The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons
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We all want our children to read. With great pride we watch our children learn the alphabet and sing the ABC song. We buy picture books and read to them every night. When she can recognize a particular word or he can write his name, we are thrilled. But this is still far from reading the way we understand it. We try to teach reading, but often do not know where to start. So easy for us, reading seems so difficult and confusing to teach.
We found ourselves in this situation when our daughter was four years old. She learned the alphabet, and we were waiting for her to start reading some simple words. We sent for several commercial reading programs, the same ones you often hear advertised on the radio. What we got back was a slew of cassette tapes and flash cards. Our daughter would not sit and listen to the tapes, and the flash cards were all over the house. We also bought software programs for learning to read and found them too shallow and haphazard. Disappointed, we began to make our own simple exercises and stories for her to read. We read books on reading instruction for children, researched academic material, talked to parents and teachers, and began to develop a simple daily reading program. Michael's understanding of child psychology and development, and my desire for a simple, easy-to-follow method, led to the program you hold in your hands.
We have created the Reading Lesson for parents who want to teach their children to read and for instructors teaching basic reading skills to children. The program is suitable for both home schooling and classroom use. It is structured, clear and simple but it does require direct involvement of the parent or a teacher, which we believe is a key element in learning to read.
The Reading Lesson is designed for any child who shows interest in books and reading. Some unique features of this course also make it useful for older children with reading difficulties. What makes this program special The Reading Lesson offers an easy-to-follow recipe for teaching children to read. It takes a child with no reading skills to about the second grade level in reading. Never-too-hard and never-too-easy, step-by-step the lessons teach phonics and build the sight vocabulary. We begin the lessons with three to four sounds and introduce sight words as we go along. Word recognition skills develop through the use of key words. Once these key words are learned using Phonics, we encourage the child to read them as sight words to gain fluency. Certain words such as you and do are difficult to explain using the phonic principles. These and other non-phonic key words are presented as sight words. The Reading Lesson uses a controlled vocabulary of developmentally appropriate words. The vocabulary of the program closely corresponds to the 500 most commonly used words in English. We use many of these words as key words. The Reading Lesson does not follow the alphabet. Instead, we begin by teaching the most common letters in the English language. That way, the child can begin reading words and simple stories from the very first lesson. There are no boring drills. All reading is context oriented. You will hear your child say, "Look, I can read!" after the very first lesson. Happiness is knowing that you are making it possible. The Reading Lesson uses only lower-case letters in the first ten lessons of the course. Often young children do not know the lower-case letters well. Realizing that ninety-five percent of all letters in print are lower-case letters, this is where we start. Upper-case letters are introduced later in the program. For children who know the capital letters of the alphabet, the transition from the lower-case to the upper-case letters is easy. The Reading Lesson uses special typography. The letters are large in the early lessons and get smaller as we progress. The words are spaced far apart, and page clutter is kept to a minimum. We use special symbols to help the child learn the complex and irregular rules of English pronunciation. Children often confuse certain letters, such as b and d. There are special marks to help the child distinguish these two letters. The Reading Lesson is designed for children ages 4 to 8. Since most children in this age group cannot follow if-then rules, or rules such as i before e except after c, we have kept all rules to a bare minimum. Your child will learn these rules in due course as part of the school curriculum. We do not even teach the difference between vowels and consonants. As you will see, your child can learn to read just as well without knowing any of these rules.
DESCRIPTION:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 372
EAN: 9780913063026
ISBN: 0913063029
Label: Mountcastle Company
Manufacturer: Mountcastle Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: 2002-04
Publisher: Mountcastle Company
Studio: Mountcastle Company
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
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Summary: Great book
Comment: We haven't been using it for too long and only do the lessons 2 to 3 times a week, sometimes skipping a week. My daughter is 3 turning 4, she loves it and is learning very fast. She already knew all of her letters and sounds though. If she didn't I wouldn't have started this book. I don't think it would be the best for teaching that. I didn't read the part about pinching your child that other reviewers mentioned. Personally that technique is not for me but I think its kind of silly to put the book down because of it. You don't have to do it. When my daughter gets it wrong I keep my finger under the sound or word, which tells her she needs to think about it. When she gets it right I move onto the next sound or word. If she gets it wrong twice, for example she mixes up sad and sat quite a bit I will point to the end of the word to show her the difference in sound. She begs to keep doing the lessons and I'm really surprised she is learning to read so fast.
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Summary: The Reading Lesson gets HIGHEST MARKS A++
Comment: The Reading Lesson was the AMAZING key to teaching our 5 1/2 year-old son to read the summer before first grade. We did a few pages per day and by the book's end HE WAS A READING MACHINE! We are so proud of him and greatful to the authors for this outstanding book. We used nothing but this book and it worked like magic. Highly recommeded:)
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Great book!
Comment: I ordered this product for my daughter when she was 4 and this is actually an reorder for my son age 3 now. My daughter picked up on all the syllables and sounds when I went over this book with her. It really reinforced things she learned in kindergarten later and helped her to read from the start. Although I think my son is too young to go over 3 pages at a time now but it doesn't hurt to have him look at the book and go over the CD-ROM, so later he may catch on quicker when I go over each lesson in detail. It took my daughter about an year to finish this but I also was not regular with her as I was pregnant with my son at the time. But she remembered all the lessons even though we had to review it a couple of times, as there was too much gap in continuing the Reading Lesson at the time. I recommend a parent to go over the Reading Lesson with their child at their leisurely pace, and create interest in them so that when they are ready they catch on super fast. -Padma Muduli
Customer Rating:
Summary: A wonderful product
Comment: I've been doing this with my 4 year old daughter for about a month now. We are almost on lesson 6 already and she is reading a ton of words. I try to keep it to 15 minutes a day 4-5 times a week, but she begs and begs for more. I also have the writing sheets, so when I finally can convince her to quit reading, she asks to do some of the writing sheets. I am surprised at how easy it is for her to learn. The flow of the lessons is great. The exceptions to the rules like "come", "of" and "gone" are introduced at the right times. This book works and works fast. 5 stars isn't enough.
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Summary: The Reading Lesson :Teach Your Child To Read
Comment: My Child suffers with A.D.D. and mild Aspergers syndrome and this book was picked by the lady who teaches her. It seems to be working wonderfully!
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