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Children who learn to read the “Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons” way cannot read anything else (such as library books) until they nearly complete it. DISTAR books are long out of print. When this method was first designed, it included storybooks rewritten using the DISTAR alphabet at several reading levels so the children could actually practice their reading with additional materials. Those materials are no longer available. The book is available through bookstores, and you can download additional printout materials from the Start Reading website.

Once your child can read, she can read. Reading does not require eight years’ worth of classroom readers to accomplish this seemingly awesome feat. Graded classroom readers are boring and they only introduce 200 to 300 new words per year on the average. Use your library card and practice reading for free.

If your children have books in their rooms, you may want to rotate them periodically (the books, not the children). A couple times per year, I go into the bedrooms and pull out the generic reading material below their current reading levels, replacing these books with others just above their reading level. That way the handiest books, those next to the bed, are at least comparable to their understanding if not a bit challenging. The pulled books then get returned to the family library shelves so that if they must read Clifford one more time, he’s still available. (Indiscriminately throwing out books in a family of readers is akin to mutiny.)