Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
This beginner reading curriculum, written by Siegfried Engelmann, is phonics based and has 100 lessons laid out in an “open and go” format. The lessons are so easy to facilitate and fun! All you need for the program is this book (currently $18.89 on Amazon (affiliate link) and some paper (if you want to do the handwriting portion). Sometimes we did the writing; sometimes we didn’t.
Lessons start off with a few easy sounds (m, s, short a) and teach how to sound out a word from left to right. Every few lessons, a new sound is introduced and incorporated with the other sounds learned. At lesson 13, phrases are introduced and are paired with pictures. We learn that the reading informs us about the picture. The difficulty increases all the way to stories that span the length of a page.
Bible Reader by My Father's World
As soon as my oldest got through about lesson 60 of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, I got him a lot of Beginner Readers – check out a list of our favorites here! This Bible Reader from My Father’s World was one of the first we purchased so he could start reading Bible stories by himself. He was so excited and loves to get his “bible” and read familiar stories. I’d obviously prefer him to read from the actual Word of God and we do, but this resource is wonderful for increasing confidence of reading in the early stages of reading on his own.
This book has a selection (a lot!) of Bible stories paraphrased for a beginning reader who already knows basic phonics and the concept of sounding out words. The first stories use simpler words, while the readability increases in difficulty through the book. A black and white drawn picture accompanies each story that could be colored, as well as a story title and the scripture reference.
I purchased this at Mardel because it was a little cheaper than on My Father’s World, but this is by My Father’s World in the Learning God’s Story package, also available as a stand-alone book.
