Early readers hold an educational advantage---and the respected DISTAR reading program gives your children that head start. By investing 20 minutes a day, you'll have your preschoolers and non-reading elementary school children reading at a second grade level in 100 days. Covers sound identification, decoding of words and sentences, irregulars, and more. Clear instructions included. 395 pages, softcover from Fireside.

* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?

* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?

* Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms?

* Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school?

* Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong?

SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.

Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your 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 here -- no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions -- just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.

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Reviewed by Meg (Georgia), April 07, 2010

We have thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is great for helping me learn the foundations of teaching reading and where to begin. I love that "stories" are introduced very quickly and my son felt like he was "reading" early on in the lessons. Once I found a rhythm and learned how my son was learning, I was able to diverge from the script and have fun with the lessons. I moved to writing the stories on the whiteboard early so as to reinforce proper sentence structure (eg: capitals and punctuation) versus just reading the words. This is definitely a helpful and very useful tool for basic reading instruction. If you choose not to follow the lesson structure to the "T" it will still work! (And yes, reading and referring back to the directions will quickly answer most questions you develop along the way.)

Reviewed by Donna zu Hone (Owego, NY), March 21, 2010

As a new homeschooling mom of two older boys pulled out of public school with great difficulty with reading, I was very nervous about teaching my younger children to read. I even considered sending them to Kindergarten and then pulling them into homeschool once they learned to read. We are 30 lessons into this book with my 5 year old daugher. She struggled with the rhyming in the beginning and I worried and wondered if it was just too soon, but we kept with it and then it just clicked. Now when we hit something new, I just go with it and repeat a lesson if necessary, knowing that it will click eventually. She loves her reading lessons and reminds me that we need to do it if it is a particulary busy day and we forgot. I'm excited to see how it ends up, and where we will go from here. I'm looking at curriculum for next year and not sure what kind of reading materials will be needed following this book, but I do highly recommend it thus far.

Reviewed by Mom of 4 (New Jersey), February 25, 2010

My 3 year old already knew all her letters and letter sounds. One day she asked for me to teach her how to read like her older sisters. She gets excited each time I use 100 easy lessons with her. She says it is so much fun.

Reviewed by Lisa Bodder (Fountainville, PA), October 08, 2009

I started this book with my nearly 5 year old. I was very thankful for the forward at the beginning - which is a must-read for every parent so you understand where the book is coming from. Everything went well until we got to the "rhyming" sections. My son stalled. "I can't do this!" he would cry. I realized that he was already learning true rhyming and sound blending was not it in his mind, so it was too hard for him to do. My sister-in-law suggested changing the wording in the script to "word friends" or something less intimidating (and he loves watching PBS's Word World). I decided on "sound friends." At first he was very leary to try again, but once he realized we weren't "rhyming" anymore, he is doing great and loving it! It is so cool to see him catch on and start reading. So on making this one change with the book, I would highly recommend it.

Reviewed by Marilyn Cheatham (Hampton Cove, AL), August 04, 2009

My son, after finishing kindergarten, was still unable to recognize letters and sounds. After using "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons", he was reading in 3 months. I highly recommend this text.

Reviewed by Joan Jackson (Mc Calla, AL), June 05, 2009

My goal is to have my 4 year old reading before she is five. She is catching on really well to this and looks forward to her reading lesson.

Reviewed by Tara (Sewickley PA), February 16, 2009

I have taught two of my three children to read with this book (and the third will be starting in a couple of years). It is not flashy or exciting, but it is easily manageable and gets the job done. Both of my boys have been stellar readers after finishing this book, one at the age of FOUR and the other at the age of six. We had no problem moving from this book into I Can Read It type books, and just used the list suggested by the SonLight curriculum company for the last part of their first grade program.

Reviewed by Stacey (Dumfries, VA), February 03, 2009

In general, this book has been great at teaching my 4-year old daughter to read. The book claims that the child will achieve a 2nd grade reading level by the end, but I think this is only true for decoding skills. Advanced phonics sounds are introduced quickly, but comprehension and fluency are not at a second grade level by the end of this text. This has made it difficult to decide what curriculum to use next! Most of the stories are pretty silly, which my daughter likes. Sometimes the characters do mean or bad things, so we have to follow up with a discussion about moral behavior. Some of the stories require higher-level thinking by using sarcasm or emotions that are not evident in the text. There are not many pictures, and the child is not supposed to look at the picture until after reading the story twice. This was frustrating for my daughter. Occasionally, there are errors in grammar in the reading passages, like using conjunctions at the beginning of sentences.

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