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Customer Reviews for Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
In only twenty-to-thirty minutes a day, you can have your preschoolers and non-reading elementary-aged children at a second-grade reading level within 100 days. A complete, step-by-step program, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons includes everything parents need; using the DISTAR method, lessons follow a sensible, simple plan that doesn't require complicated planning or difficult add-on activities. Building from simple exercises that cover sound identification, decoding words and sentences, irregulars, and more, lessons slowly build to more challenging tasks; vocabulary, examples, and the teacher's aspect of the lesson are carefully controlled to help children comfortably progress to a fluent level. Lessons are fully scripted with teacher instruction integrated into the examples and demonstrations. 395 pages, softcover.
This program can be used for bright 3-year olds, on-track 4 and 5 year olds, and non-reading elementary students, but is not recommended for struggling readers who make mistakes.
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Customer Reviews for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Review 1 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:March 19, 2013
melinda
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This book is a good book. I recommend that you read the Indroduction first! It can be a hard book to get into but I think it is well worth the effort!
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Review 2 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Effective, a bit non-traditional.
Date:November 23, 2012
Teresa A
Location:Montana
Age:25-34
Gender:female
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When I talk to other friends on how they taught their kids to read, it is much different than the Distar method. However, I started this when my son was 5, and he is doing wonderfully. Had I started it any earlier, he would have been too frustrated to get through it. My daughter is doing this at 4, and we are taking it slowly, but she is absorbing it very quickly. There are other methods, but this is working for us.
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Review 3 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Great teaching tool
Date:October 19, 2012
pianomom
Location:Aurora, IL
Age:25-34
Gender:female
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My daughter struggled with blending letter sounds during kindergarten and someone recommended I try this method with her. It worked wonderfully! Over the summer we made it through most of the book and are now finishing it up during the school year. This approach really made sense to my daughter.
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Review 4 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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This product is very good.
Date:September 19, 2012
Angels
Location:Escondido
Age:35-44
Gender:female
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I like this page,because evrything about gospel,and faith.
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Review 5 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Amazing
Date:May 17, 2012
corky
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I was very concerned, being a first-time homeschooler, that I would be able to teach my child to read. After much searching and frustration, I decided to give this book a try. We are a little over half-way through they book and my son is already reading Green Eggs and Ham. It is so easy for the parent and for the child. It goes slowly, which is it great for young readers. After starting this book I found out how many other people use it and love it. I recommend to everyone!
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Review 6 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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This product is easy to use
Date:April 2, 2012
Amber
Location:QLD Australia
Age:35-44
Gender:female
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Overall we are very happy with this book. My child (a reluctant reader) has really taken off with reading since using this. My child actually looks forward to doing this each day. Simple stories, with a picture and picture comprehension, make it very easy to use. Also very parent friendly.
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Review 7 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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A different opinion
Date:March 12, 2012
homeschool Mom
Location:medford, oregon
All opinions here are great, but there is another view on this. My dd hated it! She absolutely hated it! She begged me to teach her to read since she was 3 yrs old! I started her at almost 4yrs. and she was nothing but frustrated. Thinking she was just too young, I tried again at 5 yrs. - same thing. We both hated this method. She learned on a different method and was reading at the 9th grade level when she was 8 yrs old. THIS is NOT for everyone, and there are certainly more engaging reading programs out there!
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Review 8 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Excellent Homeschool Resource
Date:November 16, 2011
Boondockma
Location:Oregon
Age:45-54
Gender:female
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After my sister taught her three children to read utilizing this book, she passed it on to me. My two children and I enjoyed it so much that when I learned a friend at Church was planning to homeschool her Granddaughter, I knew I had to share it with her. Unfortunately, my copy was a bit too well used, so I went in search of a copy to give her. Christian Book had it for the right price. Thank You for carrying a great product for a good price.
I highly recommend this book for anyone planning to teach their children to read.
I highly recommend this book for anyone planning to teach their children to read.
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Review 9 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Easy and affordable
Date:August 15, 2011
homemakingmomma
Location:In the desert yes near water, AZ
Age:25-34
Gender:female
This has been such a great tool! My daughter and I are loving this and are learning how to teach/read READING! It's also more effective than phonics and more affordable. :)
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Date:April 21, 2011
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I used this with both of my kids and have recommended it to all my friends and family. I love, love, love this book. In my opinion, it's the best reading program on the market. It's very simple progam, at a very low cost, that provides unbelievable results.
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Review 11 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Easy to use and very effective!
