Lily and I have completed 8 lessons in the book/course ‘How to Teach your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons’ by Siegfried Engelmann. The lessons are pretty short, lasting all of 10-15 minutes (we are not doing the writing portion).
Lily starts off in the lesson delighted to be doing school with Mom. She is so focused on the snuggling down, announcing which lesson number we are on that she usually claims not to know the first letter or two she is to sound! After some minor prompting she can rattle of the sounds of m, s, t, short e, long a, while touching the 'ball' underneath and running her finger down the arrow. She can do the 'say it fast' section pretty good (I say aaattt slowly then she is to say it fast) but likes to run her finger over random words on the page as if those are the letters she is sounding out. I find the rhyming section a little difficult (rhyme 's' with 'en' to get 'sen' - I just don't see the rhyme in that) so we fly through it without much thought. She is geting to put letters together to make basic words. By the end of the lesson she is ready to move on.
Even though she is not reading she has sounded out her first words 'mat' 'me' without realizing that is what she is doing. And this past week she has become more interested in words asking us to spell her friends names and spell some other random words. So something is stirring.
