My first grader has very little interest in learning to read.

I have successfully taught my older kids to read using various phonics materials, ie. Abeka, Saxon and Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons.

I have tried several things with this one child over the past couple of years.  We have had the most success with Time 4 Learning and in a very short time.  He loves that the phonics lessons are similar to his favorite thing-computer games!

But…   He is so very wiggly, out of focus, talky-talky! 

He knows all of the letter sounds and many of the blends. He is at a point in the lesson activities where he can complete the lessons, but just isn’t holding on to the information when it comes to reading.

What have you all used along with T4L to really get going with reading?  OR, how have you tweaked T4L to make the most of this great learning tool?

Thanks!

Lisa

Hi, I’m Lisa! 

My husband, Tim and I have been married for 21 years and have five children.  We currently homeschool four of them.   They are 17g(next week), 13b, 10b, 6b and 2b years old.  

We are closing in on the end of our 10th year of homeschooling. The years have flown by!   It has been hard, easy, scary, fun, challenging, but always….real.

We chose to home educate mainly for Biblical reasons in the beginning.  Being Christians, we wanted to add Godly principles to our children’s education.

After a short while, we realized we were also dealing with dyslexia and dysgraphia in our oldest child.  So, our story and our reasoning changed a bit-still Christian, but more. 

Now our homeschool also covers a language/developmentally delayed fantasy/sci-fi fan , one “easy breezy” artistic child, a very bright, possibly ADHD computer freak and the baby-our medical miracle heart baby!  Whew….

Our 6 year old is currently using T4L and is doing great!  We hope to add our 1o year old soon and then our 13 year old will squeak in before he gets too old.  Oh, how I wish I had T4L back in 1998….

That’s our story.  I hope to get to know you all and chat about all those things that make us who we are; so different and yet, so very similar…