The first people who signed up for our newsletter and free online course are now half way through the reading programme having reached the twelfth and thirteenth letter. The results from the feedback that we are getting are very good and now there is the opportunity to actually buy the course for those whose children are moving forward more quickly. Some will still stay with the rhythm of one letter a week and there is nothing wrong with that at all. However some parents have been asking for a more rapid pace, something not possible in the autoresponder sequence, and now you can.

There are two ways to receive the whole course, Digital Download or USB. The course from a digital download which is in a zip file is $47, the USB version is $67 and also includes the access digitally so you can start straight away. All you need to do is sign up by sending a mail to lynne@teachyourchildtoread.net labelled “DIGITAL DOWNLOAD” or “USB”. We will then send you a payment request using Paypal which you can pay for with your own Paypal account or using a credit card. (As a special offer before Christmas we are going to give you two USB’s for just $20 more, $87 to get the course yourself and also give your friend a copy so that you can work through it together.

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I work at Cambridge House Community College in Valencia. We have just made our first order of Usborne Books for the school and as a result the school gets 60% of the value of the order in free books and they can choose any they want from our catalogue. The school is excited by this free source of books and the parents are ecstatic because they now have a source of books that help them when they are helping to teach their children to read at home.

If you work at a school in Spain or are a parent of a child in a Spanish International School and want to help your school to get more resources for free as well as have an income stream in commissions for the person who becomes the Usborne representative at the school then just get in touch with lynne@teachyourchildtoread.net to find out more about how your child’s school can benefit from the tie up with Usborne books.

You can organise book fairs and special offers to help support the parents and children attending the school and at the same time you get a solid business working from home to complement and get extra income streams which is always nice in the current economic climate.

Well emergency over and Anita now well an truly recovered if you take out her now mortal fear of anyone in a white coat. I thought it was time to show what we are aiming for with the course and this website.

The Idea of Teach Your Child To Read

I have embedded a couple of videos and placed a few links here so that if you are hoping to teach your child to read you can see what we are aiming for. The videos of children reading at level way above their age are just there to show that it is possible using the systems we describe in the home study programme that you can sign up for on this page in the sidebar.

However, bear in mind that there is no secret formula here, these children can read because they have been taught to do so. It takes time and patience. In a recent book, Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell describes how there is no such thing as genius usually, just extreme practice with “genius” generally being born out of 10000 hours of practice. For these children we are not talking about genius, just allowing them to find out how to read using the tools provided and some care and attention at home. The ability to teach your child to read depends on you the parent. Use it.

(The expression in her reading is great even though it is obvious she is very familiar with the book)

Some links include our own squidoo and hubpages here

Squidoo Lens with top ten tips for teaching your child to read

Hubpage with more great information.

In both of these links you can also explore related pages by other authors on the subject of teaching children to read.

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1) Welcome to The Site

2) Usborne Books

3) Get Our Free EBook on Helping Your Child To Read

And don’t forget to share this with others using the links below on Facebook, Twitter and so many other social networks

We were hoping to expand this site very quickly but things have overtaken us a bit in the last couple of weeks. My daughter was taken ill a week and a half ago and had to be taken home from school. Two days later and with a very high temperature she was taken to the health centre and they sent her straight to the hospital. She has now been in there for 8 days with bacterial pneumonia on a antivirus drip. They discounted swine flu after two days in an isolation ward but her lungs were still congested.

Now she should be out on Monday and later in the week we will be able to start updating the site but here in Spain the parent stays with the child at all times in the hospital and acts as the nurse would in the UK so between myself and my husband Graham if we have not been in the hospital we have been at home looking after the other little one and acting as a taxi for the older one.

So back to normal next week with more information and a great announcement about the upcoming membership area of the site which for a nominal fee of $5 per month is going to include interviews with teachers telling how they work with children to help them read, the online sight words reading course, regular product reviews and discounts, book recommendations and offers and a whole lot more. And you know what, the first month is going to be free or just one dollar for trying it out.

Thanks for your understanding

Lynne

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In order to get you into the swing of what we are offering with our free online reading course for children, I have freed up the password links for the first letter, S. On the three pages which you can find below you will find introductions of how to teach the letter sounds, practice phonics activities and games and a whole lot of links and resources.

S – The First Page

S – The Second Page

S – The Third Part

Firstly, make sure you download the fonts to your computer (You can find them and the instructions for putting them on your computer here.) Then go into the three posts where you can find and download the materials. Once you have them then print them out and get used to using them. Also remember to download the application for the Jolly Phonics Songs and Actions

If you are convinced, and you will be, then sign up for the newsletter and bit by bit you will get the rest of the course at a speed to complement the average child’s development. “Teach Your Child To Read” through me, Lynne, will be here to help guide you through the materials.

