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The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Instructor Book
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Many phonics programs are over-complicated and over-priced, but you can take charge of your child’s literacy with this jargon-free phonics guide. The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading cuts through the confusion, giving parents a simple, direct, scripted guide to teaching reading, from short vowels through supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. It’s user-friendly, affordable, and easy to follow, supplying you with everything you need to teach reading in one book. This program teaches all 72 phonograms, one at a time, and has built-in review.
Clarification: we do NOT offer a guarantee that children who learn phonics from The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading will win the spelling bee. We only guarantee that they will grow up to be avid readers with fantastic grades who get into elite universities, then proceed to change the world with their creativity, erudition, and passion, while respecting rich and poor alike, and calling their parents at least twice a week with genuine gratitude and in-depth updates. (Just wanted to clarify that, so as not to raise unreasonable expectations.)
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The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Instructor Book
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition, Instructor Book is part of an updated, easier-to-use edition of the phonics program that helped a million parents teach their children to read. Scripted, open-and-go lessons enable you to give your student a strong foundation in reading. Student Book also required. You can add it easily by creating a bundle, below.
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition Student Book
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition, Student Book is part of an updated, easier-to-use edition of the phonics program that helped a million parents teach their children to read. Includes all text the student needs to read, with a non-cluttered layout and ample whitespace. Instructor Book also required.
The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, Audio Companion
This audio companion reinforces the phonics lessons from The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. Rhymes and songs put the sounds in context, in a memorable and fun format for children.
Flashcards for the Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading
This set of 320 cards include phonograms, sight words, word endings, subject, predicate, command, and others – everything you need to use The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading. Just cut and use, or print and cut the PDF version.
OPG Magnet Board Bundle - Two Boards and Magnets
A set of two magnet boards – one blank, and one with all the alphabet magnets you’ll need to teach reading using The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading.
Jennifer –
I have friend who is step mom to a 10 year old who cannot read – would you recommend this book for an older child who is already in the public school system? Would they skip some of the earlier parts? Or is there another guide you would recommend?
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Miriam –
Os livros são em português Brasil?
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Answer Desk –
Não, desculpe, este livro não está disponível em português no momento. (via Google Translate)
No, I’m sorry, this book is not currently available in Portuguese.
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Nicole (verified owner) –
Is the book, Teaching Reading designed for pre-K through 3rd grade?
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
Most pre-K kids are ready for OPG, but certainly there are those who are not. If your child isn’t ready, focus on reading readiness activities until they are a bit older. There are 231 lessons, and the student will be reading at about fourth-grade level when finished.
How long it takes to finish depends on how often you do lessons and how much knowledge the student has going in – an older student may recognize all the letters and know the initial sounds, so some lessons could be skipped. A younger student might take 1 1/2 to 2 years to finish.
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Jessie (verified owner) –
Do you have to do one lesson per day or are you able to do multiple lessons per day?
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
Many children have some familiarity with the letters and sounds before beginning formal lessons, making it quite possible to do multiple lessons in a day. The last thing we want is for the student to hate reading lessons because they’re trudging through basic consonant sounds they already know! Move through the phonics instruction as quickly as the student can grasp the concepts, reviewing as needed – the Information for Parents section in the Instructor Guide talks about when to move on and how to review.
Just as some children will be able to do more than one lesson per day at the beginning, other children may need more than one day for certain lessons. Be sensitive to that particular child’s pace.
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Suhaylah –
Am I able to get a student work book pdf ?
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
The teacher manual and the student book are both available in PDF, but they are separate purchases.
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Marie Christine Kennedy –
I have the original. What is different?
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Press Minion –
All typos have been corrected; the typesetting/font of the instructor text is cleaner and easier to read; the stuff that the student needs is split off into its own book so that the student isn’t just looking at your book.
