Want to buy it? This link will take you to straight to it on Amazon. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
From their website:
Children easily move step–by–step with phonics (sounds for letters) and learn the essential skills (left out of other phonics programs) to blend the sounds into words. Built on this unique phonics foundation, children quickly start to read those words in fully illustrated stories. This book was designed to be user–friendly for parents, grandparents, tutors or others who want to teach young (3– to 6–year old) non–readers. The book contains 100 twenty–minute lessons that are clearly color–coded and scripted (including how to motivate, teach, and correct) so that both you and the child you are teaching can be successful. How successful? After kids complete the 100 lessons they read on a solid second grade level.
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I have used 100 Easy Lessons with 4 of my 5 chidren (the littlest is only 1 still)! It is extremely easy to use. My first two kids started out with a phonics program through Veritas Press that was very expensive and very involved. After the first year we switched to something more mother friendly. The girls always looked forward to mommmy time and learned to read well after completing. I would recommend it as an easy, mother friendly, simple and to the point approach to learning to read, especially needed when you have other little ones in the house at the same time!
It is a well worn book that will stay in our teaching set till all my kids can read.
We have used this with 3 of my 4 children (#4 is only 2). Part of the reason was the price, definitely affordable and then it has been there for each child after. It was a good starter for me teaching phonics. As a newbie to homeschooling, teaching reading was a scary thought and this walks you through word for word.
It is a confidence booster for them as well because they read words with in just a couple of lessons.
That said, we have NEVER finished the curriculum. It works well till 50-60 and then it is too much time sitting still for my kinders to handle. It led to struggles and we ended up stopping by 60.
We have switched to all different kinds of readers and they have jumped to reading from there. It did give us the ability to jump to readers with the basic phonics process already there and most of the sounds.
My oldest are 12 and 11, they LOVE to read. Even with our struggles at the end, I still chose this to start with my now 6 year old. Instead of waiting till the struggles happen, when we got to lesson 50 I started to transition to readers.
We used this book because it was on the shelf and seemed so easy – all in one book! Yes, she did learn to read but I wish I’d taken the time to find a more fun method.