Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons8735617
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 degree twice her age. But for Joy, a visual learner, the method had been an easy, almost effortless procedure. When we tried to use the very same techniques with Hope, we discovered two things: Hope is not a visual learner and we truly had no technique to teach reading! So with Hope we had to start from scratch. We discovered ourselves bouncing from one approach to an additional, scatterbrained, but also bad to put out the megabucks needed for any of the flashier applications. And as you may possibly expect, we did not make a lot of progress. Then we stumbled across this book! What a require it met.
Phonics-primarily based, easy to comply with, low-cost, nonconsumable, and self-contained, it was all that we have been looking for. There are no workbooks, no flashcards, nothing at all fancy—just you, one-on-one with your child for twenty minutes a day.
Primarily based on the nationally effective DISTAR system, this program has been adapted for parent and child use, and looks custom-made for the home school setting. Yes, this technique does use visual clues in the first 80 lessons, but then they drop the clues and your child takes off running. We have been doubtful at first, but following going through it with four children and hearing hundreds of “success” stories, we're believers! Soon after 100 lessons your child will be reading at a reliable 2nd grade level.
My only complaint includes the stories. There is a new story each lesson, starting at lesson 13, and they are also silly for my tastes. But they have been the highlights for all our kids, so I won't complain also loudly! Hope, soon after 50 lessons, was reading smoothly, writing quick “stories,” and on her own picked up and read other "easy" books. She completed the book before her 5th birthday and effortlessly moved into a 3rd grade reading text. Grace also finished the plan although even now 4, however there have been days that we more than exceeded the twenty minutes prescribed.
