Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons | 
 enlarge | Authors: Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner
Publisher: Fireside
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  418 reviews
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
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Pages: 395
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.3 x 1
ISBN: 0671631985
Dewey Decimal Number: 372.41
EAN: 9780671631987
ASIN: 0671631985
Publication Date: June 15, 1986
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* 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 Book June 17, 2008
I found this book to be a very good way to help my son learn to read. It is also an excellent way for a father to bond with his child. Both my son and I enjoyed the time together. One thing the author does not address is that all children learn at different speeds and that you shouldn't get frustrated if they do not learn as fast as the book says they can learn. We started the first time at the age of 4. My son did fine with the sounds, but was not able to do the writing. After about lesson 30 I was seriously frustrated with him on his writing and ultimately I forced him to give up. We put the book away for a year, and one day when he was 5 he brought the book back to me and said "daddy please teach me to read again." We were able to complete all 100 lessons before he turned 6 and I found a different way to teach him to write. My son is now 7 and just finished 1st grade in the top 3 readers of his class.
teach your child to read June 14, 2008
I loved this book. It's a great tool. It tells a little about how children are normally taught to read in school and spells out how to teach them to read step by step. I wish I'd known about this book before my children started school.
BEST for teaching reading! June 5, 2008
I loved teaching to read so much I wrote an essay about the "ah-ha" moment when it "clicked" with my 4-1/2 year-old niece. When you get to experience something like that you can't imagine letting someone else have that opportunity!
I have used this book to teach four different children (all girls). The ages at the start of the program were 2yrs 10 months (finished at 3-1/2), 4-1/2 years, 5-1/2 years and 5-1/2 years. That said, it is important to realize that every child is different. The main thing about the children I taught (individually and not during the same time period), is that they all WANTED to learn. I have recommended this book probably 1,000 times. People were so shocked that my 3-1/2 year old was reading on her own at a 2nd grade level (and comprehending it and even spelling), that I printed the title and authors on a business card to hand out - I really was stopped that often and questioned about my method. That said, please keep in mind that your child is unique, they will have good days and bad days and things may come a little slower for some than for others. After recommending this so many times, the only person I have ever heard to have trouble was a person trying to keep up with my child. It isn't a contest and it should be immensely pleasurable to both the parent and the child. I would sit on the couch and stretch out my arm and the child would come running for a snuggle and a lesson. Of course, you will want to incorporate TONS of praise. The first lesson begins with the sound "ahhh". Act astonished and say things like, "Wow! You just READ all by yourself! Wow! Do you think you can do that again?!" You know, kind of like potty-training. If there is anything that kids eat up, it is love and praise. So, don't be shy, just open your arms and heart and start lesson one!
If your child is tired, sick, cranky or antsy, cut the lesson short or skip it that day or try later. Because my daughter was so young when we started I did not do the written exercises. Manual dexterity comes a little later and you don't want to stress the child out. Mine eventually insisted on trying it anyway, but I didn't worry about it.
Good luck!
Best investment I ever made June 4, 2008
I had already been teaching my son to recognize sounds and had been introducing him to phonics. However, I began to ran into trouble when he questioned why one letter sounded different in two words; I did not know how to explain when to use long vowels, or short vowels.
The first few chapters were used as a review for my son, as he already knew the beginning sounds, but I found the chapters useful. The early chapters were great preparation for me, with regards to understanding the system.
I ran the concept by my mother, who is a retired school teacher and she said she used a similar program to teach her 1st graders to read.
We have had the book for about a month and we are on lesson 34. My goal is to the entire program completed before he heads back to school. He's really taken an interested in reading, sounds out words on signs, on passing buses and is excited about being able to read on his own. I think he's doing remarkably, considering he just turned 4.
Is this book for everyone? Perhaps not, but not every child learns the same way. The system also has to make sense to the parent, otherwise it will probably be a total waste. Like everything else, what works for one may not work for another, but we are having great success and I would recommend it to anyone interested in teaching their child to read.
Excellent! May 15, 2008
I had this book once before for my oldest and then had sold it only to realize I still wanted to use it for my other children.
Excellent condition and showed up at our door in a timely manner.
Very happy!
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