Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons4943145
If you can give your child a thirst for reading, the whole globe opens to him. We noticed it with Joy, who at 6 was reading at a level twice her age. But for Joy, a visual learner, the process had been an easy, almost effortless process. When we attempted to use the very same strategies with Hope, we found two things: Hope is not a visual learner and we really had no approach to teach reading! So with Hope we had to start from scratch. We located ourselves bouncing from one approach to another, scatterbrained, but too poor to place out the megabucks required for any of the flashier programs. And as you may well anticipate, we did not make a great deal of progress. Then we stumbled across this guide! What a require it met.
Phonics-based mostly, easy to stick to, inexpensive, nonconsumable, and self-contained, it was all that we had been looking for. There are no workbooks, no flashcards, nothing fancy—just you, one-on-one with your child for twenty minutes a day.
Based on the nationally productive DISTAR program, this program has been adapted for mother or father and child use, and would seem customized-made for the home school setting. Yes, this method does use visual clues in the first 80 lessons, but then they drop the clues and your child will take off running. We had been doubtful at first, but soon after going through it with four kids and hearing hundreds of “success” stories, we're believers! Soon after 100 lessons your child will be reading at a solid 2nd grade level.
My only complaint involves the stories. There is a new story every single lesson, starting up at lesson 13, and they are too silly for my tastes. But they had been the highlights for all our kids, so I won't complain also loudly! Hope, soon after 50 lessons, was reading smoothly, creating brief “stories,” and on her own picked up and read other "easy" books. She finished the guide before her 5th birthday and effortlessly moved into a 3rd grade reading text. Grace also finished the plan although nevertheless 4, although there had been days that we more than exceeded the 20 minutes prescribed.
