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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. Thanks for all the great tips and suggestions. We do read to dd everyday. We prob read about three bookstore her. I wish we read to her more but we both work full time and there seems to be such limited hours in the day! I will probably purchase the book recommended. It does seem like she may be a little behind her peers, in that she still has trouble recognizing letters and really doesn't know their sounds. Thanks again. [/quote] IIRC, the 100 Lessons book starts right off with sounding out words and recognizing what letters do in various contexts. It will not teach her letters and their sounds.[/quote] This is not correct. Although I agree that it might be good to have some outside exposure to letters and sounds, the 100 lessons book teaches both. First, it teaches sounds. The first 10-20 lessons are all about sounds. Once a few sounds are taught, it starts to teach how to combine those sounds while still teaching more sounds. Usually the sounds are taught and reinforced for several lessons before being incorporated into the words. The learning and practice of individual sounds and simple sound combinations continues throughout the whole book, during each lesson, even when there is more concentration on reading stories, comprehension, and punctuation. 100 Lessons does not teach letters until sometime between the 70th and 80th lesson. The theory, which makes a lot of sense in my opinion, is that you actually don't need the letter names to learn to read and knowing them actually makes it a little confusing at first because it doesn't matter how you say a letter as much as the sound that it makes. But, but lesson 80, there is instruction on the names of the letters. This comes at the same time as capitalization rules are introduced. Often we think that you should learn letter names and capitalization concepts first, but 100 Lessons illustrates that these are actually more advanced concepts that are less integral to learning to read. This makes a lot of sense to me, but I don't know completely how it plays out if the child does not first recognize the letters, as I didn't start the book until after my child could identify her letters. Maybe someone else has insight.[/quote]
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