Comments on: Book Review: The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading

By: Sara Dennis

Sara Dennis — Sun, 27 Dec 2015 15:52:03 +0000

In reply to Kim. Those look handy for teaching children to read. Thanks!

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 25 Dec 2015 06:11:29 +0000

I currently have 2 kids going through OPGTR.

By: Sara Dennis

Sara Dennis — Fri, 03 Jul 2015 14:32:42 +0000

In reply to dawn. It's an awesome book for teaching children to read. I love the systematic approach to phonics. :-)

By: dawn

dawn — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 17:50:25 +0000

I taught all three of my children to read using this book and just love it. We started with lesson 28, though as they already knew their letters/sounds. I often used alternative practice items (magnet letters, rewrote on a white board, retyped the child portion, etc) so they wouldn’t be distracted by the teacher script. Once they got to around lesson 70 or so they didn’t mind so much.

By: Sara Dennis

Sara Dennis — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:59:50 +0000

In reply to Amy. There are many great options for teaching children to read! I've heard good things about the All About Reading/Spelling curriculum but haven't looked into it yet. :-)

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 17 Jun 2014 02:05:26 +0000

I taught my son to read using the methods in the Writing Road to Reading (introducing the phonograms and then the rules). He is a fantastic reader. With my daughter, I found that I just didn’t have the time or mental energy to make up my own lessons anymore. I was using the Reading Lesson, but found that after a ways into the book I had to explain rules that it just ignored. I found that I really like the All About Reading/Spelling curriculum because it is scripted and teaches the same phonograms and rules as the Writing Road to Reading (as far as I can see). We are only using their spelling book right now, but if I need something more I think I would get the reading curriculum for her too. Anyways, thanks for sharing another good option!

By: Tina at Mommynificent

Tina at Mommynificent — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:06:14 +0000

This review is really helpful. I’ve recently started teaching English phonics at a Malay/English bilingual kindergarten so I’ve been looking at phonics curricula until I’m cross-eyed. This one looks good, but my problem continues to be that most, if not all, phonics programs teach kids to decode words they already know the meaning of. It is challenging when you need to be giving meaning and decoding at the same time. Nonetheless, I found this to be a helpful review! Thanks so much for sharing this at Booknificent Thursday! Hope to see you again soon!
Tina

By: Lisa Nelson

Lisa Nelson — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 12:11:53 +0000

What a great resource.

You know, my family always did well with easy. With my son, we used Explode the Code. I know it’s not classical in nature, but it’s so easy to love. It’s uncomplicated. The pictures are big and fun. They are not in color – which I liked. It wasn’t wasteful. It made it very easy to learn.

I moved to Abeka with my daughter because of the cursive component. Abeka works well, but i have simplified it greatly. Really, we didn’t need all the crap and accessories, you know. It has colored pictures and is very wasteful in terms of paper, but our simplified version works.

Simple is best. Simple to understand simple to teach.

Thanks so much for linking up with us on the #homeschoollinkup!

By: Jill

Jill — Sun, 16 Mar 2014 01:47:59 +0000

This book sounds like a great resource!
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