Free Resources
Companion videos, printable sound cards, word lists, and progress trackers created by Dr. Phyllis Haddox to support your 100 Easy Lessons.
Why Use this Program? A History of Success
Introduction
Co-author Dr. Phyllis Haddox introduces the program. She shares her dedication and confidence in ensuring that all children can learn. This video presents the research and successful history behind the book she co-authored, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Sound-Symbol Relationships
General Training
In this video, Phyllis reviews all the sound-symbols that are taught in the book. You practice saying each sound as she explains how to pronounce the sounds in the best way to make blending (sounding out) much easier for beginning readers. She also demonstrates the teaching techniques to make learning fun.
Blending Sounds
General Training
Dr. Phyllis Haddox demonstrates and teaches you an important skill you need to master before you teach a child. That skill is blending – saying the sounds without stopping or taking a breath between the sounds. You want to be a good model when you teach this reading pre-skill because when you teach blending well, you make it easier for children to hear a whole word when they see the symbols and sound it out.
Reading the Script and Bringing the Exercises to Life
General Training
Dr. Haddox explains the script’s rationale and its features in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons with the goal of bringing the scripts to life so teachers can monitor student progress, provide immediate corrective feedback, and praise student success.
Lesson 1
Demonstration
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. Notice how she engages the child through her lesson pacing, use of immediate positive corrections, and frequent, specific praise. The child is learning and having fun!
Lesson 1
Specific Training
Co-author of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, Dr. Phyllis Haddox, demonstrates and trains a parent on how to teach all six exercises in Lesson 1–following the book’s script and personalizing it with enthusiasm, positive corrections, and praise. (Note: the sounds writing exercise is included for more practice at saying sounds with another modality, not to teach penmanship.)
Lesson 13 Word Reading
Demonstration
Co-author, Dr. Phyllis Haddox, teaches a young child the Word Reading task in Lesson 13, p.66. Notice Dr. Haddox’s pacing, positive corrections, and praise.
Lesson 13 Story Reading with Comprehension
Demonstration
Co-author of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, Dr. Phyllis Haddox, teaches a young emerging reader the Lesson 13 Story Reading and Comprehension exercises. Note the positive interactions (even during corrections) and all the child’s smiles.
Lesson 20 Word Reading with Quick Sounds
Demonstration
In this classic video, Dr. Phyllis Haddox, co-author, teaches a 4-year-old girl how to blend the sounds in a word that begins with “c”–a “quick” or “stop” sound–in Lesson 20 of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Lesson 20 Rhyming
Specific Training
In this video Dr. Phyllis Haddox, co-author of “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons,” works with a workshop participant to train him to teach an important blending skill, rhyming. Since this particular rhyming exercise has many steps it should be practiced to proficiency in order to skillfully use the techniques that result in a child successfully blending a list of several sound-symbols (including the quick sound, “c”) that the child sees on the page with the end of a word that the instructor (parent) says.
Lesson 53 Advanced Story Reading
Demonstration
In the early lessons of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, a child learns to sound out and say words aloud; then the book gradually transitions to sounding out words internally, and finally reading words “the fast way.” In this brief video, you’ll see a mom (halfway through the book) direct her son to read the title, then find the period or question mark of a sentence, and then read that whole sentence “the fast way” (by whole words). Finally, Mom does the picture-comprehension exercise with her son. Notice their positive interactions and how much the son enjoys the story.
Lesson 74 Advanced Word Reading
Demonstration
In this video, a mother demonstrates how to teach her son an advanced word-reading exercise. By Lesson 72 of Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, a child will have learned how to rapidly sound out a word silently, then say the word aloud (“the fast way”). This mom follows the exercise’s scripted steps and makes them feel natural. She has her son first read the word (covering the ending), then uncover the ending and have him read the whole word. Notice her quick pacing and reinforcing interactions with her son. He responds confidently and fluently.
Supplementary Instructional Material
(Downloadable Printables)
Sounds Practice Cards
Individual cards for every sound taught in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, with the lesson number, key word, and pronunciation on the back.
Display Sounds
Individual cards for every sound taught in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, with the lesson number, key word, and pronunciation on the back.
Helpful Hints – Sounds Firming
Information on firming sounds, how to use word cards, and how to display sounds to practice them in games.
Individual Word Cards
Individual cards for every word taught in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons, with the lesson number.
Helpful Hints – Word Firming
Information on firming up word reading and how to use word cards, an alphabet strip, and a vowel box for practice.
Alphabet Listing of Words
An alphabet listing of all words taught in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Number Listing of Words
A listing by lesson number of all words in Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Alphabet Practice Strip
Can be used to practice letter names in both “funny” and regular print and capital letters.
Long-Vowel Alternate Firming Exercise
Use to teach how to read words in regular print that end with a silent e.
Lesson Progress Chart
A chart of 100 squares to use for stars, stickers, or marks to recognize progress through the book Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons.
Comprehension Games
This Comprehension Games booklet contains 15 mini lessons designed to teach following-directions skills through game-like exercises that improve your child’s word-reading accuracy, content memory, and comprehension. You can use this booklet after your child completes Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (TYC) or after your child is reading fluently and accurately at TYC lesson 85.