Teach Your Child To Read With Bob Books || Companion Guide to Teaching Bob Books

hi everyone it's Sherry from our life homeschooling where I share homeschooling resources and encouragement for everyday moms today I want to talk to you about how I use Bob Books to teach my kids to read and I want to specifically show you this handy guide that I've used along with Bob Books to teach eight of our 10 kids to read if you're looking for a simple yet practical curriculum to teach your kids to read I highly recommend Bob books as a homeschooling mom to 10 I've been using Bob Books to teach my kids to read for all of my children I have eight kids that are reading two more to go and I can't say enough how much I love their program I'm a non nonsense no fluff type of person um I like something that's just easy to use and practical and Bob books are just that for our family the books come in a five box set and in each box is about 8 to 12 little booklets each story is really short they have silly illustrations it's something that kids really like when I started teaching our oldest son how to read over 15 years ago I started with Bob Books it seemed like just a really easy and simple curriculum and I loved it from the start as I was going through however I felt like it really could use a a guide to go along with it to introduce some of the new site words and phonic sounds as we were coming to them in the books the progression in it is really nice I love how it just slowly gets a little bit more challenging at a pace that the kids are able to handle but I did notice that it seemed like we would come to new site words or new phonic sounds and um there just wasn't a great way to introduce them other than just by showing it to him on the page so as I was teaching my oldest son to read I decided that I was just going to grab a little manuscript tablet and just jot down every new site word when we came to it and then as we got further in the books and he started getting into new sounds so like an sh sound or um a dip song which is like two vowes put together like o w and o y whenever he would come to some of these new sounds I wrote them in this little manuscript tablet and you can see here this is the original tablet that I used all those years ago in fact this is the original one it's so beat up that somewhere along the way I started a new one and I have used this tablet along with each of my kids and this has been such a great tool for us as we're going through the Bob Books since this has been so useful to me I decided to create my own ebook that I can share with anyone who would like to use this guide along with Bob Books I want to clarify that this beginner guide is used for the Bob Books set 1 through five so Bob books has come out with several different box sets I think one is like animal stories another one is preschool ready another one is kindergarten but I just used this guide with the five box set so set one is beginning readers and then set two is advancing beginners the yellow box is word families the green box complex words and set five is long vowels so this guide is to go along with these sets here in this companion beginner guide for teaching Bob Books I have a little note about how I use them in our hom School I've included some games like the consonant vow game where kids can learn how to tell the difference between a consonant and a vow and then I also give some ideas and games to help kids as they're just getting ready to start reading Bob books so they need to be able to do two things they have to recognize the letter names and sounds and secondly they have to be able to put simple three-letter words together together and I give games and ideas in this handbook for how you can do that in just a couple days of playing games with your child and then they'll be ready to start the first bob box also in this guide you will find a complete index of each of the books that are in all five sets and in each book it will tell you the site words and the phonic sounds that are being introduced in that book so this is an index of all the new site words and phonic sounds that are introduced through out the whole five sets after the index you'll find the actual site word list and then secondly will be the phonic sounds and um under that category I have short vowels long vowels um endings words ending in y r controlled vowels dip thongs d graphs and blends and compound words so these are all part of the phonics sounds list that you will find at the very end of the book I also have um an additional guide with some notes just some additional notes about how I teach it in our home school and also some frequently asked questions when I do a reading lesson with my kids I try to keep it very short 10 to 15 minutes for a beginning reader and I start out by using this companion guide and I review the site words and the phonic sounds that we've come to that far and this usually takes about 5 minutes it's very short and then the next 5 to 10 minutes are spent in actually reading the books that they're on we usually do one or two books a week um I try not to move much faster than that unless they're really ready and they're moving through them quickly and sometimes move quickly through um the beginning and then it gets a little bit harder and they'll go a little bit slower but about one or two books a week and we just take it at their own pace and keep the lessons really short if I find that my child just doesn't want to sit for a reading lesson I just continue giving them that 10 to 15 minute reading lesson every day but I spend a lot more time focusing on reading aloud to them picture books chapter books books just little Snippets of reading throughout the day so that they learn to love and enjoy books and enjoy hearing stories if you have more questions about teaching your child to read you can head over to the blog rlif homeschool.com under the reading tab I have several posts about teaching your child to read if you're interested in purchasing this beginner guide you can find it on the website our life homeschooling where you can purchase it for $8 this is a PDF that you download and print you won't receive a physical product if you have any more questions about teaching your child to read please drop them below I have loved using Bob books for all of my children as I'm teaching them to read they're so simple I can't recommend them enough and this guide that I've put together to go along with them has been just a great tool for us as we're moving through the books and I hope you'll find that you like it as well thanks for watching today I'll see you next week