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Last week I was working with my 4-year old daughter, teaching phonics, and she was so adorable going through the sounds with me.
Then we came to the part when I asked her to tell me the sounds, to see if she remembered what we went over.
It went like this:
I was teaching her the sound of “c” as in “cat”.
Then I ask her what sound “c” makes–
–and she says, “meeooow”.
Face-palm.
I have to admit, though, she had me laughing for a good 10 minutes–and then any time I spoke about it with someone after that! Smart little cookie, I’d say!
The beauty of teaching phonics–teaching reading really, is that when it seems like you’re getting nowhere, all of a sudden, one day, it clicks. They learn that the letters make sounds, and several sounds together make words. It just clicks. She is my fourth child who I have taught to read and each time is such a rewarding experience.
I think it really helps to have a good program, such as The Reading Lesson, to help guide you in a bit of a systematic and consistent way. They offer several tools to teach in a variety of ways. The DVD and the CD-rom helps to re-iterate what you teach from the book and it’s fun to watch in action.
Giveaway
I am giving away an entire package of “Reading Lesson” goodies to one reader!
How to enter:
Simply leave a comment and tell me how you might benefit from this awesome package.
Be sure to check out their website!!
Giveaway ends Friday night at 11:59pm EST.
U.S. residents only please.
Winner will be selected and contacted Saturday morning!
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My 3 yr old and 5 yr old would benefit greatly from this! We will be homeschooling this year.
I am currently teaching 2 boys to read. One is my son who will be 5 in Feb. and a little boy that I baby-sit and teach who will be 5 in April. This looks like it would be a great help!
I could definitely benefit from this, as I have an almost 3 year old, an almost 2 year old, and one on the way…they could all take turns using these reading lessons!!
Thank you! I too have a four year old daughter and we have recently started phonics with only regular flash cards. This sounds like a great program that I will have to look further into. Thanks again.
My 3.5 year old son has been crying after I leave his room at night when he looks at books on his own because he cant “read” them by himself. I read to him every night before he goes to bed and before he would “read” books on his own after I left. But now he knows that the words say something and he isn’t able to read them himself. I would love to have this program to teach him!
I would use it for my daycare!
My 5year old son has ADHD and ODD. He is in kindergarten and a little behind in his reading skills. I am trying on my own, but this would be a big help in trying to bring out the emerging reader that I know is inside him! Thanks for the opportunity!
I love to have this for my 4 year old little boy!!! He starts kindergarten next year and it would be a great help!!!!!!
This looks like it would be very helpful in teaching my 5 year old to read. It looks simple and to the point, which is what I need for him.
Love it! I would us this with my 4 yo and again w/ my 2 1/2 yo. This program would help my 4 yo bridge the gap between letter sounds & word pronounciation.
I homeschool and I have two 4 year olds who want to read soooo bad.
I have a daughter who is almost 4 and we would have a blast with this! She loves to read with her older sisters, so they’d be amused at helping her learn to read!
my son is in k and struggling to learn how to read with the large class size
This would be awesome to use with tje kids I babysit.
I would love this to have something special for me to do with my three year old! I’ve wanted to get something like this , but not sure where to start or if I wanted to spend the extra money. I’m a stay-home mom of 5 children (two are school age), this is something we could really use for my 3 yr old and later for my younger two. Thanks so much!
I’m looking for something to start teaching my 3.5 year old! This looks great!
We have just made the decision to homeschool my 4 year old for kindergarten next year. This would be so helpful!
I have 4 four children, 4 and under. I am just now teaching my four year these things as well. I would most certainly benefit from this package, now, and years to come, since I plan on homeschooling all my babies!
Any tool such as this would most certainly be resourceful!
I have a four year old and we are doing preschool at home. This would help me as I’m at a loss for what I should do in teaching him to read/knowing his letters. Thanks for the chance!
I have 2 children, ages 5 and 3 and I this program would make learning to read a lot more fun and hopefully less frustrating!
This looks fascinating! And I LOVE your Cat/C/Meow story because it is so similar to my son’s! He thought a Cow said Moo so everytime he sees a labeled picture of a cow he is convinced that COW spells MOO! Trying to change that is easier said than done! I would rather him learn it properly to start! My three girls never had this problem!
Hello, my son is struggling with learning to read. I think it well certainly benefit us both, get him interested in wanting to read & help him be successful at doing so. Thank you.
