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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Price:$10.75
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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. |
Customers Reviews
2008-12-26
Neglects Basic Rules
This book came highly recommended and so we got it for our 3 year old girl. We are 2/3 of the way through it and she's reading quite well when she's motivated(When the grandparents are over!). The book does well introducing new sounds. Overall the book has done really well but it neglects teaching rules of grammar. For instance, it introduces the word "said" and has them sound it out, but then tells them you just say it differently without explaining why. This can be confusing as they have the child sound everything out. Also, it doesn't teach when and why to use long vowels compared to short vowel sounds as in the word "like". It just makes the e smaller so that they don't pronounce it. For quick learning to read, this book is definitely helpful and concise, but the verdict is out as to whether we will have to reteach many basics that are not covered.
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2008-12-18
Worked well for one child, not the other
MY EXPERIENCE
After using this method on one of my children I was singing its praises. My son and I got to about lesson 50 and he was off on his own. We used the remaining lessons as practice. So, I pulled it out with my daughter...3 different times. The first two she wasn't ready. The third time she was. However, she never "took off on her own" and relied exclusively on the book's instructions throughout. (See below for the problem we had with that.) We worked to about lesson 70, and then switched to another method, another phonics based program, and she has accelerated at a greater rate since that switch.
MY LIKES
The lessons are short, taking 5-10 minutes in the beginning, and 15-20 by the end. (We skipped the writing component of each lesson entirely.) Sometimes we would split the latter lessons into two since 20 minutes seemed to be a bit long for intense concentration for my kids. I love that with every lesson comprehension is checked. I knew they comprehended their reading. This book operates on sounding words out, and taught proper technique in doing so - in fact the beginning lessons are devoted almost completely to developing this technique. This has been an invaluable tool for my kids. I also personally liked that the lessons were scripted. That was very helpful to me.
MY DISLIKES
This book is replete with editing errors! Not misspellings, but markings primarily. I would say a good 50% of lessons have at least 1 edit error to some degree or another. Also, while sounding out words is a worthwhile technique, this method does not distinguish phonemes to the degree I personally wanted, which created difficulty for us in sounding out. For example, for `ow', the book has them sound out the letters separately (`o'-`w') as opposed to teaching `ow' together, which has a different sound. To be fair, this book does teach some phoneme combinations (e.g. `sh', `ch', `er'). I just wished for more.
IN SUMMARY
This is an inexpensive and fast method that many have had great success with. I recommend at least a try with this method, but followed up with a supplemental phonics program for a solid foundation. (Keep in mind, with this recommendation that I am a phonics advocate.) My last recommendation is to be willing to skip the writing component of each lesson if need be. In my experience, my kids were ready to start reading before they had the fine motor skills necessary to write.
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2008-12-16
Mom of 4 year old
When my son started asking what letter does this word or that word start with all day we decided he really just wanted to learn to read, so I found this book. I am now teaching my[...]to read (and write). The thing I didn't expect was that my [...] daughter would start sounding out letters and words in the grocery store!!!
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2008-12-08
Enjoyed this . .
I taught my granddaughter to read when she was 4 using this book. I found that while she was enjoying the reading, she was Not Ready at ALL for the writing, that totally frustrated her. Frustration is Not what you're going for, so we skipped the writing and just read and it was wonderful. One of my favorite memories is from when she was in kindergarten and I took her back to her preschool to have her read a story to the preschool class.
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2008-12-03
A Great Teaching Tool
I used this book with my daughter the summer before she entered first grade. We had been assigned to Germany for the past three years and she had spent the last two years in German kindergarten. Unfortunately, they did not teach reading readiness at the kindergarten and focused only on activities and arts and crafts. Desperate to get her up to speed before school started, I used this book with her every day of that summer right up to the week when she started first grade. To my surprise, her first grade teacher soon asked for our permission to use our daughter as an example of advanced reading performance for her graduate school work.
I would say that this book delivers well on its goal of teaching young children to read. The lessons were well sequenced and appropriately timed for our young six-year old's interest span. Perhaps the lessons and the book itself could have been better presented graphically instead of the plain black and white pages, needless to say it would have kept her attention a bit better, but that for me would be the only drawback of this program. It is a wonderful teaching tool to use in conjunction with other brightly designed and imaginative materials for teaching little children to read.
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What Everybody Should Know About Secondary Education Problems Public poll, held in 2005 showed that 85% Americans consider educational problem the most important and current one.
The inquiries disclosed that more educated people live in the capital of the country if take in account the whole population. Among the most “smart’ states is also Massachusetts and Colorado and the most illiterate people live in West Virginia and Arkansas. As a rule the income of the person directly depends on his education quality.
Major Problems in Public Education
Unfortunately the quality of secondary education still leaves much to be desired. Only in 20 of the 50 US states pupils are obliged to take special examinations to receive a degree. 20 years ago all Americans got high school degrees without such exams. Year–by-year the number of the states which implement final examinations is increasing. According to Center for Education Policy estimations many upperclassmen can not pass the examinations. About 70% can not pass their maths exam and about 40% - their English.
No other country but America spends such money (either state or personal) on education. Still according to the Organization for the Economic and Development report such expenses do not influence the quality of education itself for Americans pupils fall behind their foreign peers. Moreover for some indexes Americans loose in comparison with Europeans.
In 2000 The USA government spent more that $10.2 thousand on every petty. In other developing countries this sum does not exceed $6 thousands. The USA has become the second “generous” country to spend about 7% of GDP on public education financing. Since Bush became President the expenses on educational development and improvement has considerably grown. But they did not bring about any positive impact for pupils succeeding.
One of the greatest problems in American schools and educational establishments is the high violence level. Since 1996 there were at least 27 incidents connected with heaters usage in which about 46 students and teachers died. National Center for Education Statistics has shown that in 2001 teens of 12-18 have become victims of about 2 million crimes in USA schools. 62% of all the crimes comprise robberies. From July 1999 to June 2000 there were 24 murders and 8 suicide cases. Somehow 71% of all the American public schools faced any kinds of crimes.
The most efficient practice to fight against violence, alcohol and drugs addiction seems to be summary punishments. In each state special programs of troublesome teens reclamation exist. For example in Georgia in detention centers studies are held in small groups by specially trained teachers. These pupils are taught to study in strict discipline and under the poorest conditions, intensive physical trainings are also included. |
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