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I was just curious how others structure their lessons with The Reading Lesson. We are currently on Lesson 4. The book says that the lessons should be repeated for the first three lessons, but it doesn't say anything else regarding the lessons after Lesson 3. I've been making my DD repeat each lesson from the previous day with 2-3 new pages each day. We don't have lessons extend over 10-15 minutes. Should I continue to repeat lessons through the book or just move forward with new pages every day?

Also, for the words at the end of each lesson that are listed, should she know these words as "sight" words by the end of that lesson?

I don't always repeat, but at times I have repeated a page for three days in a row adding one new one each day and reviewing a couple. My wee fellow is getting close to truely clicking with reading so I am imagining it won't be much longer and he'll be going at a quicker pace and I'll just take it as it comes and see what we will do then.

For us, it just depends on how they are doing. My oldest two already knew their basic sounds when we started, so we did not repeat those pages at the beginning of the early chapters. However, when they were learning new words or reading stories, we would repeat. Even now, with ds finishing lesson 16 and dd in lesson 10, we repeat any pages that they have difficulty with (i.e. Struggle with more than 2 or 3 words on the page). Ds does 2-3 pages a day and usually one of those is a repeat. Dd does 1 (sometimes 2) pages a day and usually repeats that page before moving on. The program flows so nicely that it has really been intuitive as to when to slow down and when to pick up the pace. HTH.

We usually do each page 2 times. (Some stories she likes to read over and over and I let her.)We are on lesson 8 and we do 2-4 pages a day, depending on how much reading energy she has! I start with the new page and end with a repeat so we end with the easier read! That leaves dd with a more accomplished feeling.

As we were going through a lesson, dd would highlight any words/sentences she had trouble with. Then each day we would quickly go back over all the highlighted material for the whole lesson, then do our new pages (she was up to 4 new ones per day by the end). It worked well for us!

Erica

I didn't repeat any lessons, just moved ahead 2 pages every day.