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The Reading Lesson: Review and Giveaway

February 15, 2013 by Jessica Streit

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As a teacher, I have known the benefits of early exposure to books for children. I read to both of my boys from the time they were very young and continue to do so now. My 10 year old still loves to spend time in bed with me reading each night, I hope that continues for years to come. I have multiple bookshelves full of books. We have gone to the library together on a regular basis for years. Books have been a companion to their lives.

This has helped me to raise an avid reader. A child who loves to read and devours books. A child who enters the world he is reading about and interacts with the characters. A child who will, hopefully be a lifelong reader.

I also have a child who struggles with reading. He has enjoyed being read to but never really took an interest in learning about the words held within. He is struggling to reach his grade level at school even with interventions.

I was happy to receive The Reading Lesson reading program for reviewing. As an intervention specialist, I have worked with remedial readers who struggle to grasp even the basics, much like my son. I have used a number of different programs to help my students improve but haven’t seen this one before.

The Reading Lesson is described as an “intelligent reading program for young children.” It is an award-winning, easy-to-use program that begins with the 5 most common letters of the alphabet and progresses in a logical manner.

The Reading Lesson offers a large book with 20 lessons that are all very easy to teach. Also available are three CD-ROMs and a DVD. One is an animated CD-ROM with reading lessons, another is a storybook CD-ROM with 40 short stories, and the final one is handwriting program that will teach your children how to print and write in cursive. The DVD features interactive activities that teach the sounds of the letters.

The lessons are similar to those that teachers use in school programs such as Reading Recovery and Title One. The letters are paired with visual cues that remind the child how to say a sound. This is not often used in a typical classroom but is very helpful for early and remedial readers.

I completed the first three lessons with my son who needs a great deal of support with reading. He moved through them very quickly as he does have some reading skills already. However, I did notice his confidence building as he went through the lessons. He read the passages quicker than he does the books he brings home from school. When it comes to reading, confidence is a huge component for success.

I intend to utilize The Reading Lesson as a supplement for my son to help him progress with reading. I believe The Reading Lesson would be a great program to use for homeschooling.  It would also be great to use for those parents who have a young children showing an interest in learning to read but aren’t sure where to start. You do not need to be a teacher for your child to be successful with The Reading Lesson.

The companion pieces are great support for the child. The writing lessons can be printed as many times as you need and progresses from printing to cursive and even practices writing words and stories.

The creators of The Reading Lesson, Michael Levin, M.D. and Charan Langton, M.S. have also created a series called Verbal Math Lessons. These easy-to-follow lessons help your child compute math in their heads. The child who can compute math mentally at a young age is sure to have greater success as they progress.

This series comes with two books, the first is for children in grades kindergarten to first grade. The second book follows that. I really like how quick and easy they are to use. In my own classroom, I have always had the children complete mental math problems for a few minutes each day in addition to our regular math lesson. Children need to be able to compute basic math facts quickly to complete more advanced problems and The Verbal Math Lessons are definitely going to help with that.

Another great item created by Mr. Levin and Mrs. Langton is Big Words for Little Kids. It is an advanced vocabulary lesson book for elementary school children. Building a strong vocabulary is very important to a child’s ability to write and communicate. Providing your children extra support with this book would be very beneficial to them for their reading as well. When children find larger words in a text, they often skip it. Doing that can sometimes change the meaning of the text.

By providing exposure to more advanced vocabulary words, your child will be more successful in reading more advanced texts, they will comprehend easier and their own writing will improve. The standardized tests that are being given to children in schools have a writing component that is scored based on, in part to the vocabulary that is used. This extra support with vocabulary will help your child be more successful on those tests as well.

The Reading Lesson and additional items from it’s creators are a great resource for homeschooling families, classroom teachers and any parent who wants to support their child’s school success. The price of $124.95 is reasonable for a kit of this size. I definitely think it is deserving of the awards it has one.

Enter to Win

Thanks to the folks at The Reading Lesson, one lucky 5 Minutes for Mom reader will win a package from The Reading Lesson which includes:

  • A copy of The Reading Lesson; 20 easy lessons to teach your child to read
  • The Sounds of Letters DVD
  • The Storybook CD
  • The Writing Lesson CD
  • “Teach me Handwriting” ebook
  • A copy of the Verbal Math Lesson

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Jessica Streit is a freelance writer and author of The Debt Princess. She shares her struggles with debt and the road to living a royal life on less.

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65 Comments

  1. Kendra says

    February 28, 2013 at 9:45 pm

    Be great for homeschooling , thanks

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  2. Gianna says

    February 28, 2013 at 12:08 pm

    It would help them read better.

