This was our first time using set lessons and I enjoyed having a thought out plan to follow. At first we were doing 2-3 pages a day and Little Tiger found it challenging, but not frustrating. The book recommends only one page a day for her age, but she really enjoyed doing the activities so we did them until she decided she was done. By the end of lesson 1 (which is 19 page) she could read the word a, cat, sat, and at–as well as sound out words. We paired Learning to Read with some beginning reading books we have and she read her first book to me after only completing lesson 1–it was so exciting and she was so proud (as well as myself of course)!
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- Structured for homeschool and classrooms
- Uses phonics and Whole Language methods
- Begins with the most common letters in the English language
- Begins with lowercase letters that are seen more frequently in print
- Concentrates on teaching children to decode so they can begin to read independently
- The book starts out with common letters and has the child work on phonics. Then it takes those letters and starts forming sounds, and then words.
- The lessons come straight out of the book and are totally parent/teacher guided with no hands on activities.
- The book doesn’t always use complete sentences so sometimes she tries to add in words that aren’t there. The book will say “tom mad at cat” and she will try and say “tom is mad at the cat.”
- The book moves rather quickly which requires lots of review of the same material.
- The book uses font with a “funny letter a” as we call it and not a ball and stick a. It’s not a big deal, but just so you are aware.
- I like how it uses common cvc words so that as we are reading other books she is able to spot words she has learned from her Reading Lesson activities.
- The pages in the book are kept black and white and pretty plain so they aren’t distracting. My daughter isn’t always excited to do a page from her lessons, but she is excited when she is done with the activity and has learned a new word. You should see her face, it’s priceless!
