Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons - Review

Many parents on the search for a reading program come across Teach Your Child To Read in 100 Easy Lessons. Published in 1986, this book has helped many children learn how to read. The method of teaching reading used in this book is better than more random methods used by many other programs. However, there are several elements in the program that make it far from the ideal book to teach a child to read.

• Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons does not teach kids how to read using the normal alphabet. Instead, children need to learn a strange invented alphabet, which gives "clues" to how certain words should be pronounced. Unfortunatety some children (not to mention parents) find this strange alphabet to be confusing instead of helpful. So what happens when kids have to read real books with a normal alphabet? Some kids do alright and make the transition without too much trouble. Others start to guess more--because they never learned the real patterns of reading.
• Another drawback of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is the lack of sufficent reading materials. In order to earn to read well, children need practice reading real stories, preferably right after phonics instruction.
• Many kids find the lessons to be boring.

If you are looking for a reading program that works well for all children, and that children enjoy, you should find out more about Sound Bytes Reading.