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  3. tina reynolds says

    February 28, 2013 at 10:27 am

    my daughter is just learning to read and has been struggling a bit this might be just the thing to get her over the hump

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  4. susan smoaks says

    February 28, 2013 at 8:20 am

    our son is learning to read and this would be helpful!

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  5. Stephanie Larison says

    February 28, 2013 at 2:29 am

    It would help my daughter be prepared or kindergarden nex year.

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  6. Heather says

    February 27, 2013 at 8:27 pm

    i think this would give my daughter the interest and confidence to learn to read.

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  7. Angela E. says

    February 27, 2013 at 4:24 pm

    I would like to win this for my niece & nephew, thank-you.

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  8. Garrett says

    February 27, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    This is a awesome idea for getting them ready for any grade level.

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  9. Leslie L. Stanziani says

    February 27, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    I home school my 4 kids.My oldest son(10) struggles with reading.He has no interest in it.My youngest son who is 5 has just started.I am willing to try anything to help my older son.

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  10. nicole krutz says

    February 27, 2013 at 1:35 am

    this would be perfect for my 4 year old daughter who has a speech delay and learning issues

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  11. Candice Hull says

    February 27, 2013 at 1:21 am

    I’m working on getting my oldest ready for kindergarten in the fall and really don’t have any idea what I’m doing 😀 So this would help me a lot
    Thank you

    Reply
  12. Jill Myrick says

    February 26, 2013 at 11:38 pm

    I would love to have this to help teach my son before he begins school next year.

    jweezie43[at]gmail[dot]com

    Reply
  13. Don says

    February 26, 2013 at 8:04 pm

    All of these would be good learning tool’s for our child.

    Reply
  14. Rajani Patil says

    February 26, 2013 at 10:19 am

    This could really help our children as English is not our primary language that we speak at home.

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  15. Denise L says

    February 26, 2013 at 9:56 am

    My 3 year old is *this close* to reading! We’d love this 🙂

    Reply
  16. Lauren E says

    February 25, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    My daughter is learning to read now. She’d like this

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  17. Van says

    February 25, 2013 at 11:13 am

    I like that it has the sounds of letters DVD included.

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  18. lisa l. says

    February 24, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    it will keep them interested in reading.

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  19. Dawn K says

    February 24, 2013 at 7:38 pm

    This looks very thorough and interesting for children.

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  20. aimee mcpherson says

    February 24, 2013 at 6:51 pm

    It would definitely help them learn the basics and keep them engaged.

    Reply
  21. Ken Ohl says

    February 24, 2013 at 5:55 pm

    I would love to give this to my niece. Thankyou, Ken she loves learning

    Reply
  22. Sarah says

    February 24, 2013 at 5:14 pm

    My kids are 3 and 5 and really interested in letters and reading. This would be great to give them a head start.

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  23. sandra says

    February 24, 2013 at 3:41 pm

    it migh mke reading comprehension easier

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  24. Tamar says

    February 24, 2013 at 12:48 pm

    my son is showing interest in reading so i think he will be happy to have this

    Reply
  25. EMMA L HORTON says

    February 24, 2013 at 11:00 am

    THIS WOULD REALLY HELP MY GRANDCHILDREN…THEY WERE ADOPTED AND ARE SLOWLY LEARNING

    Reply
  26. Robert Pyszk says

    February 24, 2013 at 1:08 am

    This would help my son out because it seems like a great program

    Reply
  27. stephanie says

    February 23, 2013 at 11:34 pm

    This would help my youngest son learn to read

    Reply
  28. Lori D. says

    February 23, 2013 at 7:59 pm

    What great help this will be for the one’s entering school.

    Reply
  29. Sarah p says

    February 23, 2013 at 5:46 pm

    This would help my daughter develop her speech, and her skill for kindergarten

    Reply
  30. K.Pugh says

    February 23, 2013 at 11:28 am

    This would help my first grader practice, practice, practice.
    Thanks for the chance.

    Reply
  31. Charlene S says

    February 23, 2013 at 3:34 am

    This would help them to start writing.

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  32. Charity L. says

    February 22, 2013 at 8:39 pm

    This would help my daughter learn to read.

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  33. Kelly D says

    February 22, 2013 at 8:31 pm

    My daughter is starting kindergarten next year, so this would get her prepared.

    Reply
  34. Hillary S. says

    February 22, 2013 at 4:57 pm

    My son is dying to learn how to write in Cursive and also i have a Kindergartner who would love to jump ahead in reading!
    Thanks!

    Reply
  35. Audrey griffis says

    February 22, 2013 at 4:05 pm

    it woudl help both my kids my 3 year old son is starting to read sight words this woudl be great

    Reply
  36. Yesenia says

    February 22, 2013 at 3:56 pm

    They look like a fun way to teaching my kids to read.

