TEACH YOUR CHILD TO READ IN 100 EASY LESSONS Update | PROGRESS | CHILD READS in 100 EASY LESSONS
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- I wanted to share with you more details on how I successfully used 100 easy lessons to teach 3 of our kiddos how to read. In a previous video, we compared two popular programs for teaching young children how to read - 'The Reading Lesson' and 'Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons' but really wanted to share more details about this particular curriculum. Hopefully you'll have a better idea on how to teach reading using this book.
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
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Learn to Read Activity Book
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I love that you showed us how your daughter read at the end because it’s encouraging that she wasn’t suddenly this speed reader, just still on the reading journey. It’s good to know what to expect for the end result. Thank you.
Thanks for watching! Always my pleasure to help others see what the journey looks like!
Thank you for the tips! I'm excited to "put the glitter" on this book with my first kindergartener this year.
Yes!!! It'll be short, simple, and as "glittery" as you want to make it ;)
I love Spell to Write and Read. I saw my 8 years speech improve with just a couple of weeks of going over the phonograms. He started reading within two weeks. It teaches ALL the sounds a symbol makes.
Interesting! I've heard of it but never checked it out since this has work for 3 kiddos so far. Definitely want to check it out
2nd time Going through this book. Its amazing. NOT FUN. It works so well. I have my child stay on a chapter for several days. My first child reading chapter books after completing the book. Tryed other programs but keep coming back to this! Its wonderful. We just take our time, let my kids keep practicing until really have it done. Then we move on.
Yes!! But I do love that it CAN be more fun than they made it. Sometimes when curriculums are Soo long, there's NO time for creativity or if a day is more packed, I LOVE that we are done so quickly if we dont do the games! Soooo much flexibility!!!!!
Great content! Super helpful in understanding what this book is about.
Glad to hear that!!
Lol the fly swagger part is funny I’ll try that with my daughter.
As a teacher I feel like it's always important to get their attention with new fun engaging ways!!
This is what we used to teach my youngest daughter to read when she was prek age! I implemented it with using BOB books as well & it worked so well for her! We also used letter sound songs and things so it made it more fun for her because it was definitely boring! Lol
It sure is!!! But it definitely is nice having a $15 tool to teach reading and then just making more fun based on each child's interest and personalities!! Going to start it with our 4th little one and I'm still amazed at the cost since we've used it successfully with 3 kiddos so far!!!
I would love to know those letter sound songs! I’m so excited to use this 😊
Thank you so much this was super helpful!
Absolutely!! My pleasure!!
Great suggestions, thank you
Absolutely!
I've used this exact super fast reading program for years with many students. The student will not only be able to read English words but it is also teaching the student a strategy of sounding out new words not included in the 420 words used in the book. Its hard at first but when the student completes lessons 70 - 80, wow they take off. You no longer have to sound out each word in the story, just have them read the story under your guidance, then they read it by themselves. At the end of lesson 100, your student or child will be able to read at a 1.5 grade level regardless of there age.
Yes! Thanks for sharing this!
Hi, I just purchase this book and I wonder if you can use this book with a group of 4 or 5 students
@@jennydarco3333 yes you can. I've had as many a 8 students in one session in my resource class and I taught Spanish speaking only students in mexico. I got amazing results. One draw back is if a student in the group misses a lesson session, its more difficult for them in the next session. If they miss more then four sessions it is often impossible for them to catch up and have to join another group that's on a lower level or lesson.
You sure can!!
these ideas are fantastic!
Thanks for watching!
I’m so glad I watched this video! I have this book already and I’m currently using it as a remedial tool for my rising second grader. She really needs help with phonics skills and it’s been amazing so far. However, I’m intimidated to use it to teach my son to read from the beginning, but your video has completely solidified for me that I just need to use this book!! Your tips have showed me how to adapt the book and make fun. Side note: I quit reading all the pink text by lesson 18 with my daughter and we both appreciated that 😂.
I'm sooo happy you stopped reading it because it feels soooo tedious, long, and unnatural to read it outloud! Glad it helped solidify your decision!!!!!!
@@TheBalancedMom I have been researching for DAYS for another reading curriculum and was willing to spend $160 because this book just isn’t fun. But like I said I’m so glad I watched this video! I can save myself the money and teach him to read without all of the fluff of a pricey program.
