My Life Rhapsody

Teaching/Learning to Read

My daughter is now 4 and my goal is to teach her to read. This is my first time, so I've honestly never thought much about how one learns to read. I purchased "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" and so far this is going very well. Granted, we're only on Lesson 7, but DD is doing very well and definitely grasping the new concepts as they come.

At this point, our "homeschooling" consists of the Reading Lesson (only about 15-20 minutes per day) and every few days we'll add in a little bit of piano lessons (very basic, beginning with concepts of teaching right/left hands, numbering the fingers, hearing high and low sounds on the piano keyboard). Then DD usually calls for "recess" - and we head outside where she rides her new bike with training wheels (a step up from the tricycle) and I sit on the porch to watch her and crochet. Obviously, we'll add more to our schooling as we go, but for now this is it and it's going very well.