    Reply
  37. Mona Evanochko says

    February 21, 2013 at 6:51 pm

    My Daughter, a former elementary teacher, now a stay home Mom. Is just starting to teach her daughter to read… she would LOVE this. Thank you for the Great Giveaway!

    Reply
  38. jessica says

    February 21, 2013 at 4:44 pm

    my youngest us ready to learn to read

    Reply
  39. april yedinak says

    February 21, 2013 at 10:34 am

    I have a young, struggling reader and this might be a fun way for her to work on her skills.

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  40. Darlene Ysaguirre says

    February 20, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    Well my Daughter Is 6 in the First Grade So I think this would be perfect in helping her on her reading journey to get more confident and familiar with reading.

    Reply
  41. Jeannie says

    February 20, 2013 at 9:30 am

    I think this would really help my son. He’s currently in the phase where he wants to read read read yet he’s unable to so maybe this program will help us start that.

    Reply
  42. HappyMomC says

    February 19, 2013 at 10:44 am

    This would help my daughter reinforce what she learns at school

    Reply
  43. Chuck says

    February 19, 2013 at 10:36 am

    This would help the grandchildren prepare for the school years.

    Reply
  44. LaVonne says

    February 18, 2013 at 11:31 pm

    I am homeschooling my 5 year old. This will help with our curriculum!

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  45. lynn says

    February 18, 2013 at 3:07 pm

    I have a second grade son who is an excellent reader, but has challenges with fine motor skills, including handwriting and until last year received OT services for fine motor skills. The “Teach Me Handwriting” ebook would be great for him. We are a homeschooling family and next year my son who will be in kindergarten will be ready to learn to read and I have been looking for a good program to use and then pass on to my nephews and it looks like this package would work wonderfully.

    Reply
  46. amyc says

    February 18, 2013 at 11:53 am

    Would help my daughter prepare for kindergarten.

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  47. Krissy says

    February 18, 2013 at 10:58 am

    This could really help my emergent 1st grade reader. And my 4 year old once she starts reading, too!

    Reply
  48. June says

    February 18, 2013 at 9:35 am

    It would really help with learning to read better.

    Reply
  49. Daiva says

    February 18, 2013 at 6:12 am

    It would help my son to learn to read!

    Reply
  50. Ally says

    February 18, 2013 at 2:00 am

    I’m a high school English teacher by profession, which means I don’t know how to teach my own wee ‘uns how to read! This would help!

    Reply
  51. chelsea says

    February 17, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    This would help boost my daughters reading so shes more confident

    Reply
  52. lana says

    February 17, 2013 at 10:40 pm

    hopefully learn how to read since he is 4

    Reply
  53. Natalia says

    February 17, 2013 at 6:43 pm

    With those books it would be easier to start to read and spell.

    Reply
  54. Addison Kat says

    February 17, 2013 at 4:52 pm

    My daughter is learning to read and I think this would help me to teach her how to read since I’m just kind of doing whatever since I don’t really know how to properly teach her.

    Reply
  55. Kathy Stevenson says

    February 17, 2013 at 11:43 am

    This would be great to help my 4 year old begin to read.

    Reply
  56. Kristi p says

    February 16, 2013 at 8:48 pm

    I have a almost 3 yr old and I’d love anything that would help me teach her to read early.

    Reply
  57. Tabathia B says

    February 16, 2013 at 7:48 pm

    It would be a great learning tool for my daughter

    Reply
  58. Karen says

    February 16, 2013 at 3:44 pm

    I homeschool my little girl and we are just starting to work on teaching her to read. These would be a great help.

    Reply
  59. Adriana says

    February 16, 2013 at 11:34 am

    These are great tools for my 2 and 5 year olds. For my 5 year old this can be of extra help and perhaps a different approach to learning to read. For my 2 year old it can be her first reading materials, besides some story books I have at home. Reading materials are very expensive, and right now I am not working, thus this giveaway can benefit my finances as well as my children’s learning.

    Reply
  60. Nicole says

    February 15, 2013 at 10:11 pm

    It would so help my little boy who is in Kindergarten and behind all ready. I haven’t figured out how he learns yet.

    Reply
  61. tana says

    February 15, 2013 at 9:08 pm

    My 4-year-old is interested in learning how to read since his older brother has become a fluent reader. He’d love these!

    Reply
  62. Beth Stabley says

    February 15, 2013 at 6:10 pm

    I will be homeschooling my daughter. This would be a great tool as I start teaching her to read.

    Reply
  63. anne says

    February 15, 2013 at 5:13 pm

    A great resource which would help learn their basics.

    Reply
  64. Nicole Robinson says

    February 15, 2013 at 4:26 pm

    I think this will keep my children’s interest, and it will teach me how to guide them.

    Reply
  65. latanya says

    February 15, 2013 at 3:50 pm

    it will help my son learn to enunciate

    Reply

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