I'm looking for that book about teaching reading in 100 steps, can some one here (I've seen it mentioned here) tell me exactly what its called and the company that sells it, and maybe even the price if you know. Thanks. Amy
It's Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. I sold my copy, so I can't give you any more information. It just didn't work for us. My best friend used it and loved it.
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons Here's a site with a link to the book "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" It is for sell at a discount. http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/weblinks/prereaders.htm There are a lot of other links on this site too.
Amy, does your library have Hooked on Phonics? You could work with all 4 kids at each of their own levels.
Oh thanks ladies..... I really need some kind of instuction book, I just can't get them to do it my way..... Ok, I don't even know what my way is, memorization is all I have so far, we do phonics, we did the letter people, we do letter/word associations, and still they are getting caught up....... Malcolm is doing pretty well, but Sammie can read some but gets hung up on easy words like THE! Eva tells all the kids how to spell.... she has some kind of photographic memory, and Donald..... well he just doesn't care yet which didn't concern me until now because of all the chemo he was on I think slowed him down some, but its hard to say, but if I put in a star wars game...... he can read anything on it just about:roll:
I'd want something you can do right now, not a book you have to read first. HOP helped me with Jeannie.
I have no experience with this book, I did find it on another site and bought it for 7.00 Im waiting for it now..
Sami is still enjoying the 100 Easy lessons we are on lesson 80, I think (We took a labor day week and a half long holiday.) Our book is well loved and qute tattered now, one page had to be taped back in - cover falling off. Each lesson takes about 15 minutes plus whatever time you spend on writing. It's all scripted so you just sit and read it. You don't need any flash cards or special workbooks etc. Sami climbs up in my lap and we read it together. It's always a big deal to cover the pictures up so Sami won't see them until after I ask the comprehension questions (she gets excited over it). Once the very basics are covered there is a story and picture at the eand of each lesson. Sami looks foreward to the story parts and Yells "YAY! STORY TIME!!" as soon as we finish the practice parts. LOL It has two ways to do writing the short one is right in each lesson and the more involved one is explained in the Parent Guide in the beginning of the book. I origionally got it used for $7.50 but the cover price marked on it is $17.95. http://www.startreading.com/index.htm looks like it's the official site for them but it's order form is lousy. You can see a picture of the book thugh and the links page has tons of info on it. Now at lesson 80 Sami reads Dr. Seuss and stories from a couple of 1st grade primers she wanted from the used bookstore with only a little sounding out here and there. I was a little worried about transitioning from the books orthography to regular print but it turned out to be easy for her... probably because I had her using the easy readers from way before the book transitions to regular print. Instead of problems with that, she got mad because they made the font smaller and harder for her to see.
We used this book and it was wonderful! But a little background, first: I bought this book thinking I could just sit down w/ dd and begin. Not the case. In fact, it seemed so complicated at first glance, I put it away. But later when I had time to read the intro on my own and develop a plan, I came to love it and so did dd! Only we started very young and her fine motor skills were not up to the writing practices. I wasn't going to let that hamper her enthusiasm for wanting to learn to read, so we just ignored the writing part and stuck to the reading lessons only. She would ask for it every day. I bought one of those large poster boards with the hundreds chart(just a grid w/ numbers 1-100) (since there are 100 lessons), and a bunch of stickers and for every lesson completed, my then 3yo dd could mark the # for each lesson completed w/ her choice of stickers. I still have that chart, and she was reading fluently by the time she was 4 years old! But mainly because she SO wanted to know how!! If your child isn't ready or interested, I wouldn't suggest such a structured plan at that early an age, but if they are totally gung-ho, then I say go for it!! I would swear by this book, but it may not be for all learning styles, etc.
authors of 100 lessons Siegfried Engelmann with Phyllis Haddox Elaine Bruner I bought my copy from Amazon.com We resorted to this book after encountering some "brick walls" when using Horizons Phonics K. Had I had more experience teaching reading we may have made it with Horizons, but I was failing to teach my student how to blend sounds. The approach taken in 100 lessons was just what the doctor ordered and we were up and running in a few days. I was at a time when I was getting discouraged as a new homeschooler, and a fresh approach that worked was great for us. 100 lessons did not teach phonics rules as such, but did have my student reading at close to a 2nd grade level. We are now using Explode the Code and some of the work book pages from the Horizons material to teach the phonics rules. THis is going real fast as we are doing much review in the process.
Free Phonic Books free phonics books. http://www.progressivephonics.com/download_p2.htm wonderful free phonic books to print. Seven in all.