*** If You Are Already On The Mailing List Then When You Recieve The Mails For The Letter S They Will Have the Passwords On. They Can Be Ignored For Now But All Future Letters Will Have Individual Passwords and Will Not Be Freed Up. As I Said In Mail Number 9 Download Links Will Be On The Actual Mails As Opposed To Pages. ***

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Here is some good advice on teaching your child to read from a fantastic author – one of my favourite childcare experts – Elizabeth Pantley. It’s from her book ‘Perfect Parenting: The Dictionary of 1,000 Parenting Tips’.

How do I encourage my child to read?

My child doesn’t like to read, and will only do the bare minimum required to get through his homework. I know that fluency in reading is important to his success in school. How do I encourage him to read more often?

Think about it:

You’re right to be concerned. Reading is the key to success in all school subjects. With a bit of creativity you can help your child enjoy reading more, and spend more time doing it!

Make it fun.

Purchase or borrow a stack of “fun” books. Choose books that will be relatively easy for your child to read, in other words, those that are slightly below his level of reading ability. Choose topics based on your child’s interests: baseball, horses, sleepover parties, wild animals, insects, etc. Pick a mystery, a joke book, books about current movie stars or athletes, even comic books. Don’t comment about the books; simply leave them lying on the table where your child is sure to see them. To become a great reader, a child needs lots of practice. If you can find the types of books your child will be interested in reading, he’ll get the pure practice he needs to make other, more complex, reading easier.

Let him browse the library:

Allow your child to get his own library card. Take him to the library and teach him how to use the computers and the wide variety of resources available. Many libraries offer classes to teach kids how to use the resources. Make a routine visit to the library, and make sure you go when you’re not rushed, so he can take time to explore.

Pick the right computer games:

Take advantage of your child’s love of computer games to purchase those that require a lot of reading to play the game. Avoid those that are simply computerized video games.

Encourage bed-time reading:

Buy your child a bedside reading lamp, or a tiny book light. Tell him that from now on, he must be in bed by a specific time (say 8:30) and that he can either sleep or read. Most kids will do anything rather than go to sleep, so there’s a chance you’ll create a new bedtime reading habit.

Have reading material available.

Many children will read when they are sitting alone having a snack, or if they have a few minutes of unplanned free time. Put a box of books and magazines near the kitchen table so that reading material is accessible.

Read to your child.

Often, once children learn to read independently, parents stop reading to them. This change of routine causes great sadness to a child who has come to love falling asleep as you read. Even a teenager will enjoy being read to if you pick books that pique his interest. Select books together, and make sure they’re ones you enjoy as well, so your enjoyment will come through as you read to them.

Check it out.

Some children don’t like to read because they have poor eyesight or an undetected learning disability. Look for signs that there is a problem. Does your child rub his eyes after reading? Complain of a headache? Become easily frustrated or angry while trying to read? If you notice any of these problems, make an appointment with your pediatrician to have your child’s health checked out, or with an optometrist for a complete eye exam.

Excerpted with permission by McGraw-Hill Publishing from Perfect Parenting (McGraw-Hill 1998).

Extra Reading

http://www.needleworkspictures.com/ocr/blog/?p=395

http://www.bookpassage.com/blog/?p=388 A lovely story about reading in a book store.

We have been threatening to put the links page of “Teach Your Child To Read” up for a couple of weeks now and finally we have compiled what we consider to be a pretty definitive list of resources to help you in your search for things to do with your child to help them to read. More will come as we discover them of course. Remember though to bookmark this site and keep referring back because we will be explaining how all of this information knits together in order to make the best progress with your child when reading. To see the links page use the navigation tabs at the top of the page. It is next to the contact us button.

Sign up for our newsletter or use the RSS reader on the right (You know, the one with the little orange man with a newspaper who looks like he is using the toilet) to keep in touch. Our newsletter sign ups in the first week have exceeded expectations and the feedback from those who have signed up has been brilliant, thanks for that.

One of the major areas in which we are looking to be useful here at “Teach Your Child to Read” is the expat market. Many expats send their children to international schools and nurseries/kindergartens but there are many who don’t. They want their children to fit into the local culture and the first and most obvious step is to go to the local schools in the local language.

This leaves them with a quandary of course because they don’t want their child to “fall behind” other children of their age in case they move back to their home country or onto another country where English is the lingua franca.

Here is where this website can help you so much. The clear instructions from “Teach Your Child to Read” on our Phonics Reading Course will help you to help teach your child to read. There are two main areas of the online reading course, the phonics instruction, how to teach using the resources we provide, and the links to other resources that complement our approach and provide a solid grounding in teaching children reading.

There is no doubt there are thousands of places and resources both on and offline that you can find to help you teach your child to read. However many of them are at best just a diversion. We have sifted through to find the best links, check out our links page when it goes live later this week, the best resources, our own and recommended resources, and the clearest instructions for using those resources so that you as a parent, and teacher in this case, feel comfortable and confident in what you are teaching your child.

Have no doubts that this online course in teaching reading through phonics, sight words lists and phonemic awareness activities along with the backup and the forum which will be up soon is the perfect start for your child’s reading journey.

Follow our course for free through the autoresponder or order it online and you give your child the advantages in and out of the classroom that you could not imagine having done before. (And remember to tell your friends too)