I am the mother of a child with moderately severe autism and an intellectual disability. This first of a series of beginner readers was a labor of love powered by the love of helping my own child learn to read. I helped my daughter learn to read by combining the processes of (1) learning phonetics (letter sounds and how those sounds combine to make syllables, words, and sentences) and (2) pre-teaching vocabulary coupled with the use of word symbols. As a result, our daughter surfs the internet for information regarding things of interest to her. She browses through magazines and newspapers, and reads signs posted in the community. Being a visual-kinesthetic-tactile learner meant I had to find meaningful (i.e., meaningful to her) ways to present a large variety of words to her in a way that she found comprehensible. I began the reading journey with her by increasing her phonetic awareness through books full of photographs of objects and activities color coded based on phonetic sounds. Using symbol writing software, I combined creative ways to illustrate and/or play out the meaning of words and phrases. I modeled each word's syllable cadence and often tapped out the cadence with her. Sometimes an illustration or photograph was not adequate to portray a word's or phrase's meaning; so, I used video clips and role play, acting out a word's definition when it was helpful. A simple example is the word jump. To scaffold the embedding process (i.e., the meaning of the word) into her mind, assisting representational development, I showed her the word's meaning physically by jumping. Then, I'd have her act out the word's meaning by encouraging her to jump. Practice and rehearsal of various words found in the text she was reading at the time (whether the text was online, from a book, magazine, newspaper, pamphlet, comic book etc.) was instrumental in developing her current ability to read. Note: The "reading facilitator" does not have to be mom and/or dad. A relative, a friend, a reading buddy from school, even a high school student earning community service hours can make the phonetics plus pre-teaching vocabulary experience fun and memorable for your loved one. Over several years of searching and analyzing literacy research, I discovered that the strategies I found, when applied with patience, persistence, consistency, and playfulness, were the tools I needed to guide and grow my daughter's desire to LEARN to read as well as her ABILITY to read. Consequently, the premise of these truly short 20 stories are intended to be entertaining and engaging within a multi-sensory learning experience (i.e., visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic) driven by the reading facilitator's knowledge and understanding of the individual learner as well as the facilitator's creativity, flexibility, and responsiveness to the learner. The reading facilitator assists the learner to create within their mind, each word's meaning; each phrase's meaning; each sentence's meaning.Lastly, I include data sheets for reading facilitators to track learning progress and success over time. This is the first of a series of beginner "Reading With Ease: An Alternative Method." I hope your learner is as engaged in the process of learning to read as my own daughter has been and continues to be.