I have been using Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons with my older girls. They do great on everything except the "rhyming" sequences. Neither of them get it. I have gone over it ad nauseum with them. One child is extremely bright and gets most things immediately, the other child is much slower to grasp and retain knowledge. If only one of them were struggling, I would not be concerned. Since both of them are having problems, I wonder if I am communicating poorly. We are in the beginning of the book where the words really do not rhyme per se, they just begin with the same sound. Around lesson 11 is when they actually begin rhyming words. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to make it easily understandable? Has anyone experienced this challenge? Would it hurt if I skip this exercise? Is this exercise critical to the success of the program? I keep moving to the next lesson, maybe I should not be moving ahead? Should I just repeat the lesson over and over until they get the rhyming sequences?
My kids both did 100 easy lessons and finished it up last year. I don't think I stuck to the rhyming section verbatim. I can't remember if we had problems with that part or what so I just had them read the words. It seemed to work out fine that way for us. Now I did have to do a separate lesson just on rhyming to teach that concept to them. We made a game out of it. We would say words and see if we could find words that rhyme by replacing the first letter. Maybe someone else did the rhyming part and it worked for them and they would have more tips.
I used TYCTR for my oldest 2 and now for my youngest. It did not work well for my middle son. I think the Rhyming is pretty important and a good indicator of reading readiness. All but one of my children struggled with it and this is what we did. when we got to that part if they struggled we stopped the lessons for that week and played rhyming games- all different kinds. Read Dr suess books etc. when they had a good handle on that. then we went back to the lessons. All of my children where 5 or older when it caught on. We tried at 4 and it did not go well. but at 5 or 5.5 it went very smoothly and they where reading at 3rd grade level by the end of the book. hope that helps
