The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons (1) (The Reading Lesson series)

I started this book with my son when he was 3 years 2 months old. After just a month with this book, he is able to sound out and read words and simple stories, and we are only on Lesson 6. So, I am now pretty convinced that young children CAN learn to read as long as they are given the right instruction (this book!). As a special educator who has seen tons of reading programs, costing from hundreds to thousands of dollars, I feel that none of them compare to this $18 book. UPDATE (4/15/16): We have now finished all 20 lessons last week, and I am blown away by how much progress he has made. It took us 4 months to finish, and last night he read me Dr. Seuss' "A Fish Out of Water", which is 68 pages long! Here is what I have learned: It is a great curriculum but it IS hard work for both parent and child. Please do not assume that it will be a breeze. 1. Make sure your child knows letters/sounds, can rhyme, and has a 10 min attention span before you start this book. Otherwise, work on those first. 2. Set a time every day and commit to it 100%. I even took it on vacation with us and he almost never had a day off. K quickly accepted reading lessons as his new routine. 3. The authors recommend 1 page a day for under age 5, but with 400 pages, I realized that this would take me over a year!! (And I don't have patience for that) Because of my work schedule and not getting home till 5pm every day, I eventually settled on 2 pages a day on weekdays, and 2 pages twice a day on weekends and holidays. This enabled us to finish in four months. It usually took us less than 10 minutes to do 2 pages. 4. In retrospect, this pace was rather fast and resulted in him not learning some sounds (especially vowel combinations) as well as he should because we rushed through them. 5. I sometimes took videos of him reading and he absolutely loved to watch himself read. He was so proud of himself, and it was a great confidence booster. Plus I could show it off to friends and family, who told him how good his reading was, another confidence booster. 6. The journey was not always easy or smooth sailing, so mentally prepare yourself for frustration and even tears. K hit his first roadblock around Lesson 4, and he kept saying "I can't do it, it's too hard!" As the authors say, this is perfectly normal and do NOT quit. Persevere!!! 7. Nothing wrong with using a little bribery to get through the difficult pages. For K it was usually in the form of: after you finish you can have a Popsicle, play on the iPad, go to the park, etc. 8. As we neared the end (around Lesson 15) I started telling him he was going to be an awesome reader and would be able to read books by the time we finished the reading lessons. The power of suggestion worked, and sure enough he really did start picking up books and reading them!! 9. Even after we finished all 20 lessons, I continued to have him read aloud at least one book to me every day. There have been some occasions (increasingly more) that I find him in his room reading to himself! These moments have been AMAZING, and made all the time and effort I put in all worthwhile. 10. It has been such an amazing, rewarding journey and I am SO glad I decided to teach him to read myself! He has learned not only to read, but to persevere through challenging tasks. Good luck!

This reading program is very intuitive, well laid out and straightforward. After listening to the podcast Sold and Story and looking into research on the Science of Reading, I decided to try to teach my daughter how to read phonetically BEFORE starting Kindergarten. I checked out the book "Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons" from my local library. While it was very informative, the heavy scripting was overwhelming and the pages looked too busy to appeal to my child. After watching a YouTube review comparing 100 easy lessons to The Reading Lesson, I decided to purchase this book. Great decision! My daughter just turned 5 and we are enjoying this book. She loves coloring the pictures after reading the pages. We also put a sticker on each completed page. I will say that my daughter already knew all 26 basic alphabet letter sounds and how to blend CVC words BEFORE starting this program. I highly recommend that first otherwise, this program may move too fast for your kid and cause frustration. They are reading short sentences by the end of lesson 1! As of this initial review we are on lesson 13, so over half way through. Here are some additional tips that I have so far: Supplement with Bob books for additional reading practice. They are inexpensive on Amazon and can be checked out at most libraries. Get some magnetic letter tiles and a small white board. It will help you get through the pages with no pictures. I write one sentence on the white board at a time so it's not overwhelming for my child to look at. The small white board is also an inexpensive way to have your little one practice their handwriting. Have them copy one or two sentences from the lesson. The magnetic tiles are great for pages with word families. Dictate (sound out) the word and have the child spell it with the magnetic letters. The reading lesson introduces the MOST common letter sounds combinations first, this helps get your kid reading real books faster. After lesson 11, I added in the revised Mcguffey primer for additional reading practice and we were both pleasantly surprised that she could decode most of the words in the Mcguffey primer lessons because of what she had already learned from the reading lesson. As of lesson 13 she can also read Green Eggs and Ham and other easy reader Dr. Suess books. You can find the Mcguffey primer for free online and Dr. Suess books can be checked out at your local library. She was very excited to be able to read REAL books! Reward systems: I printed off the lesson progress chart from their website and out it on ourrefrigerator. My daughter enjoys putting a sticker on the chart after completing each lesson. I also implemented prizes for completing lessons 5, 10 etc. We will likely take a break after lesson 15 and just focus on Bob books and reading real books. This book takes kids to a 2nd grade reading level and my kid just turned 5 so there's no rush.

Well recommended. I teach my celebral palsy child using this book.

A versão impressa é em preto e branco e muito pouco atraente para crianças. As atividades são muito repetitivas. O livro é muito grosso e dificulta o uso para crianças pequenas. Estou tendo dificuldade de usar. Seria melhor uma versão digital que possa ser impressa folha por folha.

Mi hijo tiene solo tres años pero mostraba muchísimo interés por aprender el nombre de las letras y jugaba con los fonemas de manera "autodidacta" por lo que lo compré para ver si le apetecía empezar a leer, y efectivamente página a página, cada día va siemdo capaz de leer. Él está muy orgulloso de sus progresos y yo de acompañarle en su proceso :)

I used this book to teach my 5yo son to read, it helped him a lot. The book is well done, very progressive. The method has worked well with my son who is now (a year later) a passionate reader who can read full story book with passion!

I have 100 easy lesson and alpha phonic book but my son dint read in those books when I introduced this book he started reading 3:letter word but not fast,, I hope he will pick up