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My best friend loves All About Reading. Her son started the program well behind where his older sister was at his age. That's why she bought the program. He finished well above where she had been at the same age.

 

I used I See Sam (first 3 sets) and Progressive Phonics. I was able to print both free online. It worked for my very different kids.

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Do you mean for initial teaching, or for "reading comprehension" after they're reading fluently?

 

For initial teaching we mostly did reading aloud to them, some basic "that says 'zzzz,'" let them play on Starfall, did some Progressive Phonics, and then they jumped ahead to fluency so we stopped.

 

For "reading comprehension" I occasionally stop when I'm reading aloud and check that they understand what I mean.  We also do narration of some passages so they're answering questions on the passage.  But we don't do book studies or any thing like that.

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That's ok!! Thanks everyone! Sounds like a reading comp program isn't necessary? I'll look into these suggestions.

 

I'd say not necessary.

 

I'd also say that during my school years I *HATED* having to read books in school.  They'd give us these cool books, and then they'd completely ruin them by doing "comprehension" stuff with them.  It was seriously the most kill-joy thing they could do.  I understood the book just fine, I didn't need to pick it to death by doing "activities" about it.  ;)

 

So...I might be a bit biased.  LOL

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