Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons Review With 3 Kids

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In this video, I'll review Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons after using it with 3 of my kids. Since I have nothing else to compare it to, I can't say how it is different from other reading programs, but I can show you what I like and don't like about it.
This phonics based program teaches kids each sound (so they don't need to know letter names to use this). They'll learn to blend sounds, and it's unique approach uses symbols to show kids if it's a long sound or a short sound...and shrinks letters that they haven't learned yet.
We have had a tricky time with the long lessons, so I cut them in half once the stories grow and that helps a lot. It takes us usually around a full year to finish.
Going from this book to library books has been a bit tricky, as there are sounds they don't seem to know how to sound out, so we continue reading practice on the couch even after finishing Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons.
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@clevewatson9175 3 ай бұрын

We used this book for all four of our children. All four (adults now) are excellent readers who love books and were always years ahead of their peers both in reading and writing skills. It was an immense boost once they got to college.

@LizBlueandHazel 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@mandyrizzo8398 4 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for your review. We are on lesson 10 and indeed, learning to combine the sounds is tough! It is crazy to me that a lot of schools don't teach reading phonetically anymore. My daughter loves books so I hope the goal to read them herself will keep her motivated.

@LizBlueandHazel 4 ай бұрын

How exciting. They do a good job of getting kids to read a short sentence early on with the few sounds they’ve learned, and I love that! My 3rd kiddo just finished this and is now going through Dash books and Little Bear. We took a loooong time to do this book but that’s ok! It’s not a race, right?! Have fun with it.

@WildHorseProductions 3 ай бұрын

Great video. I saw this recommended by someone and glad to see what's INSIDE the book. I am going to try it with my toddler who's close to 4 now and already knows the ABC and a few words.

@LizBlueandHazel 3 ай бұрын

Glad it helped! No harm in trying it out early if they seem interested and it’s always fine to pause and come back in a few months if needed. It’s so fun to get them reading!

@WildHorseProductions 3 ай бұрын

@@LizBlueandHazel thanks for the encouragement. And you made some good points, it's not over expensive so I will give it a go. Worse case I keep it on the shelf for a year more

@kaitlynlewis6958 4 ай бұрын

My 5 year old did the choppy sounding out too but so much better now. We are on lesson 60 . When we hit lesson 50 we split lessons into two days . We dont read story twice only once and ask the comprehensive questions. I really do like it ! We use this and bob books . Will definitely use with each kid!

@LizBlueandHazel 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing your experience! It’s encouraging to see kids learn to read and to see how parents adapt it when needed. We just finished with my son recently and are now practicing with Little Bear! One thing that really sped his stories up (and we hadn’t done this with the other 2 kids) was to make flash cards for some common sounds and sight words he was having a hard time remembering. Like “the”, “ar” “with”, “you”, “ea”, “th” and a few more. It helped a lot!

@kaitlynlewis6958 4 ай бұрын

@LizBlueandHazel nice! When we get to "ar" and he doesn't remember I tell him it's the pirate sound and then he remembers lol

@sierrabird2460 2 ай бұрын

I tried several different starting to read curriculums and this is the first one he's actually been into. Not sure what i'll do after though.

@alyanahzoe 2 ай бұрын

7:28 i gotcha! *starts rapping*

@shannon-nw4gq 11 ай бұрын

I just got the book for my 5 year old and I didn’t catch if it was mentioned that you have to do each lesson consecutively for 100 days or not, for it to be considered their proper recommended method?

@LizBlueandHazel 11 ай бұрын

I’m not 100% sure what the book recommends. With each of my 3 kids that have learned to read with this, we’ve taken about 1 full year. We go slowly as the lessons pick up. I believe by lesson 20 or so or when the lessons get longer, we split a lesson into 2 days. Otherwise I really lose their attention. We do try to do some reading practice every day, but with each child we’ve seemed to take breaks here and there which do set them back a bit as they forget some things. If you do a little everyday it’s much better than taking long amounts of time off!

@SouthernCouture4 Жыл бұрын

I am on lesson 14 with my 5 year old. This was super helpful. I have the Dash into Learning readers as well. I was wondering what to do after finishing this. Do you think a full blown reading curriculum like All About Reading is necessary once you finish this book? Not necesssarily the first level of AAR but maybe level 2? I have never been through it completely as this is my first so I am not sure. Very unsure on how to make sure his reading skills continue to grow and learn.

@LizBlueandHazel Жыл бұрын

Lesson 14 is right where he really starts sounding out more words and sentences, how exciting! I don't think another reading program is necessary after this at all. However, we've always needed more practice reading level 1 books from the library, so I just continue our "reading lesson time" daily, for about 10 minutes, reading something easy. When it gets too easy, we find books with more words, maybe a paragraph per page instead of a few sentences. Dick and Jane books really enchanted my daughter and Dash books. My boy loved Elephant & Piggy, beginner joke books, Frog & Toad, and anything with lots of pictures at first. Eventually comic books got him into liking reading for fun...lots of pictures and not too many words!

@ashleymurphy4813 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for answering this! I’m happy to hear you did not need another program after this. Just books🤗

@deborahmoss5704 Жыл бұрын

It’s been a while since I’ve used this book, but I thought the small letters were used to indicate the letter was silent. (On the example you gave for near, they have already learned the ‘a’ sound, but the ‘a’ is silent in the word near.)

@cristinap6394 10 ай бұрын

Yes you are correct. It has nothing to do with that they haven’t learned the sound yet. It’s to show it’s silent. They say that in the book too!

@mandyrizzo8398 4 ай бұрын

I will never forget my first grade teacher telling us "When two vowels go awalking the first one does the talking!"

@alyanahzoe 2 ай бұрын

@@mandyrizzo8398 that’s nice. badanamu has a song like that.

@ashleymurphy4813 Ай бұрын

Did you use a follow up reading curriculum with your kids after TYC?

@LizBlueandHazel Ай бұрын

We like dash into learning books, all 3 sets, but those are pricey. I’ve got a blog post on those or use BLUEANDHAZEL20 for a 20% discount. We’re now through with those and using easy readers like Dick and Jane, go dog go, little bear, Elephant and Piggy, etc.

@JulianeBella Жыл бұрын

When you read the second time you’re supposed to ask questions. I think the goal of reading a second time is to build comprehension and critical thinking as they are reading. 😉