BEST book for teaching your kiddos how to read.

I'm about halfway finished with this book. My son, who is 5, getting ready to start Kindergarten in the Fall has been the source of experimentation with this book.

Okay, so he pretty much hates it.... But, it's working.

This book really shows children how to sound out each letter to form words. I'm really pleased with it. As a parent who was a bit clueless on how to teach my child to read, this has been a huge help.

Like I said, we are halfway through and he is already reading paragraph (stories)

So, I wholeheartedly suggest if you need to teach a child to read that you pick this one up!

The lessons are about 10 minutes each day, you really can't beat that!!!!

5 stars!!!!!

I learned some things from this book on how to teach my kids to read. But I ended up developing my own method. What I do now is more similar to what taught by the Toddlers Can Read youtube channel. But I think for people who just want to get a method and not develop their own this is a good one.

This book worked wonderfully for my daughter who was a struggling and late reader. However, my son who is also a late and struggling reader reached maximum frustration about 75% through when they began to introduce letters instead. The first 3/4 of the book focuses strictly on sounds and this approach is not serving my son who is now frustrated and confused. Now we need to backpedal a bit to cover the basics he should have learned months ago.

I’ve read this through about a hundred times over the course of my life. My mom used it to teach my siblings to read. I taught about half of my children to read with it as well.

This book is amazing! I highly recommend this book to any parent wanting to teach their child to read. It is a phonics based approach that is simply brilliant. I finished all 100 lessons with my four year old about a month ago and it is amazing to sit and listen to him read--he WANTS to read. I love it!

Not bad at all and I 100% agree on the teaching philosophy embedded in this - with persistence and the right method, any child can learn. My only gripe with this book is that it doesn't seem to realize that the lessons it presents are incredibly dry.

I mean, in some ways this does make it easier - all you need is this book and maybe something to write with, and you're good. And my son made some great strides in learning to read as we went through the lessons. But we're not going through all 100 without some sort of interactive practice or similar.

I found this to be an easy and engaging way to teach my 5/6 year old how to read. Just sat down and went through the lessons step by step.

I didn't make him repeat stuff as much as the book said, unless he was having trouble with a particular word. I let him set the learning pace so that he didn't get bored or overly frustrated. Only made it to lesson 70-something where the lessons start to repeat but without the special writing to help you pronounce the words. But he is reading books himself now so there doesn't seem to be much point in going on.

Would definitely recommend this.

This is an absolutely wonderful book! We are a homeschool family. My wife handles most of the lessons, but I teach each child to read when they show interest around 4 or 5 years old. My oldest daughter is 18. She is an avid reader. I started her off on this book when she was five years old. So far I have taught six of my children how to read using this book. I'm about to start on number seven. My youngest son is four years old and has started to show interest. (In case you are wondering, there are eight children all together. My baby girl is almost three months old.) The only problem I have ever had with this book is one unfortunate incident with my oldest daughter. For some unknown reason there is a lesson that has the words "fun" and "luck" right close together. Well, my innocent daughter confused those words and uttered something I never hope to hear out of her lips. I simply corrected her and said, "no, the word is 'luck.'" She's the only one of six so far that's done that. The only other logistical thing I wish they would change is that there are cartoon pictures that you show the child only after reading the story. You are supposed to cover these with a piece of paper or something and only show the child after they read the story. Often times, it is difficult to keep the picture covered. I think for this next child I'm going to go through and tape pieces of paper over the pictures when I can lift if up like a flap. That should make it easier to use. If the publisher would just make a point to put the picture on the next page after the story that would be a better solution.

A helpful tool for teaching children to read. Not the be all and end all, but a method that works for us. Some lessons were too long and had to be divided up. For students that excelled in writing, I 'batched' the writing work (about 3ish days worth) at the end of a lesson. I also found my students were encouraged by Bob books along the way. We have used successfully with both English language speakers and English language readers.

From here, we moved to Spell to Write and Read for some (which we liked better) and All About Spelling (which we thought was a little too belabored/ complicated). I've heard good things about All About Reading, but it came out after we were through, and I liked how Spell to Write and Read combined the two subjects.

Recommended.

Spell to Write and Read, Sanseri, 2001
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Really good and effective book for teaching kids to read in 100 lessons. I think introducing around 5 years old is the sweet spot

WE DID IT! I'm not going to lie, sometimes it was a slog to get through, but we managed, and my kid has a solid understanding of phonics. When I took him to his kindergarten testing his teacher said that this is the book she used to teach all four of her children. She also has used it to supplement her teaching in various classrooms.