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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Reading to your child an hour or every half-hour every night is the best method.

Sooner or later your kid will read through osmosis, but first ensure your child has "sight words" down pat.  A lot of issues can develop if the kid isn't well-versed in sight words first.  YouTube has a lot of great videos where the child can read along and they're free.

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I could not disagree with this more strongly! Read, yes, but not so they will pick up reading by osmosis.

I have one older dyslexic and I'm using All About Reading with my youngest. If being read to worked for all kids, my first child would have been the most skilled reader in the school, but there are plenty of children for whom it doesn't work like that. Interestingly, I was an osmosis reader, but my spouse was not. The main thing is you are seeing an issue of some kind. Please trust your gut.

I would recommend joining the All About Reading support group on Facebook, or just email them. They give extremely detailed support. He might need to start with pre-reading. One benefit of that is you can get the Ziggy puppet which will help him buy in. He's not formally used in the numbered levels, but you can still use him.

I recommend pre-reading even if he almost passes the placement test (I think mine missed 2 or 3 and that was the advice when I asked what to do), because as someone else said the letter and sound recognition need to be automatic. I can't speak to LOE, although there are some pros/cons mentioned of you search the AAR Facebook group. "Fun" is certainly a pro for AAR. Their website should have sample games also. The curriculum is scripted so you can learn the rules along with him. (But flexible also-- we repeat games and pend more or less time on concepts as needed.)

AAR recommends 20 minutes a day, so it should fit with your constraints. It's also very flexible. The books seem more "real" than BOB books, while still being fully decodable. Many have a "twist" at the end (full disclosure, just finished the first of three readers in level one). A thing I like is the pictures don't automatically tell the story in most cases. For instance a few animals "sat" in a van then the next one "fit" in the van. It helps to tell if they are trying to guess using patterns and context.

A huge help in pre-reading is saying the alphabet while pointing to the letters on a poster. You could just do this on your own. My child knew all the letters (loved letters, pointed them out everywhere), but this really helped with automaticity. Kind of surprising how hard it is to do it without singing and how much singing gets you "off" from attending to the letters on LMNOP, etc.

I just asked my five year old what they like about AAR. They said, "Everything because it's so fun."

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