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Reveals the phonic program by which preschoolers as young as two begin reading at the Sidney Ledson Institute for Intellectual Advancement. This light-hearted, yet scientifically advanced, method permits parents, schoolteachers and even babysitters to quickly teach children of all ages to read.


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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 371
EAN: 9781412015547
ISBN: 1412015545
Label: Trafford Publishing
Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 242
Publication Date: 2004-01
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date: 2006-07-06
Studio: Trafford Publishing


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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Customer Rating:
Summary: Parents, this book is worth your consideration.
Comment: With this book alone (along with consistent application) I was able to teach my 4 year-old to read. That is my ultimate measure. I'm an educated man but have not experience teaching a young child. Undoubtedly, there are many other methods that accomplish the same objective but put simply, this one worked for us.

The key is consistency - 10 minutes, EVERY day. If you can commit to this, you will be amazed with the results.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The best program available! No more sightwords, guessing, and boring repetetive books!!!!
Comment: The program presented in this book is better than the others because it is pure phonics. The kids learn to read and then memorize sight words by reading them in context without even realizing it. The backbone of the program is a fun little game that encourages children to practice decoding words. They play the game for tokens, stickers, treats, or privileges. I had to limit it for my kids they liked it so much. The book also encourages puppets as fellow students to add humor. Both of these tactics made the program a blast. I made a list of the 32 sounds to introduce, hung it on the wall and we started playing the game. We added a new sound whenever my child got really confident on the old ones.

How fast does it work?

In three and a half months my 5 year old daughter went from knowing most of the alphabet and sounds to being able to read like a second-grader. She spent an hour a day the first three weeks and about 20 minutes a day thereafter. I never taught her sight words, but she passed all the kindergarten sight words off the first day only struggling on "said" and "been", she had inadvertantly memorized the rest from reading so much.

In three and a half months my just-barely 4 year old son who knew only one letter and no sounds has graduated from level one of the Sidney Ledson program, He can read 120 words easily and has the building blocks for hundreds more if they were presented to him. I think that puts him at late kindergarten or early first grade reading level. He spent about 5 minutes a day about 5 days a week. At this rate, (5 minutes a day) he will be reading on a second grade reading level when he starts kindergarten.

Pros of this method

*Don't have to memorize a single sight word (my kids can't/won't do that).

*Kids never think of learning to read as any more difficult than learning the alphabet song.

*Kids don't develop dislexia (disordered reading), this is one of only two methods I have found that addresses this issue and what to do about it.

*This method helped me spot reading problems that had been invisible with my daughter while she tried whole word method unsuccessfully and tearfully.

*When kids graduate from this program they don't have to read boring repetitive books that insult their intelligence. Repetitive books are whole-word method, my kids can really read and aren't limited to books with 30 or less words.

Cons of this method

*you use treats and candy to get them started, which have to be weaned away eventually (not too hard).

*because it is easy, it is soooo tempting to rush a child through the program too fast, keep telling yourself "easy and fun, don't push too fast"

*the program doesn't have lesson plans. That is because you don't need one, the program is really simple and basic, but some people see this as a negative.



Customer Rating:
Summary: wonderful book
Comment: I bought this book after checking it out from our library. My son is 5 and I am teaching him how to read using the methods described in this book. What I liked about it was that it uses the phonics system and is very systematic and logical in its approach, so that even the youngest preschooler can start to learn to read. For example, it starts with teaching the letter U, then P, then how to put them together to make UP. It builds gradually from there until eventually the child is reading sentences. It has lots of suggestions on games and activities to make it fun and motivating for the child who may be resistant to learning to read. It can be used for older children as well who may be struggling with reading. My son picked it up very quickly and made it through the first 100 words quite easily. It gets progressively more challenging with the sentences, so for my son, it is taking him longer to progress through those, and he gets frustrated at times, so I have to back off and give him more review time so he feels more successful. He is in an advanced reading group in his class in kindergarten and I feel like this book has made all the difference. Early literacy is such an important skill. I'm very glad I found this book. My only disappointment is that I was led to believe that by working with your child just 10 mins a day, they would be reading in 45 days. Well, after 45 days, my son is reading basic sentences, but has only made it about 1/2 way through the book. I think it really varies with each child and it is still a very good method to use.

Customer Rating:
Summary: The rezults are amazing - read my review to see
Comment: My daughter's name is Ada Cirlia, and I am writing about this book because Ada attended "The Sidney Ledson Institute" in Toronto for 4 years.
She learned to read using this method in less than 6 months through a part time program; and the most amazing thing is that she was only 4 years old!
Even today we still talk about the school- how good our choice was at that time and how kind and amazing the principal Mr. Sidney Ledson was.
As of today, Ada is a brilliant student among her peers- she is a very fast reader, can absorb a lot of information, and she can read up to 700 pages a day if she really likes the book! She proved this when reading, "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" in less than a day. Because of such a love for reading, she now has a very good memory, fine grammar, and she is a great writer with an excellent vocabulary!
Ada is now in 7th grade and she was awarded "Student of the Year" for overall achievements from "The North Hills School", which was ranked the 12th best collage-prep school in the U.S.A.
We think that after seeing Ada's performance, that it's worth trying to teach your child using this book. It will change their life!

Customer Rating:
Summary: Phonics-First for the very young!
Comment: Sidney Lesdon is a master teacher of very young children. His Institute in Canada has for many years helped young children reach their full potential. This is a very well thought out program that teaches step by step phonics to very young children. The programs starts out using capital letters because they are easier for the young child to distinguish and because they effectively destroy the word configuration outline that causes many students to read from the word shape instead of the letters: squeal is often confused with squirrel, but there is no such tendency with capitals: SQUEAL versus SQUIRREL. Students starting with this program will never develop whole-word dyslexia. The fun games are an especially delightful and helpful feature of the program.

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