We love The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading! My 6 year old should be finished with it by the end of 1st grade. My 4 year old is over 1/3 through the book. I think the simplicity with optional activities has allowed them to move quickly when they understand the new concept. Sometimes we’ve done three shorter lessons in one day. Sometimes we spread one lesson over one-two days.
I have the teacher's manual and was debating whether or not to get the student guide, so this video was really helpful for me as i've never seen inside the student guide before thank you.
You had me sold when you said that it reminds you of Math with Confidence! My daughter does so well with that math curriculum ❤ We also love First Language Lessons for a Well Trained Mind!
Us too! We just started First Language Lessons level 1 two weeks ago and my oldest is loving it! We planned to do it next year for 2nd grade, but she begged me to start it early and was so excited to do her first poem memorization of ‘The Caterpillar’ 🥰. We have loved everything we have tried from the well trained mind!
@@MaryBarfield thank you! I’m about to start the ordinary teachers guide but I’ve been really curious about elemental phonics for one of my other kiddos. I appreciate it!
Elemental Phonics worked great for my oldest, so it is definitely a great program for some kiddos! My youngest just didn’t connect with it as well, but Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading works really well for her! 🥰
So looking back I wish I would have used Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading. Instead we did 100 easy lessons and then started all about reading which is great however it’s so slow! We are about to start level 3 so I figured we should keep going. Now, we have a new 4 year old who is starting to express he wants to read like older brother. I really don’t want to do it all again unless we really need to. Question 🙋♀️ do you use any manipulatives? Games etc. What do you think works best?
It sounds like you may have the opportunity to use OPGTR with your 4 year old! I think it's a wonderful program and it's open and close which I love. We don't use any manipulatives, but just the two textbooks and the letter index cards we create per the instructions in the book. However, this summer we tested out a new new LA Curriculum using the McGuffey Readers for both my 7 year old and my (soon to be) 5 year old. And per their request, we have pivoted to the McGuffey readers completely. I mention the switch in my most recent videos. Also my next video I'm posting this week will be all about the McGuffey Readers and how we are using them for reading. I still love OPGTR and still have it in case my youngest decides she wants to go back to it, but I also don't hate that she chose the McGuffey readers instead, because it streamlines our entire LA program (not just Reading/Phonics). I think McGuffey's, AAR, and OPGTR are all great programs, but very different and depend on what kind of learner your child is and their skill level! :)
I wonder how this compares to treasure hunt reading. I love the explanation of the teaching reading book but also lack the time to read all the things. Child is the same way. I have a current 4 year old, almost 2 year old, and another one on the way so i am trying the best of both worlds rightnow. Something that i can do the bookwork help for but they teach through videos! 4 yo old Gets bored with long explanations etc. We tried tgtb but it just feels all over the place.... considering treasure hunt reading for this espically during the time of adjustment during postpartum!
I haven’t heard of Treasure Hunt Reading so I will have to take a look at it! It sounds like it might be the right fit for you during this chapter in your life where you need a little more support! And most importantly it sounds like it works with your kiddos learning style 🥰 my girls are very different in how they learn so what worked for my oldest didn’t work alone for my youngest and I had to bring in more resources for her. It’s all one big learning curve it seems 😂
How long does it take to get through the program and what level reader will the child be at by the time the complete the program? Lastly, how long does a lesson take? Thanks!
If you follow the Well Trained Mind's recommendation of doing Phonics 5 times per week, and you follow a 36-week school year, you could theoretically complete this curriculum in 1.3 school years (there are 231 individual lessons). However, myself and most who use this program will generally stretch the lessons out when we hit topics that they need to spend more time on to master specific reading concepts, so it will normally expand over 2-3 school years. The program says that once the child successfully completes it, they will be reading at a 3rd grade level. Lessons can take anywhere from 10-20 minutes. Let me know if you have any other questions!
Thank you so much for sharing! Ive currently been using AAR levels 1-3 for my 3rd grader and we’ve loved it because he struggles with dyslexia. I bought this guide for my incoming kindergartener for something more streamlined except I had no idea there was a revised version with a student guide. I totally bought the original version off of Amazon. Wondering if I could still purchase the student guide for the original edition because I think it would totally be less distracting than working out of the all in one book. 🤔 Do you know if the revised version is different in the lessons taught from the original?
Great questions! According to the Well Trained Mind website, all the revision did was: correct typos, clean up some of the fonts, and break out the students portion into its own workbook (per the feedback of parents). So based on that, all the lessons should be same (just without any typos and better font) and you should be good to use the new student workbook with the original instructors guide! :)
This is the revised version (copyright 2022), where they split it out into two books (an instructors manual and the student workbook - non-consumable) and cleaned up the format. From my understanding, It’s essentially the same as the original version, but easier to read and it gives the learner their own focused workbook without all the instructor directions to distract learner. You most likely have the original version.
