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“Teach Your Child to Read
in 100 Easy Lessons”
Because nearly every child, if given the chance,
is able to learn—and to learn well.
Direct Instruction (DI)
Precision Teaching (PT)
Other Things
“Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” is a book published by Simon and Schuster, not by the SRA Division of McGraw-Hill, which publishes most of the DI materials. It has not been revised since its original publication in 1985, nor is there any particular reason it should be, other than that the appendix, which lists good children’s books to be sought, lists mostly books which are now out of print.
You can purchase this at the Association for Direct Instruction, http://adihome.org, and thereby help support the work of the Association, or you can find it on Amazon for less and used copies for still less, or perhaps find it in your local library for free.
The book has an extensive preface on how to use the book. It represents a compressed version of Reading Mastery I and II, intended for use in Kindergarten and First Grade. This book, intended for use by parents of young children, has been used successfully with even younger children, with illiterate adults, within classrooms where a school either couldn’t or wouldn’t purchase the regular DI materials from SRA, and with children who have previously been taught poorly, and needed to start over from the beginning, rather than using the “Corrective Reading” DI program which SRA sells. A look at this book and its preface will show you how DI works.
“Funnix I and II” do not exactly replicate 100 Easy Lessons, but are made for accomplishing the same purpose. These are intended for use on a computer, with adult supervision and input. They are not disks that can be simply operated while Mom does something else. The material covered in Funnix I is roughly the same as 100 Easy Lessons, but there are differences. Students going from 100 Easy Lessons straight to Funnix II will miss out on some important things. Owen Engelmann detailed what is covered in Funnix I that is not in 100 Easy Lessons in an email to the DI discussion list in March 2007. You can have a copy of that for the asking. Funnix II goes farther than 100 Easy Lesson, as well.