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...
Guest Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I just have the student workbook and we did fine. ds has a slight delay in fine motor co-ordination (everybody in my family does) so I skipped the writing pages and just had him point instead. I was kind of "meh" about it, but he absolutely loved it so I got him the next workbook for first grade. I didn't use it with my older kids because money, so I'm not sure how well it will do for spelling yet, but I'm all ears and bumping this hoping that a more experienced parent will chime in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fdrinca Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I've never used the teacher guide. I'm sure it offers instruction, but the reason I use ETC is because it's open-and-go and very child-directed. The kids do it without my help. I would think that if your child can already read CVC words you probably wouldn't need the guide at all. The end-of-book reviews use the teacher guide, but it's very easy to make up sentences or words for those 4 pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amyc78 Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 Should I start with ETC 1? I assume she's past the Before the Code series... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 We used ETC 1 last year and it sounds like your dd is in about the same place my ds was. ETC 2 involves reading whole sentences, so I don't think she's ready for that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caclcoca Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I just finished the Before the Code books with my little guy, and they covered letter sounds only. It sounds like your dd is beyond that stage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erinallport Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 We really like Explode the Code as well! We've done books 1-5 this year. It's open and go and the kids can do a lot of it on their own. It's been great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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