Date:February 1, 2011
Sarah Rivera
Age:35-44
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I am using this with my youngest child. It is very simple but effective. We are on lesson 37. My child is easily sounding out words and reading sentences. He has enjoyed this progam so there is no complining over the lessons. I would recomend this to anyone begining a reading program. I was told that it doesn't work with all children but I m only using it for one.
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Review 12 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:September 14, 2010
Heather C.
This book is wonderful. It came highly recommended from some of my friends. My five-year old is doing great at it, he takes it very seriously. I am really glad I purchased it!!
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Date:April 8, 2010
Meg
We have thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is great for helping me learn the foundations of teaching reading and where to begin. I love that "stories" are introduced very quickly and my son felt like he was "reading" early on in the lessons. Once I found a rhythm and learned how my son was learning, I was able to diverge from the script and have fun with the lessons. I moved to writing the stories on the whiteboard early so as to reinforce proper sentence structure (eg: capitals and punctuation) versus just reading the words. This is definitely a helpful and very useful tool for basic reading instruction. If you choose not to follow the lesson structure to the "T" it will still work! (And yes, reading and referring back to the directions will quickly answer most questions you develop along the way.)
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Date:March 22, 2010
Donna zu Hone
As a new homeschooling mom of two older boys pulled out of public school with great difficulty with reading, I was very nervous about teaching my younger children to read. I even considered sending them to Kindergarten and then pulling them into homeschool once they learned to read. We are 30 lessons into this book with my 5 year old daugher. She struggled with the rhyming in the beginning and I worried and wondered if it was just too soon, but we kept with it and then it just clicked. Now when we hit something new, I just go with it and repeat a lesson if necessary, knowing that it will click eventually. She loves her reading lessons and reminds me that we need to do it if it is a particulary busy day and we forgot. I'm excited to see how it ends up, and where we will go from here. I'm looking at curriculum for next year and not sure what kind of reading materials will be needed following this book, but I do highly recommend it thus far.
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Date:February 25, 2010
Mom of 4
My 3 year old already knew all her letters and letter sounds. One day she asked for me to teach her how to read like her older sisters. She gets excited each time I use 100 easy lessons with her. She says it is so much fun.
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Review 16 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:October 8, 2009
Lisa Bodder
I started this book with my nearly 5 year old. I was very thankful for the forward at the beginning - which is a must-read for every parent so you understand where the book is coming from. Everything went well until we got to the "rhyming" sections. My son stalled. "I can't do this!" he would cry. I realized that he was already learning true rhyming and sound blending was not it in his mind, so it was too hard for him to do. My sister-in-law suggested changing the wording in the script to "word friends" or something less intimidating (and he loves watching PBS's Word World). I decided on "sound friends." At first he was very leary to try again, but once he realized we weren't "rhyming" anymore, he is doing great and loving it! It is so cool to see him catch on and start reading. So on making this one change with the book, I would highly recommend it.
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Review 17 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:August 4, 2009
Marilyn Cheatham
My son, after finishing kindergarten, was still unable to recognize letters and sounds. After using "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons", he was reading in 3 months. I highly recommend this text.
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Review 18 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:June 5, 2009
Joan Jackson
My goal is to have my 4 year old reading before she is five. She is catching on really well to this and looks forward to her reading lesson.
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Review 19 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:February 16, 2009
homeschoolmom
I have taught two of my three children to read with this book (and the third will be starting in a couple of years). It is not flashy or exciting, but it is easily manageable and gets the job done. Both of my boys have been stellar readers after finishing this book, one at the age of FOUR and the other at the age of six. We had no problem moving from this book into I Can Read It type books, and just used the list suggested by the SonLight curriculum company for the last part of their first grade program.
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Review 20 for Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Date:February 3, 2009
Stacey
In general, this book has been great at teaching my 4-year old daughter to read. The book claims that the child will achieve a 2nd grade reading level by the end, but I think this is only true for decoding skills. Advanced phonics sounds are introduced quickly, but comprehension and fluency are not at a second grade level by the end of this text. This has made it difficult to decide what curriculum to use next! Most of the stories are pretty silly, which my daughter likes. Sometimes the characters do mean or bad things, so we have to follow up with a discussion about moral behavior. Some of the stories require higher-level thinking by using sarcasm or emotions that are not evident in the text. There are not many pictures, and the child is not supposed to look at the picture until after reading the story twice. This was frustrating for my daughter.Occasionally, there are errors in grammar in the reading passages, like using conjunctions at the beginning of sentences.
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