I've been very laid back about reading with Rachel. David and I want to instill in her a love of books and stories. I think we've done that. We read 4-10 books a day with her.
She is starting to recognize words she sees, so I've ordered a couple of "curriculum" books in order to get a bit more methodical about teaching her to read. One is a phonics book that was highly regarded on the forum Well Trained Mind. The other one I've seen around and just wanted to take a look at it. It divides "learning to read" into 100 short lessons. That would be useful for Rachel since she is still so young.
I am going to aim for 20 minutes a day of "formal" work on reading. This will be in addition to our leisure reading. I'll split the 20 minutes into two sessions, one in the morning and one at another time. With summer coming on, we can easily do it in the afternoon since we won't have playschool to contend with.
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