Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Book Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in teaching their child to read. It is easy to use and does not require that you possess any special teaching skills. My four year old is reading wonderfully thanks to this outstanding book!Book Review: It Works, but It's Work!
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, I find the method outlined in this book to be quite effective with my four-year-old boy. It is actually working, and for that, I am pleased. We are up to lesson 20 at this point.It really works, but sometimes it is an uphill battle. Unfortunately, the lessons, quite often, bore him at times because none of the reading exercises are intrinsicly interesting (although, the later excercises are better than the earlier ones). He therefore doesn't believe that the lessons are fun, and it becomes difficult to maintain his attention at times. When I don't have his full attention, his lessons are riddled with mistakes and it takes a long time to get through a lesson. However, when I do have his attention, he does great.
I give this book a good rating because I believe the method outlined in the book is excellent, but I feel this book may be better geared to a child a little older than four years old.
In future revisions, I would like to see some more elements in the lessons that capture a younger childs interest. Maybe sound or word games. Perhaps some very short but interesting stories that the parent can read to the child at some point in each lesson. Maybe some more pictures. There are many other things as well. It might even be possible to come up with a seperate program for very young children.
I am sold on the Distar method. Keep up the good work. It gets four stars in my book, which means it is great, but there is still some room for improvement.
Book Review: Amazing results
Summary: 5 Stars
My daughter is four and she is now reading as a result of thisbook! She also started surfing the internet with mom and dad.Book Review: This book short-changes the reading process.
Summary: 1 Stars
This book instructs you to use distorted print and contrived stories to teach your child to read phonetically. According to current research on reading acquisition, this method is not appropriate! Yes, children need to learn phonics. But do not short-change your children by using phonics-only driven text, such as this book recommends. Using phonics alone is like playing a game of baseball with only homerun potential. (Yes, McGuire can hit homeruns...but how valuable would he be to his team if that was all that he could do? Or, how successful would Pete Sampras be if all he could do is hit backhands?) Children need to learn phonics in the context of real reading. Use environmental print (store signs, street signs, labels, etc.) and beautifully illustrated, rhyming, repetitious children's books to expose young children to written language. Through the use of high-interest children's books, children will begin to understand phonics. In addition to phonics, they will begin to understand ALL of the clues used to decode print (sentence meaning, sentence structure, picture clues, parts of words and background knowledge.
If you have questions about appropriate ways to help your children learn to read, ask a teacher, a reading specialist or send yiour questions to me via e-mail. (I work with educators and parents throughout the USA on the topics of parent involvement and family literacy.)
Learning to read goes far beyond phonics, contrived stories and distorted print as this books recommends.
Book Review: GO GET IT!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This book works! We taught our 6 year old to read when she was 4. Now she is in 1st grade and her reading skills are off the charts for a first grader. She has no problem reading the way her teacher is teaching the other students and enjoys helping and reading to her classmates.We are now on lesson 25 with our second child, she is 4 also and progressing well. She had a harder time getting started, but once she realized she could learn to read, each lesson has been easier to complete.
This is the best method of teaching your child how to read. The SRA system of learning has been around for years and has been a poven method of teaching children.
It's also a great way to spend some QUALITY time with your child.