Learn to Read for FREE!
My fine friends at Hooked on Phonics have given me a set of Learn to Read Kindergarten – 2nd Grade to pass on to one of you. Now, in case you haven’t been following along, this little project was my labor of love for a year as its producer.
You can learn all about it on the Learn to Read website, but here’s what I can tell you:
- There are 30 books, including books by Rosemary Wells, David Ezra Stein, Robert San Souci, Carolyn Crimi, and Michelle Knudsen, and perhaps a couple by yours truly.
- There are 6 workbooks which have step-by-step lessons and are loaded with comic-strip-style stories.
- There are 6 DVDs with awesome animated lessons to go through each sound individually.
Each grade level retails for $79.95, but one lucky winner will take home grades K-2. You can enter to win by commenting on this post, or on Twitter: any tweet that includes @mediamacaroni and “Learn to Read” will count as an entry. I’ll pick a winner on Friday, 11/6 at 9:00 EST.
UPDATE: Congratulations to LeeAnn P.! You are the lucky winner, and I hope your son enjoys it!
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:02 pm
This would be perfect for my girls. My oldest is 4, but we have had NO success at home with mommy trying to teach her much. She responds well to DVDs and interactive methods – and this would be fun for all of us!
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:46 pm
My daughter really loves the books that came with her Hooked on Phonics set for toddlers. Tot Fox is her friend.
I’m sure she would love this set as well.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:47 pm
My girls (almost 4 and 6 years old) would love this!
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:27 am
I love this post. Both your spelling and grammar are impeccable, and your use of bullets in the second paragraph elevated the entire experience. I applaud your image choice as it really tied the post together. Placing it between the first and second paragraphs was a stroke of genius.
Please pick me as the winner.
I’ll be honest with you: I don’t think this would be fun for me because like, I already know how to read real good and stuff. And plus I didn’t see any mention of Harry Potter. Or vampires. Maybe if there was a Hooked On Phonics book that featured a psychic vampire that went to wizard school I’d be like “oh, cool!”
Sincerely,
Josh
November 5th, 2009 at 1:00 am
WOW! I have been trying to figure how to teach my son (3 1/2) how to read and this program looks like the perfect one for us to start.
He already knows the alphabet and he LOVES when we “read” together, he even learned some of the paragraphs of his favorites books by heart…lol but i think now is time for us to put it together and start learning the real stuff.
November 5th, 2009 at 9:18 am
My 3 boys ages 7, 5 and almost 3 would get a lot from HOOKED on PHONICS. My 7 year old reads nicely but I think could use some help with difficult blends and vowel combinations. My 5 year old is really having a great time with sight words and is just sounding out words so this would be awesome for him to really take that next step. My little guy (will be 3 in January) he can identify all the letters and every now and then can associate the sound.
I would enjoy most as a parent from Hooked on Phonics program is that my kids will all eventually love to read and be able to read to me and they will have fun learning to do it with this program. When it is reading time at home everyone including the littlest goes to get a book.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
This would be perfect for my family. I’m homeschooling my 5 yr. old and have been looking for something to help me teach him to read. I have heard good things about the Hooked on Phonics program and would love to utilize it for my son!
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November 5th, 2009 at 11:40 am
This sounds perfect. We have a 3-year-old and 2-year-old who love letters and letter sounds and are asking about “how you do that?” when we read to them. We’ve been piecing together our own program from things available on the web and our own work but this sounds ideal. Thanks for putting the info out there.
November 5th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
My kids would love this.
Thank you for working so hard on this.
November 5th, 2009 at 8:17 pm
This would be great for my two little ones!
November 6th, 2009 at 1:26 am
i just got back from parent teacher conference tonight and my son is still struggling with reading alot, this would be so great he is in the 1st grade. Thank you so much for the giveaway!