Mother and daughter beside a white Mustang with a surfboard on the roof

Santa Barbara, CA

Book 1

Cover of A Surfer's Guide to Non-Phonetic Reading Instruction

Not all
students
can
learn
to read
phonetically.

Book 2

Cover of A Surfer's Guide to Better English

Everyone
wants to
sound
intelligent,
even
surfers!

Cover photo: 2026 (C) Susan Ramser, Santa Barbara, CA

A Surfer's Guide to Better English logo

About the Author

Like many, I have struggled with dyslexia my entire life. We dyslexics know the routine; years of not learning to read in school, teachers pulling their hair out because we just didn’t “get it.” We were never like the other kiddos, and didn’t understand why. Well, the “why” is because dyslexic students cannot learn to read phonetically, the very method of reading instruction found in all classrooms across America today.

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