All About Reading Review & Giveaway {Closed}

Let’s talk about teaching reading today, okay?

I’ve homeschooled for eleven years, and in the process have taught five of my seven children how to read. I’ve used countless programs, materials, dvds, and more and still reading and phonics became one of those subjects that in the beginning was exciting but towards the middle became met with groans.

Enter All About Reading.

First, I’m just going to gush – I love this program. It has changed my perception on teaching reading and I actually {gasp} look forward to our All About Reading {produced by All About Learning} lessons. And, to make it even better, my Caleb, who is six, loves his All About Reading times as well.

He asks to start his academic day with All About Reading.

I honestly cannot think of a better – we love this product endorsement – than having your six year old beg to do just another lesson or can we start with this, please? type of endorsement.

But, now, some nitty-gritty for you moms out there. I can hear the questions, they’re questions that I ask as well, like do they learn their letter sounds correctly? and how can phonics be fun? and is it thorough? All About Reading is a multisensory program – meaning that learning is made through touch, sight, and sound. All of this reinforces the essential skills for your readers. All About Reading teaches five essential skills – Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Decoding, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension {taken from their website}.

So often I’ve worked through reading programs with my children that have worked on certain aspects of each of these skills and they separate them out into different components. With All About Reading these skills are seamlessly integrated in each lesson. No longer is vocabulary or comprehension isolated, but rather they are part of every day study. I believe teaching comprehension right away strengthens readers – and the comprehension/discussion questions are fun, enjoyable, and provide this enjoyable time of discussion and interaction each day.

Best of all? My kids enjoy and love working through the lessons. And they’re proud of how they’re reading. Oh yeah, and they love using these fabulous magnetic tiles. It makes learning fun!

Here’s what is in the Level 1 Kit – Level 1 Teacher’s Manual, Level 1 Student Packet, Run, Bug, Run! and The Runt Pig and Cobweb the Cat {decodable readers}. A note on the materials – these are high quality, well-made books. The readers are beautiful hardcover books. One thing that I’ve discovered about early readers is that there is a sense of accomplishment when they can read a chapter book – these hardcover readers are set up like a chapter books – and this builds up confidence in those readers.

You will also need an Interactive Kit. For this review I received the Deluxe which includes: letter tiles with magnets, the Basic Phonograms CD-Rom {this is essential}, Reading Divider Cards, Reading Review Box, Star Stickers {consumable} and Tote Bag. I’m telling you, I love the bag as it keeps our materials together so I don’t have that where’s the reader or the star sticker type of panic in the beginning of our school day. Get the bag {you can see it on the top of the post}.

Final note – Caleb, who was already reading a bit, has almost finished level one and we’ll be moving onto Level Two in the fall. Now, my four year old Elijah, will be starting Level One in the fall {or sooner as he’s so excited}. All I have to order is an additional student set and we’re good to go. Easy!

Finally, here’s a short video of my Caleb reading. Watch the delight on his face – thank you All About Learning.

All About Reading is part of All About Learning Press. On my personal blog – Finding Joy – I’ve got another review & giveaway up today for All About Spelling. I love this product just as much as I love All About Reading. I can honestly tell you that this is my favorite reading and spelling series ever. So, after you leave a lovely comment here telling us about your experiences with All About Reading or a question or a Cool I need to get it, pop on over to my blog Finding Joy to read my review on All About Spelling and enter the giveaway.

Thank you All About Learning for your amazing product and for being a sponsor for Hip Homeschool Moms. We, as a team, are grateful for you. And I, as a homeschooling mom, am very grateful for your amazing products and excellent company.

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Check out All About Learning’s Reading Resource Center and download the Free Reading e-books for your beginning reader. Along with the Deluxe version mentioned, All About Reading can be used with the Basic Reading Interactive Kit. For younger kids, check out the Pre-Reading Program (Level Pre-1).

Rachel lives in the half-a-year frozen land of Minnesota. She’s a Christian home schooling momma to seven fabulous kids, and is the wife to an amazing cancer-surviving husband. In January 2011 her youngest son, Samuel, was diagnosed with Celiac Disease so you’ll also find her passionate about gluten free living and Celiac Disease awareness. Between home schooling, blogging, running her family, and, of course, drinking coffee, you’ll also find her driving her girls to classical ballet or her boys to soccer. She’s passionate about seeking joy and living a faith filled, intentional life. You can find Rachel blogging at Finding Joy

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