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Read-Aloud Revival ®

RAR #185: Should I Use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons?

Read-Aloud Revival ®

Sarah Mackenzie

Education, Reading, Read-aloud, Parenting, Books, How To, Kids & Family, Teaching From Rest, Homeschool

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Wondering if you should use Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons? Here's what I think (and what I recommend) when teaching your kids to read.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi Sarah. Hi Sarah. My name is Holly. Hi Sarah. My name is April. I'm in Melbourne, Australia.

0:06.8

I have a question about my name is Julie Ann and we live in India. I am wondering,

0:12.6

Hi Sarah. This is Crystal from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Can you give me a suggestion for an especially fabulous book?

0:23.7

Hey there. I'm Sarah McKenzie. This is the Read-A-Loud Revival. And in this short episode,

0:28.7

I'm answering one of your questions. Hi Sarah. I've come across this resource. I'm in a lot of

0:38.0

homeschooling resource suggestions of teaching your child to read and it's called

0:44.9

to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. Have you heard of it before? What do you think about it?

0:53.2

Do you approve or recommend this approach to teaching your child to read or do you have an alternative

1:02.3

suggestion? Thank you. This is a great question. Yes, Teacher Child to Read in 100 easy lessons is

1:10.4

one of the most talked about. Teacher Child, you know, phonics teaching children to read programs

1:15.6

in the homeschool world. I approve of any program that teaches your child to read and helps them

1:21.6

maintain their love of stories and reading and it doesn't cause anyone to cry. So I have heard

1:28.4

great things from others who 100 easy lessons has worked for. I'll tell you I did not have a great

1:34.7

experience with it. It just didn't work for my kids. I know now why that is. I know now it's because

1:40.4

most of my kids have some varying shade for lack of a better word of dyslexia. They have some

1:48.6

amount from a very slight to pretty profound dyslexia and 100 easy lessons that program

1:55.2

is not a great program for teaching kids who are dyslexic. Now, if you use Teacher Child to read in

2:01.5

100 easy lessons and it works great for you, your kids don't mind it, you don't mind it and they

2:06.5

seem to be getting it just fine and nobody hates reading, then use it. I think there's no problem

2:11.5

with it. If however you try it and your child does not understand it or you find that either one

2:19.4

of you is sort of beating your head against a wall or getting frustrated or the lessons are taking

2:23.8

too long or ending in tears, stop using it and use something else. And I would say that about

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