Hmmm, I’m very interested in this as my 7 year old is a struggling reader. My 9 year old reads several books a week and my 7 year old is very discouraged. Thanks for sharing this resource.
I am homeschooling my 4 year old and he is so ready to read. This would be perfect for him!!
I would love to have this to use for my 2 youngest and then to pass on to my grandbabies! Thank you for such an awesome giveaway!
I have a 4 year old and a 5 year that we homeschool! This would be great for them to do TOGETHER instead of mommy trying to bounce between them so much because the 4 year old picks up language concepts faster!
I have a 4 year old daughter as well and she loves to read with me. Every night we read and sometimes she will point to a word in the book and ask me what it says. Sometimes I ask her to pick out certain words that begin with a certain letter she recognizes. I think this information would be wonderful for us to review and do together. Thank you so much for this opportunity.
I have a 4 year old daughter that we are going to homeschool. We would love to have these great resources to help her learn to read!
I have a almost 4 year old who stuggles with his letters and a child who is currently learning to read I could use all the extra help I can get. We love to read so I encourage them with this more than anything.
I would love to have these awesome resources for my son who will soon be learning to read!!
What a God sent! I’ll be a first time homeschooler this year and been looking through curriculum like a mad dog. Needless to say it would be awsome to get this package from someone who has been there done that, if you know what i mean.
This sounds like a great program! We have a 4 and 5 yr old and we’ve been homeschooling. I have been trying to figure out which reading program to start with. This would be perfect.
My daughter is 4 and is eager to learn how to read. We love reading together and this resource would be wonderful to use with her! I would also benefit in using it with my son who is almost 3. Thanks so much for the opportunity!
hi Christin, I have a 4 year old eager beaver who is ready to learn and a two year old who has Down syndrome. This program would help me teach both of them! I would love the structure and guidance!
Fun! I have a 3 year old is is starting to sound out letters and I would love to have this for when she is ready to read!
Hi! Seeing your story and this program has really excited me! I have been apprehensive on the best way to teach my son to read. This looks great! Thank you so much for taking the time to share this with others. It is definitely helpful information for lost moms such as myself. I would love to start this program soon.
My four year old is reading already, but I would love fun activities to help solidify what she’s learned. We homeschool so she finishes her work before the other kids; would love more fun activities to do with her.
My 3 year old could really benefit from this set! She knows all of her letters and knows almost all of the sounds they make. Now we are working on writing them. She is a smart little blessing and we are loving homeschooling her and her 9 month old sister. We just need to grow our education library!
This sounds like a great program!! My daughter, Haven, is 4 1/2 nd has some special needs. She is behind her peers in preschool and needs a leg up. It sounds like this plan could help us give her a boost in her education and self confidence. Thank you for sharing this!! God bless!
I love to read – my daughter loves to be read to and is really eager to read (just like I was at her age – it’s the reason I wanted to start Kindergarten!
So this homeschooling momma feels that this is exactly what she’s been looking for! Thanks!
Looks great! I would love to win!! Just teaching my youngest daughter to read this year. And I cant wait til the juggling mommy and blogging comes out. Boy do I need that! Looking forward to reading it.
I’m a homeschooling mom of three, my oldest two started in public school and one of them really, really struggles with reading because she was never taught phonics.. they learn sight words. She can read but she has big trouble and we have realized she has no concept of what I mean when I tell her to “sound” a word out. Our son is three and already doing some preschool work. I would love to have something like this to do with him. He already knows some sounds but isn’t consistant – I know, he’s young – but I have purposed to make sure he gets a good phonics foundation so he does not have to be a weak reader.
I am a homeschool mommy of 5 beautiful blessings – Cheyenne 16, Michael 9, Molly 7, Aly 4 and Lily 2. They keep me so busy in such a wonderful way. They are also all so unique in their learning methods. I continue to try find balance while I homeschool the older children and do preschool with both of the younger children. It would be such an opportunity to have a new, exciting way for them to learn read that would also keep their attention.
Sounds like a really good resource that would just fit right into my curriculum. Being a homeschool mom is tricky sometimes, but it’s so rewarding!!!
I think the hardest part of homeschooling is teaching the little ones to read. This sounds like a good one!
We love The Reading Lesson, and ours is falling apart! Would love to have one with all the pages intact and all of the other resources to use with our little ones.
