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The Reading Lesson

Michael Levin and Charan Langton

The Reading Lesson is one of the reading choices for the Little Hearts for His Glory curriculum. That's how I learned about it. I like this one because it is plain and simple. Some phonics programs get so complicated, it's like learning another language just to understand them. It is also visually pleasing.

My daughter is using the Reading Lesson to teach her 4 year-old to read. They think it is great. It works and is easy for her to use with her daughter.

ISBN-13:
9780913063026

List $27.95

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Phonics Review Student Text

Publisher: BJU Press

For the student who is struggling or was never taught the basic phonics concepts, the Phonic Review Student Text will be helpful. It has two units to provide phonemic awareness practice. The remaining four units focus on different phonics skills and comprehension practice. New skills are reviewed with story booklets and creative writing activities.

Phonics Review can also be used to help ESL students to learn to identify the sounds and varied spellings of English language words.

The full-color illustrations are mostly photographs with some drawings. The layout is spacious and not crammed. It has many different types of activities—a good mix of easy and more challenging types.

Suitable for students who need help with phonics. Consumable softcover text with 256 pages.

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ISBN-13:
9781591664666

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Phonics Review Answer Key

Publisher: BJU Press

The Phonics Review Answer Key shows reduced-size student pages with answers filled in with a bold red font. Four student pages are on each AK page. This makes grading much easier. The Phonics Review Answer Key also has a list of Rules and Definitions in the back.

Softcover

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ISBN-13:
9781591664673

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Classical Phonics A Child's Guide to Word Mastery

By Cheryl Lowe, Publisher: Memoria Press

Based on Florence Akin's 1913 classic, Word Mastery, Classical Phonics is a methodical teaching of phonics. It has been redesigned and reorganized for better use today while keeping the original concepts for teaching.

Instructions for the teacher are shown at the bottom of each page as needed. They used a simple larger size font for the print, and the pictures are well drawn and simple.

Before you use this book, you need to read the "Suggestions to Teachers" in the back of the book.

If you are wondering where to start with teaching phonics, this book is a good choice. It is well written and economically priced. Classical Phonics is effective and simple, proving that teaching reading does not have to be complicated.

ISBN-13:
9781615380114

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Phonogram Cards

By Lakemere Publishing

The Phonogram Cards are very helpful when you are teaching a child to read with phonics—particularly if you did not learn to read with phonics.

We used these with our children and highly recommend them. They can supplement any phonics based reading program.

The beauty of using the cards is that the child sees the phonogram side with the letters printed in a large font while you are looking at the teacher's side with the instructions. Your side shows the sound(s) for the phonogram, a key word so you will know how it sounds, and exactly what to say to explain it to your student.

There are 72 basic phonograms. On the cards for the 26 phonograms that are letters of the alphabet, there are scripted instructions for writing each letter. This makes teaching handwriting much easier.

We laminated our set and used a paper cutter to cut them apart. A quart size freezer zip lock bag is a great place to keep them. Our grandchildren are using our original set.

Sturdy cardstock printed on 18 pages with four cards to a page.

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Alpha Phonics: A Primer for Beginners

By Samuel L. Blumenfeld

Simple, inexpensive phonics based reading curriculum--no frills. If you need help with the phonics aspect of reading, Alpha-Phonics teaches the basics.

ISBN-13:
9780941995009

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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

By Siegfried Engelmann

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows parents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.

Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days you child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It's a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is her for you and your child to learn together. The lessons are fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity and give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.

Based on SRA's DISTAR reading program, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is appropriate for "preschool children (bright three-and-a-half-year-olds, average four- and five-year-olds)." It is also "appropriate for children who have been in school but who have not learned to read. The program is not recommended for 'poor readers' who have been taught how to read but who make frequent mistakes."

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is particularly useful if your child is having trouble blending sounds. The way it teaches this technique is simple and helpful.

It is non-consumable. In addition to the book, you will need some paper or a chalkboard.

The instructions are detailed--scripted--on each lesson page.

ISBN-13:
9780671631987

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Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading

by Jessie Wise and Sara Buffington

It uses a "simple, scripted format that guides parents and children through each lesson, from beginning vowel sounds through words on a fourth-grade level." It's the "only book you'll need to teach your child to read!"

With this book, you can jump in and start teaching reading to your child. The authors have included information on teaching phonics in the back of the book. It's not that hard, and with this book, you can do it.

The only additional materials you'll need with the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading  are a magnetic board with alphabet tiles, index cards, and the usual school supplies: yarn, scissors, pens, pencils, drawing supplies, yarn, magnets, paperclips, and one dowel for one special activity.

Preschool to Grade 2

ISBN-13:
9780972860314

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Reading Made Easy CD

Valerie Bendt

Now on CD, all 108 lessons  of Reading Made Easy are contained in PDF files which you can print from your home computer as you need them.

Also included is an audio workshop by Valerie Bendt entitled “Teaching Your Child to Read.”

As a bonus for children who complete the program, the CD includes a file containing a 32-page reader entitled “The Picnic Ants.” This reader includes blank space for children to add their own illustrations.

The book version of Reading Made Easy is out of print. The advantage of the CD version is that you only print what you need (or you can view the PDF file on the computer), it is cheaper for you to print it on your printer (the book was $45.00).

ISBN-13:
9781885814180

Price $25.00