The Reading Lesson question?

[yayadaisy]

We are on lesson 14 in the reading lesson and it is going really quite well. My children are 7 and 9 they (my 9 year old has some learning issues with reading and writing, and my 7 year old is right on track!) Anyway I am wondering for those who have done it before have you ever just started reading the stories only? Both my kids are painfully slow when it comes to the pages where there are just sentences. But when it is a story they go rather fast and do a good job! I was thinking about skipping those pages and we would still do the begining pages with the sounds and the ones where you learn things we will just skip the pages with sentences only. I don't think it would hinder them at all. They do just fine with reading stories for some reason it's those pages with non-sense sentences that they struggle with. The do it but oh so slowly then we can go on to the story and boom they breeze right through it. I know some of the words are in the sentences that they read in the story, but even when we have skipped the pages they still get through the story just fine. Has anyone done this? What are you thoughts?

Sheila mom to six blessings

[water2wine]

I am finishing it with one and I mean she is on lesson 20 and the other is on lesson 13. They are 5 and 7, the youngest one is on lesson 13. I have skipped nothing and I mean nothing. The results have been wonderful. We do the CD and everything in that book. My kids pick up McGuffy readers and read them for fun and do copy work on them. They are going to the library and getting I can read books on level 1 and 2. I absolutely love that system. For us we have skipped nothing and my kids are coming out strong. Not only that having used so many other phonics systems with my struggler who is older and still having to put tons of effort in there I find it a complete blessing. My Reading Lesson kids come to me and beg to do it, honestly. To me it is like magic and I do not mess with it. That is the only perspective I can give you. I know other will have different experience that might be more helpful but just wanted to share with your our experience.

[pollo_la]

I have not used The Reading Lesson, BUT, my gut reaction is that you should not leave it out, especially if it is something they struggle with. Afterall, in the end you want them to be GREAT readers... not just readers. I have a thought as to why they may struggle more with the sentences too. Perhaps when they are reading the stories they are using some context clues to help them figure out the words. To some extent that is fine, but it is not something that we can always rely on. Am I making sense? Anway, that was just my thought.

[LeAnna]

The Reading Lesson has been like magic for us too. My dc are 5.5 and 6.5 and one has finished and moved on to Emerging Readers and is reading like she has finished the Emerging Readers. She is reading on her own, the Thorton Burgess books. My other 5.5 year old is 3/4 of the way through The Reading Lesson and is reading like crazy books from the library. It is such a simple way of teaching how to read... no fancy or expensive equipment. We love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We also have the computer lessons. We love that too!! I would highly recommed it to anyone. It's amazing that what would potentially take 3 years in a public school, kids can learn in 1 year. You, by all means, can take longer, because it's designed to move at different paces. But, for us, we have worked through it in about a year.

LeAnna