Name: Teach Them Diligently (Branson)
Start: 2025-05-15T00:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-05-17T23:59:59-05:00
Location: Branson, MO

Tagged: Before We Read, First Steps, Helping Yourself, Learning through Sounds, pathway readers, PrePrimers

This topic has 5 replies, 5 voices, and was last updated 12 years, 6 months ago by Hindsfeet.

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April 30, 2012 at 2:39 am
eviesmomma
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I’m taking a look at scheduling things for next school year, and I’ve purchased the “primers” for Pathway Readers: Learning Through Sounds 1 & 2, Helping Yourself, Before We Read, and First Steps. How have you scheduled these to fit into a 1-year timeframe? I’m using them with a 6yo who is actually just going into Kindergarten, so I hoped to use these THIS year and then do the other 1st grade books “Days Go By” and “More Days Go By” when he is in 1st grade the following year.
I wondered if anyone had a line-up they used? Or how many lessons per day? Right now, I’ve come up with Before We Read 2 lessons a day until done. (32 lessons) Then pick up with Learning Through Sounds 1 followed by 2, doing 2 lessons a day. (About 88 lessons) Then we would do First Steps, taking 2 days for each lesson’s reading and workbook pages. (20 lessons) For Helping Yourself, I’m planning on just having him do a couple of sheets on Friday for fun, since it’s basically cut-and-paste work, coloring, etc. (88 lessons) The teacher’s guides don’t really give you an idea on how to present the books in order, and I just wondered if anyone has cracked the code! Thanks!
April 30, 2012 at 6:36 am
MamaSnow
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I haven’t used the workbooks, so I can’t comment on that. I had already taught my dd to read (not using any particular curriculum), and we started First Steps after that, so we just read through the readers together for practice and spot-teaching as necessary with sounds she still struggled with. We read 1/2-1 story together each day. If you are planning to use the workbooks to actually teach your child to read (not sure what exactly they cover, since I’ve not seen them), I would encourage you not to try to schedule a certain number of lessons each day (or even make it a goal to try to finish everything in a year), but rather to take it at the child’s pace, moving on to the next concept/sound as they seem ready to tackle it. I found in teaching my dd to read we’d be plugging along really well for awhile, then we’d slow down to a snail’s pace for awhile, then things would start clicking again and she’d take off…and so on, if that makes sense.
HTH some,
Jen
April 30, 2012 at 9:15 pm
Christine Kaiser
Participant
@eviesmomma
we are just finishing up the first year with the PW readers/workbooks. First let me say that my DD7 absolutely LOVED the readers and is also enjoying the workbooks. We got the next three books for Grade 2 already:).
To the scheduling, we did one day “Working with words” in the workbook and one day reading the story and thinking about the story. Once in a while I broke the pattern to do the additional excercises in the workbook. We started in the first week of August and finished all 3 readers/workbooks last week. Now we spend the last two weeks on finishing up all the addtional excercises. Instead of the PW readers my DD is reading now Aesop Fables for reading practise.
We started with First Steps though, since my DD went through K in a Private Christian School and already had the basic phonics down.
Blessings Christine
April 30, 2012 at 10:25 pm
4myboys
Participant
I agree that you shouldn’t try to schedule if you are using these to teach reading. Your child will set the pace. Trying to schedule things like this will only end up frustrating both of you.
Having said that, has anyone used Pathway readers or Language Arts kits for older elementary (grades 4-6)?
May 1, 2012 at 3:39 am
eviesmomma
Member
Thanks everyone! Yes, I’m aware to take things slowly and go at his pace. I’m just trying to get a “feel” for the layout and how to progress through the series of primer books. There are 5 of them all together, and I’m not sure what order to place them in is all. Two lessons a day sounds like a lot, but the books say to do at least 4, so I’m already planning on doing it slowly and will take your advice and move even slower if needed. 🙂
September 21, 2012 at 7:10 am
Hindsfeet
Participant
I know this is four months too late and you probably already figured it out, but the order is….
For the phonics:
Learning through Sounds I together with Helping Yourself (optional) followed by
Learning through Sounds II
For the pre-primers:
Before We Read followed by
First Steps
You can complete the phonics books first, then move on to the preprimers OR begin both phonics and the preprimers concurrently, depending on where your child is and what you feel they are capable of.