amyc78 Posted July 26, 2014 Share Posted July 26, 2014 Starting kindergarten with my DD5 in a couple of weeks. She knows all her letter sounds and can read CVC words and the beginning BOB books. I just finished Teach Your Child to Read Using Children's Books and like the gentle, organic way of teaching reading presented in this book, however I would like to modify it to add a little more phonics. DS enjoyed Explode the Code books at this age and this would also be a good way to work on both writing and spelling as well, if I remember correctly. My question is, should I just order the student workbooks or is there any value in the teacher's guides? I've seen the online program also but don't know a lot about it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CadenceSophia Posted July 28, 2014 Share Posted July 28, 2014 I don't think the teacher's guides would be useful, but of course I haven't seen them. My 6 year old is doing ETC 1 just to practice independent work, even though his reading level is higher and I have never seen anything that would make me wish I had a teacher's guide. Depending on your DD, be prepared that the writing may be too much. It is for my 6 year old (boy) which is why we are using it the way we are. Certainly you can skip or modify but most the pages ask for quite a bit of writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kmamaral Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 My two daughters finishing book 7 and book 8. We have never used the teacher manuals. There might be a random picture that the child has to spell, so sometimes they might need help figuring it out. We have never had a problem. We look the books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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