teaching a child how to read

This is a quick list for my reference for other children coming up so I won't have to re-invent the wheel.

Materials Needed:

• At Last! A Reading Method for Every Child by Mary Pecci
• Bob Books - Sets 1 & 2
• concrete alphabet letters (magnets or foam letters)
• Pathway Readers
  

Process:

1. Teach the alphabet letters by name (Letter Hunt, Alpha-Bingo, singing ABC's)
   
2. Teach the Good Guys (the consonants who say their names like "B" p 70)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Teach the Tough Guys (the consonants who don't say their names like "H" p 78)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
4. Teach the short Vowels (p 90)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
5. Start reading Bob Books
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Teach the digraphs. (p 84)
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. Introduce Sight Families (p 121ff) as needed
8. Help the child figure out words by underlining the parts of the words that they already know and reading in context (What's the clue? p 108)
9. Introduce new Sight Families and Sight Words before the child reads them so they are already familiar with new words they encounter in reading.
   
10. Pathway Readers - continue introducing new sight families/words until the child is confidently figuring out words on his own.