Review: “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons!”
Welcome back to my weekly blog post, friends! Today I'm sharing a review on the reading program, “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons!” I used this program with my 4 year old (now 6 year old who is in first grade), and I plan to continue using it with my four younger children. It’s because of this program that my child started reading books before we even finished the 100 lessons! What a joy it’s been to enter our first year of homeschool with a life skill that has already been nurtured, and developed into a love for reading! I hope you enjoy!
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Firstly, this program is so wonderful because truly…anyone can do it! If you can read, and have this book…you already have ALL the tools you’ll need to confidently teach your child to read! As stated in the book’s title, there are 100 EASY lessons. True to the title, the lessons were made so concisely, and became so familiar to my 4 year old that he was continuously engaged and eager to learn each day!
What makes this book unique is it includes a word-for-word SCRIPT in red letters for the parent to recite as they teach their child with NO prep work! Each lesson I opened, I could jump right in as a confident teacher, and in 20 minutes we were DONE!
“Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” contains a detailed pronunciation guide to ensure that you are correctly pronouncing all the sounds that you will be teaching.
The book also includes a sound-writing chart to aide your student in how to write letters as they learn them! Thats right…your child is not only learning how to read with this program, but how to WRITE each letter as well! (We did this by purchasing a marble notebook, and using it for this portion.)
Rather than focusing on letter name identification, this book focuses on teaching letter sound identification which helps the student begin their reading journey MUCH quicker! As the child learns the sound each letter makes, they become guided on how to (first slowly, then quickly) touch each letter and make the sound. This inevitably leads to blending letters together to make words!
The earlier lessons start with letter sound introduction! They also teach how to say the sound fast, and how to write the sounds learned. There’s ample review each lesson to ensure a child never feels left behind. Before you know it, your child is word reading, rhyming, and story reading!
The latter lessons include picture comprehension which keeps the child entertained as they read a story and take part in answering questions! They learn how to read the story “the fast way” which is modeled firstly by the parent. However, and I can’t repeat this enough, since there exists a script for everything…and I mean everything, there’s just simply NO overwhelm!
I paired this program with reading BOB books daily, which are AMAZING for new readers, and help build their confidence and reading skills early on! With these two resources (linked above), we witnessed our child’s interest and ability in reading SOAR! That’s it! My now 6 year old is reading chapter books at a much higher reading level, and more importantly than anything…he’s been giving a life-long LOVE for reading!
I hope you enjoyed this amazing resource for how I taught my child to read! Feel free to share in the comments below if you have tried this program, or maybe a different one that you’d like to share! Happy reading!
