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| Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (based on 441 reviews)
Sales Rank: 438
Category: Book
Authors: Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner
Publisher: Fireside
Studio: Fireside
Manufacturer: Fireside
Label: Fireside
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 395
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0671631985
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.41
EAN: 9780671631987
ASIN: 0671631985
Publication Date: June 15, 1986
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Product Description
* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? * Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms? * Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school? * Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? SRAs DISTAR is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read. Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It's a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here -- no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions -- just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.
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 Still Reaping Benefits Five Years Later October 12, 2008
This was the only book/tool I purchased to teach my daughter to read. We began when she was 2, and she was proficient enough by age three to navigate her own computer. She continued to progress and was reading chapter books by age 4.
The most remarkable thing about being an advanced early reader is that learning becomes a geometric, rather than linear, progression. The more she read, the more she wanted to read, and absorption and retention became nearly second nature. Her reading & comprehension proficiency enabled her to learn every subject at an astonishingly accelerated pace. Whether she was reading about the habitats of certain animals, math word problems, or a story, learning came easily.
My little girl is, from a completely unbiased assessment, extremely bright; she is not a genius. She is now 8, and has remained far above grade level while attending Montessori and Parochial schools.
I cannot recommend this book enough to anyone who wants to provide her children with a life-long advantage. Now for the bad news, it is not really painlessly easy, but most worthwhile things don't come by effortlessly, right?
One serious piece of advice--do EXACTLY as the book instructs, I deviated once and spent weeks rectifying my mistake.Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
 It works October 12, 2008
I'll admit when I first got this book, I looked through it and said no way are we going through this. It looks cluttered and maybe a little confusing. I have a 4 year old and started off on my own to teach letter sounds and sight words (rather haphazardly). With limited time, she just wasn't learning very much. Finally I got the book back out and thought we would give it a try - what could it hurt (only 15 minutes). We are up to Lesson 37.
I have begun to really appreciate the system it uses. There is a lot of repetition in the beginning which she needed. After the first lesson, I didn't read the parental stuff and I don't go as slow as the book suggests on each lesson. My daughter whips right through the sounds and then we struggle with figuring out the words. We do go back over the previous lesson each time we sit down with it again. She has really gained reading skills very quickly and can read and sound out quite a bit. It is encouraging to us both that she can read several sentences herself and she seems quite proud. The order the sounds and words are presented in is wonderful for teaching a child to read something quickly. We don't work in it every night and at times I just put it back up if she doesn't want to work with it. Still, she is learning quite a bit without a lot of effort.
Excellent if you are willing to use it daily for 100 days! October 9, 2008
Using this book helped me teach my son how to read! It does as some critics have said on this site seem a bit goofy approach but it does work. I find it exercises your child's vision to read left and right and it helps with sounding sounds out. I used it everyday skipping only a few days and I feel that it is key to be consistent at progressing through it. I used a sheet of paper and wrote the lesson numbers 1-100 and next to each lesson number we wrote the date and put a sticker of my child's choice next to it each day. And it really gave my son a visual of how far along he was and he liked that he was getting quite a collection of various stickers on his sheet. When he was done the sheet was like a badge of honor of how hard he worked. It still hangs on our wall. Invest in the book as well as your time (15min a day for 100 days)
A good place to start! October 8, 2008
I didn't realize that reading is hard and how much work it takes to learn how to do it until I started teaching. As an adult, I took it for granted and didn't realize how many connections children have to make in order to learn how to read. I am now teaching my oldest daughter to read. I started with this book, but didn't understand its approach. I switched to another book (The ordinary parent's guide to reading) and it packed way too much in a lesson for my little girl. I spent two weeks on 1 lesson and couldn't move on (from the section which begins teaching them to read after learning the letters). So, then I switched back. And then I understood the approach the author is taking. It made a lot more sense for us and it is working.
My daughter learned her letters from the leapfrog letter factory video. This helped set the stage so she was ready to start learning to read. Knowing the sounds of the letters solidly has made using this book a lot easier for her.
It does take us 15-20 minutes each day. She isn't so excited about the words, but she loves the little story she gets to read each day in the lesson. Her excitement is not the book, it's her own personality. She loves to do things that are easy and silly and fun. I know that she also has to learn how to work on something. She's getting better. We go through 5 lessons and then start back at the beginning of those 5 and repeat them again. We are now at lesson 48 and we've been doing it for about 8 months. I share that because I agree with several of the other reviewers. Don't worry about rushing through quickly. It takes every child a different amount of time to really grasp the lessons.
One note...I don't require my daughter to write the way the author recommends. Her fine motor skills are taking longer to develop and so I have simply been doing the reading portions of the lessons.
helped create two super readers October 2, 2008
I just purchased a new copy of this to use with my third child. I used this book with my older two kids and really enjoyed it. I started when they were pretty young--about four, so we went a little slower. Sometimes I would break up a lesson over two or three days. I know a lot of parents worry that if they push their kids to read with formal lessons like this, their kids will consider reading a chore and hate it. That hasn't been the case with my kids. They absolutely love to read, and they are really good at it. Both of my older kids were reading at about a third-grade level when they started kindergarten. It is truly amazing to see their minds open up to the world of books.
Why should teachers have all the fun?
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