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By now your child knows how to talk, and you have read books to him. Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book,
This review is from: The Ordinary Parents Guide To Teaching Reading (Paperback)
When I was teaching my now 9 year old daughter to read, it was a constant struggle and even now she doesn`t have the love for reading that I wanted her to have. I got this book when I was getting ready to teach my 6 year old son to read. In the few months that we have been using this book, he is well on his way to reading and enjoying it. He is excited about reading. The lessons are short and provide good instructions to the teacher. My 4 year old son will be starting this book next week and I`m sure he will be reading well by the time he is 5.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Thorough reading programme for the 'ordinary' parent,
By PirateMum (Waterloo, ON) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Ordinary Parents Guide To Teaching Reading (Paperback)
After reading a previous review I had to comment: this book is not meant for trained teachers, hence the 'ordinary parent' reference in the book's title. Sure, it can come across as rigid instruction but as an ordinary parent it's important for me to know I'm not leaving gaps in my child's reading instruction. We take what we can use, like, and find effective and leave the rest. The option is there for flexibility if you chose. One thing I really liked about the book was the recommended additional resources were inexpensive - some magnetic letters (dollar store), magnetic board (use a cookie sheet) and blank file cards. Effective learning with little financial outlay. And, by all means, keep reading aloud to your child!
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Helpful but rigid,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Ordinary Parents Guide To Teaching Reading (Paperback)
I'm a teacher who was trained in the Whole Language approach to learning reading: that is, reading acquisition occurs as a natural, emergent process in a print-rich environment. My university profs, however, valued phonics as part of the whole picture but no one taught me how to use phonics as part of reading "instruction".I am homeschooling my own child. I ordered Wise's book as I felt I wanted a book specific to phonics instruction. I didn't want to miss something along the way. Although it's helpful to think about different vowel sounds and consent blends/digraphs, I find that Wise's very structured lessons are too limiting. Maybe it's my kid, but he is much more interested in learning to read in context than through the lessons (starting with short vowel sounds). A note of caution: Wise favours the terms "little a" and "big A", which can be confusing for children (upper case and lower case, although more technical, are accurate descriptors than size). In addition, describing vowel sounds as "short" and "long" is also confusing as you can draw out the "short" a in "cat" to be as long as the "long" a in "take". For the insecure or inexperienced "teacher", this book will help you understand the important phonetic concepts to cover with your child. Your child may enjoy the lessons and you may have peace of mind that you are being thorough. I do urge you to keep in mind that most early readers are children who are read to and that not all children are ready to read at a young age. Certainly, not all children need rigid phonics instruction to learn to read (although knowledge of phonics is important but it can be taught in the context of reading aloud with your child).
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