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Can The Reading Lesson be used with an older student who needs help with certain areas?

Has anybody used it before as a remedial reading program?

I'm going to give you a bump up to the top. I'm hoping someone who uses TRL will chime in on this. My favorite phonics program for remediation would be Phonics Pathways.
Mel

I have Phonics Pathways, but it seems like its hard to use. I'm just wondering if there is something easier.

How do you use it for remediation?

Phonics Pathways is designed to be used through 4th grade, and I'm only at the K/1 level now, so I've not actually used it for remediation with older kiddos. I bought it b/c I just could not get my ds past blending cvc words and felt like I was beating my head against a wall with him. It has really worked to get him past the painfully slow blending that he was doing, to a more fluent (and less painful for me) level.

I just have him read one page a day, and sometimes we do the same page for 2 days. I then have him choose a few of the words, or phrases, or sentences from the page we just read to copy in his notebook. Then we will get our little whiteboards and markers out and I will call out some of the words for him to spell, just to see what he remembers.

It has taken us awhile to get through the book b/c I want to make sure he has the skills down pat. In the front material of the book, there is a chart that tells approximate grade levels you are on when you reach a certain page, and we are just getting to the 2nd grade level....something I thought would never happen!

I plan to continue using Phonics Pathways along with the emerging readers this year.

Something else I do, to make the page less daunting, is use a blank sheet of paper to cover the page and just move it down one line at a time....not quite so overwhelming that way!

I also took my son to the optomitrist and discovered he did need a pair of reading glasses. Have you had his eyes checked in awhile? He's right at the age when vision problems can begin.
My ds still struggles and cannot stand to read, so I feel your pain. I hope you do find something that will help.

Ladies,

For older, remedial readers you could use Phonics Pathways, as Melanie suggested. It does work well for that situation.

Another option to explore would be Reading Reflex, which I used in my classroom teaching days for 3rd and 4th graders (to go back and redo phonics in a different way for those who just didn't click with it the first time around).

Reading Reflex is actually not designed for the classroom (we adapted it to use in the classroom setting), and we've talked to homeschoolers who've also had good success with it, so it's worth checking out. It is not a perfect method either, as the authors of the program would have you believe, and the chapters at the beginning are a bit long in the explanation department, but it is a new look at an old problem that does work quite well with older students. Here's the link to it at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Reflex-Fo ... 378&sr=8-1

One other option (for kiddos with learning disabilities) is the following spelling and reading guides:
http://www.readingandspelling.org/

Some other moms will probably chime in with their favorites as well.

Blessings,
Carrie

Thanks for the replies and advice. I will probably use Phonics Pathways, as I already own that and it wouldn't be an intimidating change for him.

We'll be using Preparing in the fall, and I want to make sure that he is ready for it. I guess I'm stressing because he really needs help and practice, and I want this transition to HOD to be easy. We're starting a new currriculum with a baby coming all around the same time...blah!

THanks again.