Yes!!!! And it's sooo affordable!!!!! And I love how versatile it is! It can be as fun as needed or as dry as it needs to be. Blessings to you and your family! :)
Wow.. super helpful tips! I've used both Bob books and this curriculum not all the way through yet. Dappled in both. Definitely going to try your ideas now! Thank you!!
My pleasure!!! Glad it helped-- hope you enjoyed it as much as we do! We are starting again with our 4th child this fall or maybe spring so it definitely works!!
Thank you for this video! We gave up last year because it got too hard for my daughter, but I've been thinking about going back to it!
I did the same with our first!!! But a huge reason I stopped was because I kept reading EVERYTHING on it and it dragged sooo much!
@@TheBalancedMom I love your ideas and tips to not read everything. It felt very unnatural and forced for both of us, so I'm going to try your approach!
Yes!! Good way of explaining it---it absolutely felt sooo unnatural!!!
I made a video about this curriculum last year when my daughter who was four at the time did this- it was AMAZING!! She was reading wonderfully by the end and now reads amazingly. I’m doing this with my twins now who are almost 5 and they are doing it well- I do have a question though- have you found any curricula to follow this that you’ve enjoyed. My daughter was beyond bob books too by the end, rendering them moot lol we check out library books thst she reads sails, but she misses sitting with me and doing a lesson a day like this- I can’t find anything that’s quick and will advance her. Especially now that I’m doing it with my twins, she’s really missing it! We do sit together and I listen to her read 20 minutes daily but she misses the novelty of learning something new. Love this video! Thanks for sharing I’m just as passionate! Love it!
Yes!!! I move to Language Lessons for a well trained mind level 1 or MFW language arts which is language lessons for today! Both are great transitions. MFW is a bit more gentle but both are short lessons under 15 minutes!!! Hope that helps!
@@TheBalancedMom that helps tremendously thank you haven’t heard of either so off to google I go! Lol thanks so much!
Absolutely!! My pleasure! Hope you enjoy one of them!!!
Could you do a video what you have been using for LA with your kids? I also use 100 easy lessons book and love it and than we have been using TGATB for LA but thinking to try something different…
Sure can!! However I should warn you that we've used tons of different language arts curriculums over the past decade!!
Love the fly swatter idea. Do you have more fun mini games? My daughter has a short attention span and I definitely need to keep it fun and lively!
Yes... You can also fill the page with cheerios or whatever else you'd like them to munch on and if they get it right, they can to eat it!!
You can also write the sounds on the board And when you say the sound they have to run up to the board and erase the sound!!
What age did you start at? Does your child need to know the letter sounds beforehand? I just bought this book, so excited to start!
It depends-- I have started it at different ages depending on the child. I started at 4, 5, and even 6.
This mom either didn't read the "Introduction" in this book or didn't understand it. Everything this book tells you, the teacher, to say to your child has been meticulously planned (and proven by testing with *many* kids) so that your child will understand it perfectly. In other words, your child will never get confused or learn something wrong - *if* you do the lessons, including reading what you're supposed to say to your child, exactly as the book tells you to. This precision in teaching is what makes this reading program virtually fail-proof and effective even with many children who are "learning disabled" or "intellectually impaired."
Definitely read it-- thanks! But when you have children in tears from the repitition and lose focus during me reading the instruction, I hope that ANY person using it take that as a sign to change the instruction as needed. I used it successfully with 3 kids with everything I said in the video and it was successful. We went from tears to being excited to play the games that I mentioned. Thanks for taking the time to respond and being concerned about the introduction not being read, but yes, I read it all.
It can't be failed proof if so many people on the HSing community aren't using it anymore--- because it's boring for the kids they've used it with. I was speaking from experience along with helping many others who stopped using because of tears. I wanted to share how we tweeked it so that the HSing community knows it does work for MANY children and it can be tweeked per child!
@@TheBalancedMomdoes HSing mean homeschooling? And what age do you recommend teaching your kids to read?
