Reading Made Easy…after

I’ve used RME to teach 6 children to read (so far).  I asked the same question when my first finished it, and was told “now she needs to practice reading.”  It’s worked beautifully for my kids.  After I finish the book, that child and I take that same time each day to read together.  I’ve used things like the Pathway Readers, and actually, a BJU reading book (like 3rd grade level).  We alternate paragraphs, building up to alternating pages (I read a paragraph, then she reads the next, I read the next, etc.)  We really haven’t done any more with the phonics rules, and the oldest 4 are voracious readers (the younger 2 are newer at it, but I expect they will be also 🙂  )

I agree.  Just let them read a lot to build fluency.  It’s been amazing how well my son is doing.  Yeah, they may not “know” every phonics rule, but often we read in context anyway and they can often figure out a word just by what else is being said and the phonetic clues that are in that word that they do know. 

We did the same things the others have – lots of reading. When we finished RME, I sent Valerie an email asking this very question; She was so kind to answer and sent a little book she wrote titled”The Picnic Ants” for my ds to read. He then went directly to pathway readers afterwards – the transtion was beautiful. Also to reinforce phonics rules, we use Queens spelling through copywork. Valerie wrote a letter titled “After Reading Made Easy” which is found on her website http://www.valeriebendt.com/ReadingMadeEasyAfter9.aspx