re-reading techniques question

April 26, 2002

I personally don't recommend hooked on phonics for kids. It is too

boring. I used it on my older ds now 10 when he was 5(diagnoses

non-verbal LD) and had to modify a lot. They have tapes that repeat over

and over 3 X everything and he was irritated with it before we finished

the ABC tape. I ended up using it(I spent $250 on it) but never used the

tapes and the reading material was inappropriate for young child(problem

being can be used to teach adults too). Now had a friend with non-LD dd

borrow for a while and it worked so well she went out and bought it but

all in all I think there are much better reading programs out there for

kids. You might try home schooling resources for a funner one. Someone

was recommending a $12 book off Amazon she was having good luck with on

her apraxic child but there are a bunch of similar titled teach reading

books so I am no longer sure which one it is. Also my ds received

phonics game for gift and it seemed to have less to do with reading and

more to do with teaching spelling and spelling rules. Ds absolutely

hates it so we have used it little. I am saving it for younger apraxic

ds in case he needs extra work on spelling. Good luck finding something.

Dawn

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April 26, 2002

I've been using the book, " Teach Your Child to Read in 100 easy

Lessons " . I have taken a break on it, but it seems like an easy way

to teach kids to read. It's very repetitive, but it really

concentrates on the sounds.

It's also relatively inexpensive at $14. Here's the link to the

book on amazon:

-1/ref=sr_8_71_1/104-9094729-3277535

Amazon has sample pages, so you can look at a great deal of the book

before you buy it.

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