Melanie West

Melanie West is author of The Right Side of Learning as well as PictureFirst Learning Sight Words Flash Cards and Sight Words workbooks. As an Educational Psychologist, Melanie specializes in helping kinesthetic, creative children learn to read. In her popular TEDx video, Melanie redefines how to teach kindergarten sight words in order to build long-term reading success. As a mother of 4, Melanie knows how important (and fun:) it is to teach sight word reading using pictures, movement, and creativity.