OPGTTR "2 review and 1 new" question

[athena1277]

When dd was in K doing OPGTTR, I would do one review lesson, about 10 lessons back plus one new one each day. She caught on quickly and did very well.

 

Ds is now in K and struggles with reading (I have posted about his struggles before). We are half way through our school year and just this week started the section on blends. I know he will not finish this book until sometime well into 1st grade and I'm ok with that. However, one lesson a day is about all he can handle. On the longer lessons, I often have to do split them into 2 days. Now that we are on blends, how can I do even 1 review and 1 new? There is no way he will read for me that long. I thought about doing review one day and new the next, but that will take us forever to finish the book. Maybe later he will be able to handle more in one day, but for the foreseeable future, that won't happen.

 

Any ideas or suggestions?

[BrookValley.]

My DS is also 5, and while reading seems to come easy, he doesn't yet have the patience to read long strings of text. So, when we review, we do not review a whole lesson--I simply do a few words on the white board from the review lesson. If I'm confident he's comfortable with the review concept, I just move on. If I think we need it, we'll spend our time on that lesson and actually do more of the lesson, but usually we are able review two lessons quickly this way and then move on to the new. And honestly, we don't read all the sentences in the lessons, anyway. My son hates the OPGTR book, so we read a few sentences that I copy on the white board and call it done. If we need more review with a particular concept, we spend a little more time reviewing it during review time the following day, but we do most of our actual reading practice with early readers or whatnot.

[macmacmoo]

Is there any where you can do an informal review with him?

Make a game out of it with magnetic letters and cookie sheet or with the bath letters at bath time.

[sarahj]

My DS is also 5, and while reading seems to come easy, he doesn't yet have the patience to read long strings of text. So, when we review, we do not review a whole lesson--I simply do a few words on the white board from the review lesson.

 

 

This is what I do with my DD5 for review, just a few words from the previous lesson and a few more from an earlier lesson that she needs to review.

[freesia]

I wouldn't worry about when you will finish the book. It is likely at some point he will start to really catch on and will move more quickly. I would do what some other have suggested--review a few words so he remembers the previous concept. Then do the new lesson. If it seems he doesn't remember the previous lesson, continue working through that lesson and put the new lesson on hold until another time. Doesn't OPGTLR reach a grade 3 or 4 level? There's no hurry.

[theYoungerMrsWarde]

At that stage & age we did all the words on the whiteboard. I liked doing them in different colors, and I would let ds write the "new" part of the word that we were learning. So "stop" was stop for a few lessons, then it became a whole color word that reviewed as we moved on to new words.

[JenC3]

We are still using the book. Ds is reading VP's first favorites and is reading at the 1st/2nd grade level. I was under the impression this was a two yr book.

[ErinE]

I do the same as BrookValley.

 

On a white board, I do a quick summary: ai can make the A sound. Now read these words: pain, rain, stain, drain.

 

Now that DD is towards the end of OPGTR, I listen to her while she's reading and pick the words with which she struggles as review.

[theYoungerMrsWarde]

We are still using the book. Ds is reading VP's first favorites and is reading at the 1st/2nd grade level. I was under the impression this was a two yr book.

 

I thought it was a four year book!

[ElizabethB]

You can try a fun short review with my phonics concentration game.

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Phonics/concentrationgam.html

 

Also, spelling a few review words with magnetic letters or on the white board.

 

You can only do what you can do. We are reviewing 1st grade phonics this year, alternating between a variety of resources I own and Webster's Speller. My daughter could read practically anything by this point, my son needs more practice. He needs less practice than her at math, though.

[Aspasia]

Like pp, we just review a few words from the two review lessons. My dd doesn't have the stamina to essentially do three reading lessons.

[alpidarkomama]

I'm on kids #2 and #3 doing OPGTR, and I've just never done more than 1 lesson/day. No review ever. They're doing fine. At 5 I'd not go into overtime. It's just too much. Do what he can handle, then pick up where you left off the next day. If he doesn't finish OPGTR until 2nd+ grade, it really just doesn't matter at all. It finishes at a 4th-grade reading level anyway.