Teach your child to read

I have been teaching a course at BYU on how to teach children to read since before I even knew my husband, and this book has always been a piece of this course. I even used it for three years when I taught in the public schools and I saw so much success with my students there.

Now that I have my own 4 year-old, we have begun to use this book to teach her how to read and it has been my most exciting experience yet with this text.

The book is designed as short daily lessons for a parent to use to teach their child to read. The instructions are all contained within the text on how to teach it (it is a scripted format so anyone can do it) and you need not be an expert to use it. I highly recommend it as a tool to use to help build a strong foundation of phonemic awareness and phonics in your child before they begin school.

I would caution you though that children will be ready to read on differing levels, so if your child does not seem to enjoy the lessons or gets easily frustrated with them, I would back off and try again another time.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons by: Siegfried Engelmann