@@xthebluenitex yes it means homeschooling----great question: I recommend starting at 4,5, or 6 but not rushing into it (which is the mistake I made with my first). Our 4th little one is 4 years old and we have done just the first 2 lessons and I'm in no rush. By the time he is 7, he will be reading whether I do a lesson a week, a lesson a day-- you get the point, I go with the flow
This is totally encouraging because I felt that 100 easy lessons can be boring so after 4 kids, I am trying all about reading. I may get my 100 easy lessons out again and may even try it again. How old was your daughter at the time? Thanks for sharing.
I started when my oldest was 4 BUT I felt like that's too young now when I look back. I'd start when child is 4 and only do 1 a week or 1-2 lessons for a few weeks to really slow it down. I would even push waiting until 5 and still going slowly because school can really burn these kiddos out when they are start sooo young. But if you do plenty of games and such 1 lesson a week is great for such a young child
Thanks for sharing. Is is for home school or as a supplemental to school learning?
Either works! It wasn't designed for homeschooling but it works for both! I've used it as a supplement and as a stand alone reading program to teach little ones to read
Any suggestions on how to help them with sight words? “Am” has been really tricky for us!
Am isn't a sight word. It's just sounded as short vowel sound "a" and "m". I don't teach sight words until they know how to read phonetically (with the exception of "the"
Thank you this was very helpful, I got the book yesterday to teach my twins how to read and just at a glance I feel a bit overwhelmed with the introduction/instruction, after watching your video it put my mind at easy and I know I can do it. One question, do you always do the lessons one on one? Can you have two kids doing the same lesson together (twins) or is it best to make it one on one? Thanks for your time.
Personally, I would start them together! You can always take a few minutes extra at any point to work one on one with each as needed. But the friendly competition that it will create is a wonderful thing (which is a actually what I miss about the classroom). Games were so much more fun when other kids played-- instead of just one child. I tried doing many things together with my oldest 2 and then they needed to go their own seperate ways (the older one advancrd much faster) because they were 2 years apart but it was fun while it lasted!!
@@TheBalancedMom Thanks so much, I will definitely try that approach 😘
Absolutely!! Hope you have a blessed day!
What do you use for progress monitoring?
I treat the assessments as actual assessments to see how they are doing
Yes, I just started this book (on lesson 3) and the pink is so strange to me and my toddler. She didn’t want to finish her lesson today bc the long crawled out words that I was being made to say actually weirded her out lol. I started just using the letters after that bc I wasn’t sure what the heck the purpose of the pink was even for. When I look at this book my brain gets so overwhelmed and confused bc of all the things I need to read and say perfectly. It’sa lot of pressure. Also the A sound was confusing the heck out of me. I think I’m just going to say A as in “eigh” bc A as in and doesn’t make sense to me.
A as in Apple -- it's the short a sound not A like in mate. They teach long vowel sounds later so make sure to teach the short a sound. Totally agree with what you said!
@@TheBalancedMom ok thank you. I’m still so confused on how to pronounce the sounds perfectly in the book. There’s so many different ways to say the vowels 😂
@@TheBalancedMom is there a video you can refer me to so I can better understand goes to pronounce the sounds? I know the long vowel sounds just say their name so that’s at least easy lol
I would look up the short vowel sounds to know the short sounds for a, e, i, ,o, and u then you can look up the long vowel sounds so you can get familiar with those too!
@@TheBalancedMom thank you!!!
What do you use for handwriting in conjunction with this? I bought this last year, but was super intimidated by it. I want to give it a try this year though bc I’ve heard so many good things about it.
I typically do this when they are 4 years old and with our 3rd one, I actually used it when she was 5 alongside with whatever writing they get from phonics. I don't do a separate writing one though. IMO, The practice they get in their phonics book was enough. There's a tad bit of writing they can do with this book-- they can write the word they hear, our just the letters at the beginning
@@TheBalancedMom Sounds good! What phonics curriculum do you recommend?
Believe it or not I don't actually use a phonics curriculum! I just grab a phonics book (random workbook from any store) for the practice for kinder. In first grade I start to use well trained mind for LA and I actually don't use phonics otherwise.
@@TheBalancedMom Oh, awesome! I already have a couple of those, so that works out great. Thank you so much for your help!! 😃
Absolutely! My pleasure!!
Love this! What ages were your children when you started this with them?
I started at 4 and 5 but I actually regretted starting it at 4 the first time around even though she was an early reader. I started at 5 with the next 2 kiddos and using it again now in the fall with our 5 year old. If you start it with a 4 year old, just go slowly!!
