videos.
Phyllis has also worked as an instructional design consultant for the Mayo Clinic on training videos and for author Barbara Sher on two of her books (Live the Life You Love and It’s Never Too Late, If You Start Now).
Dr. Haddox was the Director of the University of Oregon’s Direct Instruction Model of the seminal federally funded Follow Through Project. This project has been called the “largest education experiment ever conducted.” It provided a broad range comparison of 13 major educational approaches used in 170 communities with 75,000 children each year. Data were collected by Stanford Research Institute and analyzed by Abt Associates. The comparison showed that students in the U of O’s Direct Instruction Model achieved the highest performance levels in language, reading, math, spelling, and emotional well-being. Project sites managed by Phyllis were labeled “exemplary” by the United States Office of Education’s Joint Dissemination/Review Panel. For more information on Project Follow Through and subsequent evaluations, see Research and Reviews.
For resources on teaching groups and managing/supervising Direct Instruction implementations, Dr. Haddox has developed and is offering the following for free:
Reading Mastery Format Practice Series Videos for training and information on how to teach GROUPS of children to read with DI programs.
Direct Instruction Implementation/Management/Supervision Documents developed by Dr. Haddox with Siegfried Engelmann.
Direct Instruction Design and Strategies: a “SLIDE” Presentation–developed by Dr. Haddox.
