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I am going through OPGTR with DS5. In the past couple of weeks, he has made an amazing leap in his reading abilities. It is actually becoming fun for him and it is so exciting to see. I have these Catholic readers (Little Stories for Little Folks) and they are great readers. The are cute and funny and always have a good message about being a good person. He is starting to fly through these readers. I told him we are going to have a party when he finishes level 1 (the pink readers). The book we started last night had some letter combos that we haven't come to in OPGTR and won't come to for a long time. We went over the combos and he got them and could read the book. I started to wonder if I should hold off on the books until we got to those letters in OPGTR. Then I started to think about his enthusiasm and the fact that he obviously got it when we read it. Exposure to more words and sounds is probably not bad in teaching reading. I honestly think that he is ready to read more material and move more quickly. However, I am going through OPGTR at a comfortable pace for him because I really want him to know the phonics (I am trying to avoid stopping phonics training once he starts reading well since that is what leads to problems down the road). I also have MCP Phonics and we are going to do AAS so it isn't like he is not going to cover all of this multiple times as review.
I would love to hear your feelings on this since this is my first time HSing. I never imagined that teaching my child to read would be such an exhilerating and wonderful bonding experience! I love it!
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I would say that as much as any program tries to tell you that following their program without devation is the perfect way to learn to read.. you simply can not control how a child reads. I have so many different experiences.. one child can not use phonics, two children struggle no matter what, another learned with phonics (and a lot through speech therapy), and another simply all of a sudden was picking up books and reading them.
Keep him doing the programs if that's your desire.. but once they catch on, they may not bother waiting on you. 
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JodieLyn wrote:
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I hesitate to give advice about teaching reading since my children are still so young and I'm not speaking from much experience...  But I would let him continue as he likes with the books as well--whether you want to continue the program on the side or not (honestly, I wouldn't--it's probably just wasting time at this point if he's moving beyond it on his own). It sounds like the books are keeping his interest and motivating him more than the reading lessons are, and I think that's perfectly natural. My daughter jumped straight to books on her own with no phonics instruction at all. She is a very fluent reader now, and we haven't hit any roadblocks--she seems to have internalized many of the phonics rules on her own just through experience with a variety of rich vocabulary (which is what Charlotte Mason says will happen, so no surprise there!). I have done a slight bit of phonics work with my desperate-to-read son, but he has recently made great strides in his reading from regular books as well.
If we do hit a roadblock, that will be the time to do a little more gentle phonics work--it's no problem to go back and forth, I don't think. Now that my daughter is an interested and proficient reader, she will do what she needs to do to decode the words, and if reading lessons are what need to be done, I think she will be quite motivated to pick them up with me.
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It has always been helpful to me to remember that the curriculum is there for the child...not the child for the curriculum! Use the curriculum as long as it works and when it doesn't, move on. Each learner is different. Some need to spread out the material spending a lot of time on each step in the process; some just "get it" and move on quickly. Curricula sort of try to pace according to the needs of an "average" learner...which means they miss the mark for quite a few learners!
You will cover phonics more than once as you work on spelling in the future. I'd let him move as quickly as he can in the reading; just be sure he is able to phonetically approach ("sound-out") new words when he needs to.
Enjoy this fun time and the ease with which this child is learning to read! 
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kristinannie wrote:
| I never imagined that teaching my child to read would be such an exhilerating and wonderful bonding experience! I love it! |
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It is, isn't it?  One of the most rewarding parts of hsing and one of my favourite moments. So pleased you get to experience this.
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Topic: Quick question about teaching reading
