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Customer Reviews for Peace Hill Press The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Peace Hill Press The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
Take charge of your child's literacy with this easy-to-understand phonics primer! Using a simple scripted format with recommended teaching tools and follow-up activities, the 230 lessons follow a logical progression through vowel and consonant sounds, words, blends, digraphs, spelling, letter patterns, and more. Includes excellent additional information for the teaching parent. Ages 4 and up. 370 pages, softcover.
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Review 1 for The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
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Helped me at 31 years of age!
Date:April 27, 2013
kayd809
Location:Copperas Cove, TX
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I purchased this book after talking with another mom who homeschools her children. I've been considering homeschooling my children this next year and choosing curriculum seemed overwhelming. She used this book to teach all four of her sons to read. I was intimidated by this book, though, because I know how to read and have a BA in English. However, when I went through public school, I never understood or grasped the whole vowel sounds. I don't know what a short vowel is nor a long vowel. So, I was scared. However, I've been looking through this book and am actually learning, at 31, what short and long vowels are and the sounds they make. It's simple and isn't as intimidating as I thought. So, if I can learn something new at 31 then I know this would be good for all children. I've already covered a couple of lessons with my daughter, who is already reading but guesses at new words in books rather than sounding them out. She will be finishing kindergarten this May and has learned the whole "sight" words method. However, her Pre-K teacher actually taught her the sounds of vowels which she recognizes when I go over a lesson with her. My example of why sight words don't always work is the difference between "there" and "three." When she sees the word "three" in a book she always says "there" when I say no, try again, she knows its the other word, "three." So I went over the lesson for words with "ee" to, hopefully, get her to recognize the word "three" when reading and actually understand the reason behind the sounds. I do agree that phonics is best because I teach my daughter that you will always come across new words, in any book you read, and will need to know how to sound them out. Sorry for the long review but, hopefully, it is helpful.
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Review 2 for The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
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The How to Handbook for Teaching Your Child to Rea
Date:January 25, 2013
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Jessie Wise's "The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading" is a "how to handbook" on teaching your child to read.
Jessie's approach to teaching reading is simple: using the systematic method of old fashioned phonics.
The book is divided into three sections: Preface, Introduction: How I Came to the Conclusion That Ordinary Parents Need to Teach Reading, Part 1: The Lessons which consists of 25 sections and 231 lessons in old fashioned phonics. Part 2: Additional Material for the Ordinary Parent: Pre Reading, Managing a Reading Session, Encouraging a Child to be a Reader, Questions and Answers for the Ordinary Parent, Remedial Reading with an Older Child, Index to the Lessons and Key to Phonetic Symbols.
The book accompanied with McGuffey Eclectic Readers (the editions published by Wiley & Sons) when used frequently, patiently and consistently will teach the lifetime skill of reading.
Jessie's approach to teaching reading is simple: using the systematic method of old fashioned phonics.
The book is divided into three sections: Preface, Introduction: How I Came to the Conclusion That Ordinary Parents Need to Teach Reading, Part 1: The Lessons which consists of 25 sections and 231 lessons in old fashioned phonics. Part 2: Additional Material for the Ordinary Parent: Pre Reading, Managing a Reading Session, Encouraging a Child to be a Reader, Questions and Answers for the Ordinary Parent, Remedial Reading with an Older Child, Index to the Lessons and Key to Phonetic Symbols.
The book accompanied with McGuffey Eclectic Readers (the editions published by Wiley & Sons) when used frequently, patiently and consistently will teach the lifetime skill of reading.
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Review 3 for The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
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Well written and easy to go through with my child.
Date:December 26, 2012
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Tried "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons" which only confused my child. So I gave up on that one and bought this book based on another mom's recommendation. These lessons are very simple and to the point. They have made it very easy for me to teach my child to read. I must say, however that the stories they have included to practice the new sounds for each lesson are poorly written and awkward sounding, so I have been supplementing with real books that she can actually enjoy.
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Review 4 for The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
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Great tool for teaching your children to read...
Date:May 5, 2011
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Location:Detroit, MI
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I have used this book to teach my daughter to read and am currently using it again to teach my son. It's great! I have friends that have used 100 Easy Lessons and they've liked this better. I love that it's scripted so that I don't feel like I'm forgetting to teach them something.:) and my daughter reads like a champ! I'm just so impressed with how well both of them are doing and it's so easy!
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Review 5 for The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
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Highly Recommended for all families!
Date:December 15, 2010
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My first exposure to homeschooling was through SisterL and her decision to do so. She's a Catholic Stay-at-home Navy Wife and Mama to six and it fits their life perfectly. My second introduction was not just to homeschooling, but also to a Classical Christian Education through my job as a long term and short notice substitute teacher at a Classical Christian Education School in Georgia. Working there was some of the best months ever as I learned about the methods in teaching a Classical Christian Education and really involving God on all levels of the educational experience as well as using a tried and true method of teaching that works so well. It was through preparation to work there that I found The Well-Trained Mind and in essence Jessie Wise. (More to come on TWTM...)
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading is a perfect place for people to start if they are going to homeschool in a Classical Christian Education method. Better yet OPG is for everyone! If you're using any method of homeschool, or even if you are sending your child to school, you could benefit from the OPG to Teaching Reading. Some children pick up reading skills easily and others may find them a bit later and need more effort to acquire them. Yet once those skills are established the entire world is opened and an adventure of education awaits.
I am absolutely delighted to get my hands on a copy of The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading! True, AppleBlossom is only 16 months old, but I'm not opposed to venturing out and making some decisions on where we might go in the next few years. Already she has a vast vocabulary far more varied that I would have expected both in verbal language and sign language (more to come on the sign language...). When she is ready, because I have equipped myself with the OPG I feel confident of what to do and where to go. After reading TWTM I was ecstatic to discover co-author Jessie Wise had continued on with other materials to aid in the education of children's minds. The OPG is the perfect place to start.
"The complete set, with everything related to the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. Included in [the] combo pack are 1 paperback copy of the OPG, 1 copy of the flashcards, 1 copy of the Audio Companion, and 2 magnetic letter boards (1 set of the board and letters, 1 additional letter storage board). All of this is available at $55, a savings of almost 14%."
When we get a bit closer to time where AppleBlossom is talking more and ready to really learn the alphabet and to read, I definitely plan to invest in the other parts of the OPG kit or pieces like them. Reading through the lessons, I can definitely see where they will come in and be valuable. In addition to lessons that take you through the vowels, consonants and many combining words... there is a great FAQs section that answers so many questions in a clear light. This really is a book that they have made where anyone may be qualified to teach their child to read. (Even an avid reader with poor grammar like myself...)
*Thanks to Kim Norton of Peace Hill Press for providing a copy for review.*
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Date:March 23, 2010
M Stewart
This book is just what I wanted for my preschool-aged daughter. Jessie Wise provides a scripted format for introducing first the short-vowel consonants, then the consonants, and so on. Each lesson is short and features a simple but catchy rhyme to teach the letter sounds. One thing that seems unnecessary in working with a young child is the explanations about voiced and voiceless sounds. Although I have read through this information, I have not tried to introduce it to my daughter. Overall, I would recommend this as an excellent way to start a young child reading before beginning "formal" school.
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