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Reading Worksheets and Printables. Our printable reading worksheets cover a variety of reading topics including early letter recognition, sight words, fluency, and comprehension. Reading comprehension worksheets feature both fiction and nonfiction stories, and make reading enjoyable with detailed illustrations and engaging comprehension questions. Distar Reading Program Worksheets. Direct instruction - Wikipedia. Direct instruction (DI) is a general term for the explicit teaching of a skill- set using lectures or demonstrations of the material to students. Demonstration with child-LESSON 1. In this classic video, co-author, Dr. Phyllis Haddox brings Lesson 1 of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons to life with a 3 year old child. Note how she engages the child with her pacing of the lesson, use of immediate positive corrections, and frequent, specific praise. These packets are intended to be used alongside the Distar Reading program, 'Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons' and each packet includes everything needed for supplementing when you are following through the lessons in order. So, when you have finished lesson 10, you will be ready for everything included in the 'After Ten' packet.

One of the most popular items in our store has been the downloadable packets (free and otherwise) that are filled with supplemental activities that work hand in glove with the amazing Distar Reading Program, 'Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons'.

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I used this reading program in my traditional classroom when I taught reading, but since the program is designed for a parent and child to sit down together one on one, I had to modify it quite a bit. I created quite a few supplemental worksheets and printables at the time, that would work for the classroom experience.

And now that I have begun using this program with my own children, I find that those supplemental worksheets are a lot of help. So I have been developing more and uploading these to my store, in bite-sized segments. At this time, we are all the way up to Lesson 50, and offer our packets as a Bundle for cost-saving.
I have had many requests to create supplements for the entire 100 lessons. I'm working on it!
Here's what we have so far:
This was our first experimental packet, following up the great reception to the freebies we put up. Now if you are familiar with the 'Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons', you will remember that by the end of lesson 5, there are only 4 sounds to work with: a, m, long e, and s.
So the worksheets and crafts in this packet are based only on those sounds. We included a Dot to Dot activity and crafts to keep it fun, but also really helpful are the Writing Practice Sheets that have the paths of motion already included for children that are just being introduced to these letters/sounds.
We call this one 'After Five Phonics'.
Keeping the Covers of the packets pretty similar, but with different color schemes, our next release was 'After Ten', intended of course, to be utilized after you and your child have completed Lesson 10 in the Distar Program. At the completion of Lesson 10, children will have been introduced to two more sounds: r, and t.
Now, very simple words can be formed, and so I tried to get creative with these and make worksheets that would echo the instruction that is received in the program. In addition to the craft pages and the writing practice sheets, I added a 'Finding the Sounds' Activity, utilizing shapes and a 'What Do You See?' page where children can illustrate a short sentence that they have read.
This, of course, is 'After Ten Phonics'.
By this time, I was starting to receive some great feedback, including the news that a 2nd grade Special Ed teacher was utilizing these new worksheets and so I decided to try my hand at a few other new kinds of activities in the next packet, 'After Fifteen'.
The sounds introduced between Lesson 10 and Lesson 15 are d and the short i sound.
So after creating all the activities I now considered standard for the packets, I also created an 'Identifying the Sounds' worksheet and an 'Identifying Words' worksheet, so that children could work with newly acquired sounds by connecting the sounds to the pictures represented.

Now I was having people contact me via my website to ask when and if I would have the other packets completed soon. This was exciting and also helped me to keep the creative juices going.
After Lesson Twenty, the new sounds include:

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th and c

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'After Twenty' also included another new activity, a Story Time Page, where children can practice their reading comprehension of a very simple story.
Then, came 'After Twenty-Five'. Along with the crafts, and the other activities that have already been listed, I added something new to this packet.
The new addition is something I have been wanting to do, when enough of the sounds were there. After Lesson 25 in the Distar program, children have been introduced to sounds o, n, and f.
With these sounds added to the repertoire, there are now enough sounds to create a Mini Book, that children may read, color, and then take home to share their skills with their parents.
The Mini Book is intended to be cropped to the size of the outer black rectangle, folded into a 1/4 sized paper book, and then read, and colored, if desired.

As we have expanded our packets, the supplements we have created have modified and expanded as well. We now offer multi-sensory pages for each sound in the first 50 packets.

