How to teach your child to read in 100 lessons ?

[IloveDisneyxxx]

Hello all !

Please tell me what you think of this book ?

My daughter is 7 and has Autism, which comes with the language difficulties she has. She has been having trouble learning how to read. She aced through learning how to say out the phonetics but had trouble blending. She wasn’t able to hear the word unless I was saying it.

After many months, I came across “How to teach your child to read in 100 lessons” and she’s progressing very well ! The book uses a technique called sound blending, so rather than chopping up sounds /b/a/d/. You sound blend then /b/aaaaaaaa/d/. From this approach my daughter could hear the sound and like I said, progressed really well.

However, my daughter’s teacher does not agree with the approach. She said it’s confusing her to blend one sound together. She’s worried my daughter won’t be able to pick up the individual Sounds by sound blending. But when I asked my daughter to spell “bed” for example, using the sound blending approach, she was able to spell it correctly.

I don’t know what to do. I thought my daughter hit the holy grail as she’s been having trouble reading and we’ve finally found something that works. But I don’t want to set her up for literacy difficulties !

Please tell me your views regarding this approach and sound blending ? I don’t know if I’m setting up my daughter to fail.

[Toffeelatteplease]

A lesson in Peter and Jane only teaches maybe 5 words, 500 words won't get you far

And phonics teaches you to read without understanding. (Also flippant)

We can both retreat to well trod criticisms of both methods. It's not terribly helpful. Whatever method is generally used doesn't matter hugely, the fact is there are a small number of kids for whom phonics will frustrate reading. If you are evangelical about phonics this will probably be difficult to accept

[Feenie]

But you're talking about two different methods to teach decoding - neither teach understanding.....that has to be taught alongside whatever method you choose.

[Want2bSupermum]

I have two ASD DC who are both reading using teaching methods from the late 60s early 70s. Works for maths too. My eldest went from failing to performing 3 grades ahead when I threw out the Singapore maths books.

[Want2bSupermum]

My ASD kiddies are 6 & 4.

[OutyMcOutface]

Most people read and write in full words anyway so it really doesn't matter what method you used. So for exmalpe msot poelpe can raed wdros splleed incrrocetly so lnog as btoh the frist and lsat ltteer are in palce and all ohetr letetrs are persnet reargdsles of odrer.

[GetOutOfMYGarden]

If it works it works. Reading is a really essential skill, learning to read using a certain specific method isn't.

[catkind]

That's a bit of an urban myth I think outy.
www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/cmabridge/

Just don't understand why anyone is trying to sell whole word methods to a parent whose child has just clicked with phonics.

[HarveySchlumpfenburger]

It’s been a while since the Cambridge anagram rubbish has been brought up.

There are a very very small number of children who won’t learn to read using a phonics based approach. It doesn’t sound like the OP’s child is one of those though.

[Equimum]

That sounds exactly like we were told to teach DS by his teacher - essentuating the middle sound. It really sped up his hd tests sing of blending.