@@TheBalancedMomGood to know! I actually tried the first lesson today with my son and he’s about 4.25. He responded really positively and was able to follow along. We got through every task except the last one in Lesson 1. He goes “okay, I’m done.” lol But he has been asking me teach him to read and do school and learn for maybe a month now so he seems receptive.
@@TheBalancedMomI also searched online for free printable pdfs for the book and found a couple. Someone has a really good set for every lesson for $12.99 but I think we’ll just try going through the book for now with flash cards I found for free.
@gracechiang7881 I started when my little man was but didn't do 1 lesson a day while with my oldest, I stuck to 1 lesson a day and that was my mistake because they were both just 4. With my other 2, waited until they were 5 and they kept up with a faster pace of about 1/day
I’m curious if the new book is different in any way than the old.
I'm not sure how the old one was so I'm not able to speak on that
Any suggestions for the early rhyming lessons. Were in lesson 5 and 6 and it makes no sense to my kid
I don't have any. We just do games. I introduce it as "just like animals make a sound, so do letters. We want to learn the sounds the letter make so we can learn to read"
How do the kids that learn thru this method do with comprehension?
My oldest didn't do so well with this book because I had no idea how to teach it. The other 2 absolutely thrived when I stopped reading everything that the teacher should say outloud. All 3 are doing great with comprehension!! The book includes questions to ask after the reading passages--- I sometimes asked my own questions
Thank you very much for sharing your experiences! Do you think I start with a 2.5 yr old?
No, please don't start at such a young age. At the age of 2, just focus on learning through play. For example pointing out colors and asking what color is this while they are playing. Or "look there are 2 animals" to introduce numbers. Take your time and focus on playing. Kids learn sooooo much through interactive play
Once you complete this book, do you do any further phonics instruction? Or do you just have them read to you daily?
Daily reading for sure! I've had one child switch to MFW (but we switched from that) another ended up going to language lessons for a well trained mind and now our 3rd school aged child, just did a phonics books this last year as she read to me daily (she's going into 2nd grade). You can't go wrong if they read to you daily because they pick up spelling, new words and Soo much more without the formal instructions!!
Have you child read other books at 1st or 2nd grade level. The sky's the limit for your child. This is a brilliantly devised program for reading English. I have also used it with Spanish speaking students. I use it together with the other direct instruction program called "learning for Language" created by the same authors.
Never heard of it! Thanks for letting me know!!!
@@TheBalancedMom "language for learning" teacher presentation books A, B, C, and D. The direct instruction program is self contained (you do need some props - common items not expensive) but the teacher presentation books are expensive. I bought some other versions on ebay. If you are a resource teacher, you can purchase the newest version on your teacher budget from your school district.
@@eldonjanzen9822 thanks I'm good with this book alone!
Do you prefer this over AAR?
Me personally, yes!!! It's so much quicker and shorter but still does the same work. So with 5 kiddos, this is definitely my go to. While AAR is great, it's much more time consuming. Excellent if you have more of that time to pull out the manipulatives and do each lesson but if youre looking for more open and go, be done within 15 minutes-- this is it!
-Andreea
@@TheBalancedMom Thank you!
My pleasure!
Would the student need to know all the names of the letters already in order to start this book?
No not at all!!
Does this book teach reading phonetically?
Yes most of it is phonetic -- like 98 percent of it. But words like the weren't pronounced phonetically -- I can't think of another word that isn't phonetic but there may be like a handful of them only
@@TheBalancedMom thank you. How does it teach words like ‘the’? Just by memorizing? We are currently doing TGATB and are on sight words but my daughter is struggling with them because it’s only through memorization and she asks me why aren’t we sounding it out and there aren’t any further instructions. I’m wondering if this would be better in this book. I hope that makes sense.
I haven't used since we finished with our third child so I can't remember -- but I teach it as "thee" and I'm pretty sure they say "thee" also and then I say thee and the are the same and interchange them for them to get that they are the same
I definitely think it's better as we moved away from TGTB because of the hodge podge of jumping around!!
Did they know sounds b4 this? My 7 yr old is not reading 😢
No, I start with this and you can slow down as needed. Learn the first sound, okay a few games, etc before moving on to the next lesson.