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This is a good stage to do How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.  It's a great foundation.

OP here and we actually bought this book a few months ago, but it was a bust for us. We still offer it sometimes, but it's too dry for her. It feels like a chore for both of us.

What has worked better for us is a Highlights phonics workbook (it's one of the ones with the dry erase pages so she can do it however many times she wants) and the Hooked on Phonics app. We are not big on screen time but she'll do like a 5 minute game on there and it has really helped her with sounding out words and also figuring out long and short vowels, as well as blends. The key to both is that they are fun for her, especially in small doses, and there's this immediate payoff. Yesterday she did like 4 pages from the workbook and even chose not to do the writing practice (we don't push) but also sounded out like 5 new words I had no idea she could sound out (including "oo" words and some with the silent "e" at the end which had previously been really frustrating for her). It was exciting and made me realize she is really just about to cross a big threshold with reading.

Just putting this here for anyone else who has tried the 100 Easy Lessons and found it unhelpful. There are other ways to support reading skills that might work better for your kid. I'd seen that suggested a million times here and elsewhere and felt mildly defeated when we got it and my kid didn't like it at all.[/quote]

How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons was dry and felt like a chore for us too but if you just consistently stick with it, it absolutely works.  I had to balance it with listening to fun audiobooks after each lesson, which is something I still have to do with my fifth grader after we grind through his homework.  :) [/quote]
Yep.  Really dry, but kids learn to read really well. [/quote]

Only if they don't mind how dry it is. If you try to do 100 Easy Lessons with a kid who is bored to tears while doing it, you really do risk making them view reading as dull and rote, and would be better off using phonics games and workbooks.

Kids are different. Some kids will sit through a dull reading lesson every day for 10 minutes and won't mind. Some kids will complain and get distracted and look for any way or reason to get out of it. If you have the latter kind of kid, it doesn't mean you need to force them to change, and it doesn't mean they won't learn to read. It just means you need a different approach.[/quote]Kids should only be truly bored if they already know phonics and its not new content.  If it's new material, then there is stuff for their brains to learn. For that reason I'd never recommend it for a 1st or 2nd grader.  The start of K really is the latest or many of the early lessons will be too repetitive of stuff they already know.[/quote]

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