Teach your child to read in 60 days

[brasilmom]

Greetings,

 

I am reading the book mentioned above and really like the idea and the method. However I would like to ask the board if anyone has used the method and how it worked in real life situation. My dd is only 3 1/2 but she is way interested in learning to read.

 

So, can you tell me what worked for you?

What was the biggest mistake?

Would you do it again?

How much time did you spend in each section?

Did your child/children enjoy it?

 

I think there is another one to teach the child in 12 lessons or something, but I have not read that one yet. Anyone can give me feedback on that too?

 

Thanks. Be well

 

Miriam

[texascamps]

Phonics Pathways..... taught all of my kids how to read in less than 60 days.

[battlemaiden]

We've done Teach Your Child in 100 Lessons-

 

I have used it successfully on three children and I'm using it on number 4 child. Cheap, easy, scripted...

 

Jo

[5Youngs]

We are on lesson 99 in Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons.

It is $20, easy and works!

You can do as many lessons as your child wants each day, or redo a lesson if they need to.

It's wonderful.

Never heard of the one that you mentioned.....

[newlifemom]

Wow, these books are promising a lot for a fewer and fewer days. Pretty soon it will be teach your child to read in 1/2 days. Of course no one wants to read a book that says "Teach Your Child To Read In 4,328 Days" now do they. :tongue_smilie:

[sunshine]

I swear by The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading by Jessie Wise Bauer. The lessons are perfect length for short attentionand young learners but have optional reinforcement lessons at the end of each lesson for avid learners. It starts with letter recognition and vowels then consonants, short vowel words w/ sight words and goes on to complex phonetics. I use it for 2 years. 1st yr to learn to read fluently and second for in depth phonics.

[brasilmom]

Wow, these books are promising a lot for a fewer and fewer days. Pretty soon it will be teach your child to read in 1/2 days. Of course no one wants to read a book that says "Teach Your Child To Read In 4,328 Days" now do they. :tongue_smilie:

 

That's is just the truth. :lol: I actually am not looking for a quick fix, which I honestly think it is impossible to get your child to do something that fast without getting a burn out.

 

The book I mentioned has his notes from his experience and then gives you loose guidelines to do the program with your child. Now, my plan is first introduce Portuguese for my child and I am considering looking into several programs so I can adapt to my needs. The 60 days program has some fun ideas, however I am looking into other ideas too so I can make a fun process for my dd. She turned 3 in August and knew the alphabet then. In Portuguese language the letters maintain their sounds while combined with other letters, so it is much easier. At this point I am ready to introduce to simple syllables and then 2 syllables words.

 

So, I appreciate everyone's input and will check on the mentioned options. I am sure that there will be ideas that I can incorporate despite the language.

 

Thanks again. Be well

 

Miriam

[IsabelC]

Probably the 20 lesson one just has longer lessons than the 100 lesson one. Or it doesn't teach as far. After all, how do you define being able to read? Average adult level? College level? Newspaper level? (I don't know about the US, but in Australia, newspapers are apparently written to be read at grade 4 level!)

[Pamela H in Texas]

Like Hotdrink says, what is the expectation at the end? I was looking at two programs and the ending reading level was significantly different. I think I'd rather compare phonics programs by the ending reading level than the number of lessons it takes to get there (though 4 years is ridiculous for the average child--I use ungraded materials for this reason).

 

Has anyone ever figured out at what level each program ends?

[Moni]

Never heard of it, but I get my kids up and reading right away, before they know their ABC's, before their know the alphabet, before they even know what an alphabet is, etc.

I don't teach all the letters, just several of them, just the phonetic sound (not letter names), and then right into combining them into cvc words.

They are up and reading right away.

And while they are reading daily, I'll teach a few more letters and combine for more cvc words, and so on and so forth.

Maybe the 12 lessons is similar?

Is that 12 days or 12 lessons :lol:

 

:seeya:

[kmacnchs]

I swear by The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading by Jessie Wise Bauer. The lessons are perfect length for short attentionand young learners but have optional reinforcement lessons at the end of each lesson for avid learners. It starts with letter recognition and vowels then consonants, short vowel words w/ sight words and goes on to complex phonetics. I use it for 2 years. 1st yr to learn to read fluently and second for in depth phonics.

:iagree:

[Dobela]

Whatever method you use, remember that some steps to learning to read come with brain development. You might not reach some steps until the brain grows some so expect to set aside any program you purchase when your very young child stalls or loses interest.