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Libby –
Hi There, I am wanting to know approximately how long it normally takes for a 5 year old (who knows the alphabet: uppercase & lowercase) to complete/ or how many grades typically this book covers when done in a homeschool setting? I understand that it is mastery based, yet for the purposes of writing about this course for a homeschooling permit in my country, I am just wondering the approximate year/s, grade/s it is normally expected to cover, Thank you so much.
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Press Minion –
Sure! If you do 4 lessons a week, you’ll be finished in less than 2 school-years (American school-years are nine months each).
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Chelsea (verified owner) –
Can you provide the scope and sequence for the previous edition of OPGTR (copyright 2005, reprinted 2020)?
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
I’m sorry, we don’t have that. If you look at the sample on this page (located underneath the illustration of the book), you can see the table of contents. The skills taught in the Original and Revised versions are essentially the same, although they are not in the exact same order.
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Brittany Meeker –
While going through lessons for reading in this latest edition, I noticed the word “to” in one of our reading drills (Lesson 38). When my daughter didn’t say it correctly, I realized I don’t think we actually ever learned it. I know it doesn’t use the short-vowel o sound that we have learned so far, but I also couldn’t find it as a sight word or taught anywhere else in the previous lessons. Is the word “to” taught in this book and is the sound used for the o (“ooh”) taught or is it just the short-o and long-o sounds?
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
It does look like the sight word “to” is used once in Lesson 38 before it is taught in Lesson 76. Treat it like learning the sight word “the” in Lesson 29: “To” is another word that we will memorize; it often means “in the direction of.”
The vowel pair “OO” is taught in Lesson 106 and Lesson 113.
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Michelle Daramy –
Does this book introduce all the sounds that each phonogram (or each vowel) makes like Logic of English does? For example, for a, Logic of English tells the child all the sounds that a makes: a (short sound, long sound, and broad sound). Another example, the phonogram ough has about 6 sounds. Does this book introduce all the wounds or only some of the sounds for each phonogram?
I’m asking because it seems that this book only introduces the child to the long and short sound for each vowel.
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
The only phonogram I see on the LOE list that I don’t see in our book is “cei” as a single phonogram.
Single vowels are taught three ways, although we do not use the “broad” terminology. For example, A is taught as /ă/, ā, and ä.
“Ough” all together is specifically taught as /Ǖ/, /ou/, /ô/, and /ō/, and then as a combination. Some of the example words: thought, though, through, bough, rough.
I hope this is helpful. If you need additional information on OPG, please email [email protected] and we’ll be glad to help.
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Joey Elliff –
Hi there, I have a visually impaired daughter in kindergarten. We have used Ordinary Parents’ Guide to Teaching Reading with both of our older sons and they are now great readers. I am about 25 lessons into the book with my daughter but the font is still a little too small for her and she struggles to focus on it. Is there any version of this that is large print, or any way to get it printed out for her in large print? Perhaps a PDF version that we could print out in large print? Thanks!!
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
Luckily, all of our curricula is available in digital format!
When you are on the product page, it will say Format and then have two boxes, one for print and one for PDF. Just select PDF and the selected box will turn black and the price will adjust accordingly.
Just to clarify, she should be using the Student Book (this question showed up on the Instructor Book product page, so I just wanted to make sure you were aware).
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Tyler –
If my 5 year old son has already completed “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” would this book still be beneficial? He is reading at Grade 1 level. It looks like this book goes more in-depth than 100 Easy lessons did.
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Press Minion –
Yes, the Ordinary Parent’s Guide would still be useful, but you could skip ahead to about halfway through the book, because “Teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons” has already taught him the early content. Check out the Table of Contents in the free sample on our site http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.peacehillpress.com/pdfs/samples/OPG_Revised_Instructor_SAMPLE.pdf to see how far into it you can skip.
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Rachael –
What do you recommend after a child completes this book?
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Answer Desk (verified owner) –
OPG gets the student reading at about a fourth-grade level, so they are ready to enjoy some good books, and work on standard skills such as spelling and grammar.
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