Teach Your Child to Read Review

  We are responsible for our own reading curriculum with Classical Conversations.  We used this for reading.  I'm not going to lie and say it was wonderful the whole time.  SM really enjoyed it at first.  At Lesson 74 the book took away the reading hints and SM had a complete meltdown.  After explaining that this was how other books would look she eventually got back to doing the lessons (although still with a fight).  The Lessons have a sound review, saying the words/sounds, rhyming section, reading sentences/stories, picture comprehension, word finding, and sounds writing.  We did not use the sounds writing section because I thought that would be too confusing since I was working with her on spelling and writing in other areas.  There were some Lessons that just seemed too long and we would split those days up.  At the end of the book there are recommendations for what to read next.  Now we go to the library and pick out leveled readers for her.  I've also added a few videos of SM reading from Lesson 100.