My granddaughters are amazing. Their mom, my daughter, works hard at finishing her own schooling and teaching her girls. This program would be sooo excellent for them all.
We homeschool so I can definitely use these! She is breezing through her other readers.
My oldest is 4 and started to try sound out words on his own. This sounds like a great resource to have!
Hi, I’m a mother of 6. I think those books would help a lot to improve their reading. Our children are 8,6,5,4,2/5,18 months of age. we live in Ireland and homeschooling here is very small, not much support.
Haha! I am in a similar situation as Daniela. Live in Qatar and homeschool. We have 5 kids, one due any day now. With the oldest 2 (twins who are almost 7) I had the time to really dig into phonics, and they loved it. Not so much with the next (now 5 years old).
I am a homeschooling mom of 4 kids and I am embarking on teaching #3 to read. Each child is so different and it would be helpful to have this in my arsenal!
I am in the midst of teaching my kids to read. Would love to have some reinforcements!
I am looking right now for a good phonics program for my 5 year old son, I am overwhelmed by all the different options out there! I would love to try this program.:)
I would love to win this! I am a first time homeschooling Momma, on a tight budget, and I’m more than a little nervous about teaching my 4ry old little guy to read! This would be a huge help
It this would be wonderful for my struggling kindergartener! We seem to remember the letters if we sing the spalphabet song, but remembering them on his own is a challenge!
This is an awesome giveaway! I’m a new homeschooling mom and I’d love to give my son a solid reading foundation to foster his love of reading! Lord knows, I’ve bought a ton of Dr. Seuss books and I’d like for him to experience the joy of the tongue twister!
My sweet little 4 year old is so interested in reading and writing. She constantly asks if we can “do school” like her older brother. This program looks perfect for her!
I am homeschooling my 5 year old boys and one of them needs more encouragement than the other. I would like it for him, to give him confidence and a positive experience.
I homeschool as well, I have been working on the basic phonics with my 4 year old daughter and 4 year old twin nieces–this looks perfect for them. I would love to win it!
My first two kids were Late readers and both really struggled all the way through 2nd and 3rd. I would LOVE to help my 4 yo overcome the family history, and later his brother who is currently only 2. I am so glad we chose to keep the kids at home this year! We are loving it.
My daughter is 4 1/2 years old and has been wanting to learn to read. Since I’m homeschooling her I was very interested in this giveaway! If we win, I’ll get to use this with her younger brother too!
I would love to win this! It would be very beneficial for me as I am homeschooling our five year old! Thanks!
I am going to be new to homeschooling next year and am overwhelmed by the curriculum choices! So glad to hear a positive review and would love to use it with my 5 year old.
My 5-year-old is desperately wanting to learn to read as his older sister is an avid reader. I’ve been looking for good resources…this sounds great! Thanks for sharing!
No one taught me how to read, I just started doing it when I was maybe 4. So I don’t have a clue how to teach my children how to read. My first grader reads very well who learned how to from her kindergarten teacher, but with my 3 year old who I will at least be homeschooling till kindergarten or maybe after if we move. So any extra help is needed.
I would love to teach my 4.5-year-old to read! Thank you so much for the opportunity, and the information!
I hope we win! My 5 year old will love this!
I have been looking for a great reading program to teach my soon to be 5 year old to read and then hope to use it with my soon to be 4 year old. My son has been grasping the letter sounds and is so excited. Hope to win this program it would really help.
This would be a great addition for our home school curriculum. We have 4 kids that could get some use out this program!
This would be wonderful for our family as we’re just starting out with our daughter. Great tools are always a great blessing! All the best to you!
This would be fabulous. My 4 yr. old wants to learn to read so much! This would really be a big help.
I’m about to start homeschooling next week, partly because my son isn’t doing well reading. My goal for the end of this yr is to get him caught up!! this would be a Great tool!
I plan on homeschooling our children, so that’s how I would use this product if I won!
Thanks for a great giveaway!
I homeschool this looks so great for my boys! I’m always on the look out for good ways to learn to read. Thanks!!
I teach second grade in a low income school. Two other teachers on my grade level and I have decided to do a block of leveled group reading. I will be teaching the lowest readers of our 3 classes. There are such different levels of readers just within this one group! Some can read the words but not fluently and some are still learning their letter sounds! This program would give me a starting point in which to better reach every student’s needs!