Wonderful Book

I am now teaching my 2nd child (just turned 4) to read with this book. She loves it and wants to do 2-3 lessons every day.

My oldest child learned to ready about 3 months ago with this book and is ready at 1st to 2nd grade level books if not higher.

Yes the stories are really corny and so are some of the words, but I guess it works and I highly recommend this book.

Every child needs this book

We used 100 easy lessons as a tutoring program for at-risk 1st graders and it worked like a charm. I trained high school students and volunteers in the program delivery and they would use the book 1-on-1 with the first graders. The 1st graders loved their individual tutoring 3xs a week and when we measured their gains after 3 months we were amazed at their growth. Not only did we see huge improvements in phonological awareness in the 1st graders, we also saw even great gains in the decoding and PA gains of the 9th graders who were the tutors. At the end of the session we showed the gains that the community volunteers and the high school students obtained and it was amazing. They were so competitive with each other. I keep about 50 copies on hand, so I can give them out to parents in the community who want to help their child.

Chris Jones
Longwood University

Great Book! One suggestion

This book is wonderful! My son who is 5 years old is halfway through in three weeks. Yes, three weeks! In the beginning he could not read any words except for the words Yellow and Red - and his name:)

One suggestion that I would HIGHLY recommend is that you start out making sure that when your child sounds out the letters such as "L" to not sound it out like "La" or the letter "D" as "Duh". My son had a hard time in the beginning reading Old because he would say O la dah. Also, what I did that REALLY helped was tell my child to sound out EACH letter slowly and listen to what he just said and then say it FAST. (slow - fast method works VERY well IF you tell the child to listen to himself and then say it fast WITHOUT trying to guess what it says). Many times they do not know the word or never heard of it so...naturally, it confuses them:)

Occassionally, if I felt that it was getting harder for him, I would go backwards without him knowing. This way he would not get frustrated and lose his interest in reading. Homeschooling with this book has been a real blessing!