Woo hoo!!  I have just (last week) completed The Reading Lesson with my children and THEY CAN READ!!  Ds-8 had 18 mths at PS from age 5, and came away from that reading at his 'age level', but only able to read very basic stuff - lame early readers etc, and HATED reading with a passion.  So after I brought him home, we took a little over a year off formal reading and writing 'lessons' to allow him to learn to LOVE reading and writing again.  Dd-7-next-week had 2 months at PS and couldn't read much at all...I had got half way through Learn-to-read-in-100-Easy-Lessons with her, but she hated it.   

We started using The Reading Lesson in the 2nd week of July on the recommendation of my good friend Cynthia Hancox  (author of the awesome and FREE ebook Goodbye Chaos, Hello Peace) and they both just whizzed through it! 

We used stickers as a motivation & reward for completing lessons and mastering the accompanying words lists (which worked really well...it's amazing how much motivation a cute sticker can be!).

As well as getting a sticker on their progress chart for each lesson completed, they also got to choose a sticker for their sticker albums.

Now the children are each choosing a short story to read to me each day - they usually choose a story from The Aesop For Children - with Pictures by Milo Winter (also available here as a free printable online ebook) which is an excellent book that we also use for narration (I would have to say that this book - which I brought cheaply 2nd hand, is by far our BEST, and most used, educational resource - apart from the Bible of course!).  It has nice large print for easy reading with a great balance of words that they know and words that challenge them (without frustrating them).

It is such a good feeling to have both my school-age children now reading well!

Love & blessings

 Ang

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Posted by 40winkzzz

Life & homeschooling are so much nicer when the kids can read. Good job, Mom! It's *your* accomplishment too! Sounds like you found a curriculum that really worked well for them! And hmmm, must be you're keeping them away from that "teavee", too! :-)

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