Teaching a 5 year old How to Read - Page 2

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Originally Posted by pigpokey

I read this and think "well it's not the tool but how you use it." Both my kids used 100 EZ at the same time, at ages 3&4 to 4&5. It did not "push them into reading" but rather gave them the skills to decode words in a way that built skills gradually, in short kid-friendly lessons, and was, I thought, quite gentle. It doesn't say "100 Days and your child will read or else." I think we used it for about seven months and they had a very good foundation for continuing their development as readers.

We did this as well with dd1 when she around 3-3.5. She was very interested in learning to read. We did it for a very short period of time and she loved it. When she got bored we stopped. We did not follow the script, we were way more laid back. It really helped things click for her and shortly after she turned four started reading books by herself using the stuff she learned from the book.

[AAK]

Originally Posted by yllek

[*]We didn't start PP until after ds was already reading cvc words. A big chunk of the book is blending two sounds (ba, be, bi, etc.).

I looked at PP and it is the devotion of the blending two sounds that drove me nuts (and was why I didn't use it). It made no sense to me to teach a child that. Especially since sometime a two letter word IS a word. The author wanted (assuming I understood correctly) us to teach the kids to blend with short vowel sounds. I didn't want my kid memorizing be to be /b/ /e/ since it was also a word with a long vowel. Not only that, but the author treats these blends as if they are in themselves sounds. Rather than blends. If we just give our children skills to blend, then this huge task of memorizing thousands of combinations is a not needed.

Amy

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Originally Posted by AAK

I looked at PP and it is the devotion of the blending two sounds that drove me nuts (and was why I didn't use it). It made no sense to me to teach a child that.

Amy, what did you use instead?

Thanks everyone!