Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

I used it with my oldest and she became a great reader by lesson 70 so we put it down and started reading real books.  As far as teaching reading it is good, but my daughter has always been a terrible speller.  I have a friend who used it with her oldest two…who are also terrible spellers.  I can’t help but think there may be a link to bad spelling and 100 EZ.  My dd has come a long way just by using spelling wisdom this year.  I am using The Reading Lesson with my youngers and they are doing great!

I just wanted to chime in here.  I have used this with 5 children.  They have all learned to read very well with it.  I have only 3 at this point who do formal spelling and 2 are very good spellers and one is average(normal).  So I don’t find that it to be corlated.  Also, my friends have used it with there 5 children, 4 of whom spell and they are all average to high spellers.

I love the book, the layout and how it works.  Just wanted to let you know that others have used it and not had a problem with spelling.  I actually had learned some new things using it :0)

The videos on the Delightful Reading page might be helpful in comparing and contrasting the two approaches. One video walks you through Charlotte Mason’s approach to teaching reading; the other discusses her approach to phonics.

Hope this helps!

I’ve taught my 2 oldest to read with 100 EZ. My eldest,( age 21) is an excellent speller who only had dictation lessons for spelling. His spelling ability was always above average.  My eldest dd(age 20) was a poor speller. She did dictation lessons and a separate spelling program. We also did a lot of visual work while doing nature study via “Object Teaching”. This was something that I implemented after reading about it in a PNUE article. She is now an OK speller. She was a speech therapy kid and  late reader. I do not believe that 100 EZ and their spelling ability were related.

I attempted to use 100 EZ with my middle son. He had severe speech motor issues, and our primary means of communication for 5 years was sign language. 100 EZ was unsuccessful for him. CM style reading lessons were an epic failure for him. He needed a slow and systematic phonics approach to learn to read. I am doing the visual work  exercises with him and we have recently begun some simple dictation. I am also doing AAS with him. He is an OK speller. Spelling frustrates him. He is able to spell although it is tediously slow at times.

I’m currently using 100 EZ with my 6 yo. We do about 10 or so lessons with 100 EZ then spend a week doing CM style reading lessons. It is a too early to make an accurate assesment of her spelling ability. However, with the little bit of spontaneous writing it appears that her spelling is OK. Charlotte takes after her eldest brother and could probably learn to read with any method that I wanted to teach her.

100 EZ lessons is not a CM style reading program. However, it could easily fit into a CM style homeschool due to its short lessons. I obviously like it since it is the first resource that I implement with my children. In my family, spelling ability was more correlated with speech than reading method. Most families that I know who struggle with spelling with one or more children tend to have a parent who describes themselves as a poor speller.

HTH

It isn’t CM style.   I’d love to try Delightful Reading but got 100EZ lessons for free recently.

With my son, I used a different phonics program… and he bogged down after a while…. sounding out was SO much work.  It took a long time for him to learn how to blend…. so we started reading the old Dick and Jane books which had many repetitions of words… and he got much better at reading.  That said, he is 8 (about grade 3 age), and I’m not sure he reads at a grade 3 level.   He started the reading at about age 4

I did the same thing with my daughter, although she started at the age of 2 by listening in to her brothers lessons (then doing her own at a slower pace) – she is not 6 yet and reads at about the same level as her brother.

So then I was given 100EZ recently.  (I had looked at it in the library way back and thought no…. but when I got it for free I looked at it again.)

My 3yo started asking to learn how to read, so I got it out.   She is only on about lesson 20 so far – and we are taking it at her speed.  She asks for the lessons each day (she wants to do school like her brother/sister.)  And here are my thoughts.

I like how it has “tasks” that build up various skills needed to read (using phonics).   It uses rhyming.  It teaches them to say a word slowly, then say it fast.   It teaches the letter sounds.  It teaches how to sound-out a word.  It teaches how to find a word.   So far it seems to be working.  (Oh, we are skipping the writing exercies….)

I am sure the effectiveness will vary from child to child.