I started teaching my grandkids, Tate and Sawyer, to read this past summer using the book, Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons. (Note: Luke, their dad did about 35% of the lessons as well)
I highly recommend this book. The lessons take about 15-20 minutes each day. Not only do they focus on reading, but writing and reading comprehension as well. There are pictures with each story that my grandkids could not wait to see. (The pictures are to remain covered until after they read the story). I wanted to get the lessons done before they started kindergarten, but that did not happen due to several issues. The boys are not on the same reading level. Tate finished with lesson 100 on March 13, while Sawyer has a few more lessons before he is done. We had our reading party for both anyway. Both of them could hardly wait to celebrate. I decorated the table in Dr. Seuss fashion.
I made a cake shaped like a book with a bookmarked similar to the one we used in our real book.
I let them each pick out a gift for completing their lessons, and I wrote and illustrated a book about them that they could read themselves. Each book had 20 pages...they loved their books.
Before they got to open any gifts, they had to read a lesson...the last one (100) for Tate, and Sawyer lesson 80.
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| Lesson 100 |
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| Lesson 100 |
Some fun, and gifts...
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| This is what Tate picked for his gift |
