Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
About the Program
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is an adaptation of the DISTAR Fast Cycle Reading Program. We had success with it. All that you need is the book and a notebook for handwriting practice, or you can use my handwriting printables. You do not need tapes or other expensive extras.
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Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons at CBD By S. Engelmann, P. Haddox & E. Bruner / Simon & Schuster Trade Sales
Early readers hold an educational advantage---and the respected DISTAR reading program gives your children that head start. By investing 20 minutes a day, you'll have your preschoolers and non-reading elementary school children reading at a second grade level in 100 days. Covers sound identification, decoding of words and sentences, irregulars, and more. Clear instructions included. 395 pages, softcover from Fireside.
Before using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, read the introduction and the parents' guide. The parents' guide explains the program and how to use it. It is 27 pages long, but please read it.
This is a teacher intensive program. That means that you, the teacher, will sit with the child and teach the entire lesson giving immediate feedback and correction. This is not a workbook program.
Allow around 15 to 30 minutes each day for this class. Don't do the class if your child is tired, sick, or hungry. Be comfortable, sit in a large chair together or at a table that is comfortable for both of you with your chairs side by side. Read the teacher's script to your child. Be bright and interested as you go through the lesson, even if you are pretending - be interested. If the lesson is a no-go, stop and try again tomorrow. If all of the lessons are a no-go, stop and try again in around 3 months.
Sound wiritng is a part of the lessons. Writing a letter as one is sounding out the letter has been shown to help with remembering sound and letter association in the child's memory.
