We’ve been using Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Halfway into it, I’m not sure I like it……..
I wanted a reading program with phonics–or more specifically, phonics the way I learned them in school. My problem was that I did not know the name of the phonics program used in my private school. This program doesn’t teach all the letter teams I learned and it teaches some words as sight words. NO! I want to sound them out!
However, I will say it has taught Jaylyn to read simple sentences and to sound many words out. The program has taught her to slowly sound things out. It’s built her confidence and allowed her to read short phonics-based readers all by herself. To her–she’s reading and she loves it! It’s just not quite what I’m looking for.
After lots and lots of internet research I realized that I was taught the Spalding method. Great! So I looked into the book The Writing Road to Reading. Umm, I’m overwhelmed. It’s been a long time since I did the phonics and I don’t feel too confident in myself.
Then I received an email from TOS about a phonics program–The Phonics Road to Spelling and Reading. Wow! This looks comprehensive and it teaches the Spalding method! It’s also much more than just a phonics program. It’s a complete language arts curriculum with literature studies, grammar, spelling, reading, and handwriting.
This may be exactly what I’m looking for. This is the Spalding method, but it’s more user-friendly. It comes with DVD’s to teach you the lessons. It has a manual for the teacher and one for the student. The program focuses on learning the phonograms and the spelling rules. It also prepares the student for Latin study with their Latin Road to English Grammar program–another plus for us since I wanted the kids to study Latin.
I think we may get this program and start teaching Jaylyn the phonograms and then move forward with the program when she seems ready. It may take us well over a year to get through the first level but at least we would be learning the phonograms and the spelling rules. I want to get rid of some of those "sight" words!
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Hi Lexi, thanks for stopping by my blog and even leaving a COMMENT!!
)We used 100 Easy Lessons here too, and although I have taught four avid readers with it, I will say that I think that book is the "fast food" of reading curricula. It is filling and very satisfying, but not very nourishing, if you know what I mean. When they knew they could read, my girls weren't the least bit interested in phonics. Kind of like finishing off chicken nuggets and fries with broccoli, lol. I liked that they were reading with just a few lessons. But today none of them sound words out well. Thanks for this recommendation on the Spalding method. I'll have to check it out. A Beka also has an excellent phonics curriculum.
And, I enjoyed reading your thoughts on 1 Kings 17-19.
)Sally
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I used 100 easy lessons with both of my boys. With my first son it worked really well and I felt like it did the job. With my younger son he went through it so fast that I didn't feel like it was challenging him. I still used it as a jumping board and it did the job. I always used Explode the Code for phonics and as a spelling and writing curriculum. I loved these books because they were simple and consistent. The kids could basically do them on their own, because of the pattern of pages. I even used Beyond the Code, which my younger son loved even more.
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