![]() *But before that my son was trying to break into reading whole word style and RE does use whole words *but Reading Eggs convinced him to use sounding out better than I could. *I tried 100 ez lessons, but didn't make it far and maybe learning "say it fast, say it slow" helped, but maybe not. *He was starting to rack up sight words from every day life. I'm just passing on my advice on how to use the program, not waste your money, not frustrate anybody, and still get results.īefore this program we had done the Hooked on Phonics letter sounds and letter names. I'm not trying to sell you on Reading Eggs. I didn't make him do any lessons he didn't want to do, but I did, if he got frustrated with a lesson that he left sitting there that he didn't want to try, leave it for later until a night that he didn't want to go to bed at bedtime and say, "well, you don't have to go to bed but you can go do that reading egg lesson." So, that's the effort I put into making the program work for us. So, I don't know if that was a lesson worth teaching, but it was an unexpected side effect of the program.* * Eventually he'd remind himself, but he would still tell me he needed me to stand there because "it was the hard part." *But the next time instead of saying what he did wrong I would just tell him the next answer and he'd remember to keep going. *I explained each thing so he would know it cost time. He would gloat and make songs about beating the timer in between answers. He would do obvious things like get one wrong and pout for a minute, costing time, or visually tally and comment how many eggs he had done and how many were left, during the timed part. * The timed part I actually did help him on by standing over him and coaching him. *I haven't been "taking turns" to help him. Oh yeah, the fast, difficult, or boring parts that have stumped him this second time through. *I actually would not have needed to renew, except now they have reading express, the next level.* I sent an email asking them to reset his board and he has worked his way by himself back up to where we left off. We went taking turns like that about 3/4 of the way through the reading eggs program and by then I really wasn't having to take any turns any more. *I could chose which ones were "his turn" to build his confidence and "my turn" to demonstrate one he couldn't do. *After seeing me do one or two examples, the next time a similar board came up he would literally push my hand off the mouse and say he wanted to do it. *So I rigged it so that I would do the harder ones or too fast ones or ones that he hadn't seen yet. I said, "you do a board, then I'll do a board," thinking that if it were a classroom he wouldn't be answering every question, surely he'll get something from watching me do some of the work. *So, I sat with him and went through all the lessons. I would have probably bought it and just left it up to him to do it or not, get past the hard parts or not, *and would have ended up letting the subscription expire unused, wasted after one of the hard parts.but, at that time, I read a forum thread about if your kid's working very hard to learn something well you should help them out. Eh, some parts are more fun than others and some parts are kind of hard, but not too hard. *My son is now good at the dreaded timed "golden eggs". *I actually think I *know what that's about, visual discrimination or visual processing. Like another poster said some of the games in reading eggs go very fast, maybe one in every twenty lessons is. he likes it, and can play around on his own with it. it has much less depth and quantity of content than reading eggs but it does have more varied content. ![]() ds has done a couple of reading eggspress lessons, but i have to sit with him the whole time and help with some words.ĭs likes playing on starfall more. they still don't seem to have all of the kinks worked out, but that doesn't bother her. she can spend hours on there reading books. what she really loves is reading eggspress. i still help him with some of the timed lessons because he panics a bit with timers.ĭd 7 likes the spelling lessons and buying things with eggs. early on i sat with him while he did the lessons until he got the hang of the games. he was reading some before starting, so i am not sure how it would work for a kid who wasn't reading at all. we got it when homeschool buyers coop had it at the end of summer.ĭs, who turned 4 in november, started using it in august and has completed almost all of the reading lessons, he has 7 left. My kids who are 7 and 4 love reading eggs. Other Resources for Learning Challenges.Resources (and Curricula) for Processing Difficulties.Science Courses: Text/Online Support Packages.Apps, Learning Games, and Online Enrichment Activities.Getting Started: Beginning the Home Education Adventure.Stories and Tales From Around the World.
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