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These Multi-sensory pages are not only able to be used for children to find and circle the images that begin with the sound that is pictured, but they can also use manipulatives to fill in the sound.
For instance, this nice big S sound could be used to fill in with string or small stones. Children have the opportunity to create the letter using manipulatives like these.

We have also revamped some of our Craft pages, to ensure that children can learn more about the new sounds they are learning through easy, crafts that help explore vocabulary with delightful experiences.
We can't wait for you to dive in and learn more about these awesome supplements!
Come visit our store, and look them over in detail.

My daughter is turning 5 this month. She has been interested in reading books from her babyhood days. She loves to read lots of books. In fact, every night these days we bargain over how many books should we read.

She wishes to be read 5-10 books daily during bedtime. I settled at reading 2-3 books and during fridays, 5 a day if we are in the weekend mood. She loves all kinds of books. Her eyes beam with joy whenever a new book is added to her esteemed collection. I have also subscribed to two magazines and she loved magazines too. Whenever the courier boy delivers books she waits for me till the evening and the moment I stepped inside the house, she wants me to read the book.

And this is where my problem lies. She can’t read on her own. In my non-pushy mom avatar, I end up thinking that it’s ok if she can’t read. Every child has a different pace of learning things. I should be happy that in this technology savvy kid’s world, at least my child is happy with her world of books. Even though she is too much dependent on me, she is enjoying. This continued till she was 4 and half years old. I used to get worried at times but then I had trained my mind to leave those thoughts and wait patiently for her to learn.

Whenever I asked her to read two letter words she replied – “I don’t want to read Mumma.” She thinks it’s too much work to read and it’s fun if momma is reading every time. Basically, she doesn’t want to come out of her comfort zone of being read to.

You know a typical mommy’s brain, which oscillate between what’s wrong and right for her children. I was going through the same phase. I used to play rhyming word games, sight word recognition, etc. She is very well versed with phonetic sound of each word so it seems she will be a good reader. I also ordered beginner reader level 1 books thinking may be a new set of books would motivate her to read on her own. But this also didn’t help.

A little bit of self-realization and lot of research on the internet, I came to a conclusion that I was not using any formal method of teaching her to read. It was just a vague method. No systematic approach. And the school also just teaches A to Z in nursery and two-three letter word reading starts in KG.

During an internet browsing session, I came across a DISTAR method of teaching your child to read.

Then I found a book – How to teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons. I have seen these kinds of books earlier too, but I never took them seriously and didn’t buy any. After reading a lot of good reviews about this book I finally ordered this book and this book surpassed my expectations.

I completely agree to blurb – In only 20 minutes a day, this remarkable step by step program teaches your child to read with the love, care and joy only a parent and child can share!

It’s the best book you can buy for teaching your child to learn reading in a formal way, following a step by step format, one lesson a day.

Don’t presume that if your child is interested in being read to, she will pick up reading on her own someday. Definitely they will have a good vocabulary and will be fast readers once they will start reading, but till that time you as a parent need to work on acquiring reading skills in the same way we work with our kids to learn any other new skill like swimming or skating.

We haven’t learnt reading in a phonetic way. So as a parent, you first need to understand the book yourself and once you are clear with the approach, its cakewalk. Trust me it’s that easy. They are well developed lessons which make learning super easy for kids. It says children will learn to read within 100 chapters (One chapter each day) that means in 3.5 months. We haven’t been very regular and so finished 60 lessons in the last six months, but next week when she will turn 5, I can say that she enjoys reading on her own without much struggle.

She still loves when I read to her and I know she will soon grow out of my lap and will soon be reading Harry Potter and Enid Blyton on her own. But till then, I am enjoying this phase of reading together. 🙂

I would love to hear your experience in teaching kids to read. What’s your magic mantra to get those tiny tots read on their own?

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Rashmi Sehgal is the mother of two adorable kids, 4 and 1-year-old fondly known as Angel and Lil prince on her blog. She wears the dual hat of mother and IT Professional who juggles between work and kids trying to maintain balance between both worlds . She is a voracious reader , avid blogger , Shopaholic, love to experiment different way of learning and unlearning things with her daughter and take pleasure in reading books to her daughter. She writes at rashworld.wordpress.com