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| Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons | 
 enlarge | Authors: Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
List Price: $22.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  439 reviews
Sales Rank: 572
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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Condition: Softcover copyright 1983, No markings, very clean,slight creased front and back cover with little dogear, inside clean non-library.......10/11
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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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 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?
WONDERFUL!! I'd actually like to call it PERFECT!! September 17, 2008
I used this book 4 years ago with my now 8 year old, and he's always been at least a couple years ahead in his reading level. I am now doing homeschooling with my 5 year old niece, and almost 5 year old son using this book again to teach the reading fundamentals, and they are both "getting it" so easily.
This book truly makes it SO EASY for anyone to teach a child to read--the teaching scripts give you everything (I mean absolutely EVERYTHING) you need to say. And seriously, if your child is ready to learn, this book will help teach them! The funny thing is, my 2 1/2 year old nephew had been interested in learning since everyone else is doing it (the older kids), and after I do the lessons with the older kids, he'll sit down next to me and say "now it's my turn". :) Although we are going at a MUCH slower pace with him (going over a lesson 2-3 separate times), he is getting it as well!
You really can't go wrong with this book.
The Best Return on My Investment in My Child's Future. September 15, 2008
Having a four year old boy who was completely disinterested in learning his letters at day care, let alone learning to read, led me to read up a bit on educating boys. "Boys and Girls Learn Differently", a terrific book on its own, informed me that boys tend to be two years ahead in math and sciences, but two years BEHIND in reading. "Learn Differently" taught me that this disparity often had profound effects upon a boy's education, often resulting in their giving up, thinking they were dumb, and rejecting reading altogether. As an avid reader, and a person who only succeeded because of a love of reading, I wasn't going to allow this to occur to my child. I purchased "100 easy lessons" based upon reviews posted on Amazon, and I can honestly say that it was one of the best investments of my life.
My little lazy reader resisted learning the sounds at first. So I dressed it up in a "treasure hunt." I would write the letters featured in a lesson on a piece of paper, place them around the room and have him "find" the correct sounds to match up to the letter. Then, very quickly, we progressed to treasure hunts for words (I completely admit to bribery - 3 successful hunts resulted in a pack of Pokemon cards, his love at the time). Within a matter of 2 months (and several breaks between consistent lessons), my son learned to read far, far more advanced than most of his class mates. I continued the lessons, and dressed them up in "treasure hunts" on and off over the next 6 months. By this time, he was beyond confident about reading - his reward for his hunts was now the Level 2 and 3 "I can read" books that you can buy at any book store (he never caught on to the irony that his reward for completing his reading was to get a book....)
Flash forward to three years later. My son has just been invited into the "gifted" program at school. That "100 easy lessons" (and the time investment of myself and my husband) were a big reason for this is beyond question. The confidence he gained from being one of the top readers in his class has also led to a "swagger" about his school work. Even better -- his brother, 3 years behind him, just started 1st grade. Desperately yearning to be just like his older brother, he has thrown himself into the reading lessons and "treasure hunts" with a focus I've never seen. On day 7 of first grade, he is at lesson 65 in the book. And he, unlike his older brother, LOVES the lessons, can't wait to show off how well he reads. I have no doubt he too will eventually earn an invitation into the gifted program. And their 2 year old brother can't wait to join them.
In short, if you want to realize the most unbelievable return on your investment in your child's education and future, buy this book.
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