--- product_id: 49037629 title: "The Reading Lesson" price: "286.82 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/49037629-the-reading-lesson store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # The Reading Lesson **Price:** 286.82 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Reading Lesson - **How much does it cost?** 286.82 DT with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.tn](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/49037629-the-reading-lesson) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The Reading Lesson is a bestselling program that teaches young children to read in 20 easy lessons. It is designed as a step-by-step course for parents who want to teach their young children to read at home. The teaching method is based on phonics and key-word recognition, and with its innovative and guided approach, the 20 step-by-step lessons provide an easy-to-follow recipe for teaching children to read. Developed by pediatrician Michael Levin, the program has also been used successfully for children with disabilities. How do I use the Reading Lesson? There are twenty lessons in this book. Each lesson takes about two weeks to complete (with about 15 minutes of study per day). Before starting a lesson, we suggest that you read the instructions for that lesson. Each lesson begins with an introduction and a description of how to proceed. For example, lesson two introduces the letters “m”, “d”, and “r”. At the beginning of the lesson, there is an introduction with some words of advice and thoughts on how to go through the sounds of those letters and how to read them in words. Each lesson consists of words, exercises and short stories. When reading the words, ask the child to tell you what the word means. Before you read the story, read the title and talk a little bit about the content of the story. Approximately 300 key words form the basis of reading skills in this course. Each lesson introduces a set of key words. Your child should learn them well before you proceed to the next lesson, since these words are used in later lessons. For many young readers (including children who are familiar with the alphabet), the letters in words seem to melt together. The instructions in Lesson One teach the child basic sound blending. The special typography and font style the book uses will help your child to identify and separate the letters she already knows. These bars, dots, and special graphics are there as guides and are used to blend the sounds into words. This process is called “sounding out”. At first, blending is difficult for most children. You will need to help the child but he will get better at it with practice. How fast should I go through the book? The length and the pace of the daily lessons will vary with your child's age and abilities. We suggest the following schedule: For children under five, one page per day will suffice and maintain their concentration on the lesson. For children between five and six, two to three pages per day will be sufficient. For children over six, three or more pages per day will be fine. Children have a very short attention span. Try to keep each lesson under fifteen minutes, and spend no more than five to seven minutes per page. If your child is young, don't rush! Work at a leisurely and comfortable pace. Remember: you have plenty of time to complete the course and, if necessary, to go back and repeat the course before your child starts reading instruction in school. How old should my child be when we start the Reading Lesson? The book is meant for children between the ages of 3 and 8. We do not suggest that you try to teach a child under the age of three to read. Contrary to some books that suggest that you can teach infants to read, there is no proof that such a thing is possible. Children need certain developmental skills before they can read. Flashing cards with letters and words at a baby is a fun thing to do and makes us feel like good parents, but it does not work! The Reading Lesson is a totally developmentally appropriate course that is easy to follow, and makes learning to read fun for parents and kids. The book is an easy and cheap solution to teaching your children to read at home, and has been a success with families all around the world. Give it a try – you’re sure to love it. Review: Great for teaching reading - my son loves it! - This is a wonderful, wonderful book to teach your child to read. I bought this book mid-January and started using it more or less straight away. Now, about 4 months later, we're on lesson 10 and my son is an impressively good reader. He turns 5 in August and will be starting school then. However, the main reason I decided to start teaching him to read is that he had taken a great interest in reading and was always trying to read words on my/his t-shirts, signs around him, titles of books, etc. I started teaching him somewhat adhoc-ly (I know that's not a word :) but decided I needed something more systematic. This book fits the bill. It's very systematic and gradually builds the child's confidence and skills. It's not rushed or too basic - just right (at least for us). I also love the design of the book - very uncluttered, large print and pictures on the page to colour. I found the pictures very useful to keep my son's interest - I use it as a sort of reward and we also tick each page once he's done with it (he loves ticking the page). Do take the time to read the instructions and understand the system before starting him off. For example, it tells you about the progress chart at the back - but if you don't read the instructions, you might miss it. We've been ticking off and dating the progress chart and my son loves that as well - seeing his progress, even if he doesn't understand the dates. To start with, I stuck with just a couple of pages per day, but now sometimes, we do 4 or more pages, depending on how easy/complicated the pages are. I try not to do much at once, but enough to make him feel like he's accomplished something. To improve his reading even further, I would suggest buying other books that you can read together and that won't feel like "work". Although he loves using this book, he sees it as his reading "work" (probably because that's what I call it). But we also use Usborne's My Very First Reading books (note: not "First Reading," but "My Very First Reading") which are great for learning to read, but not systematic like The Reading Lesson. So I use the Reading Lesson for teaching him and My VFR for practice . And he doesn't see Usborne's as "work" - just our usual reading together (I make sure not to call it "work") so it doesn't become tedious for him. If your child is ready - buy this book, I think it's great and works well for us. About the book being American - as others have mentioned, the only difference I've noticed is in the spelling of "mom" instead of "mum" and this doesn't really matter. Even if there are other words (I wasn't educated in the English system, so there might be other differences that I didn't notice), the important thing is that your child learns and enjoys to read, and these differences can (and will) easily be corrected later. Review: It works!! - I'm British, and live in France with my French husband and 2 young children. Keen to teach my 4 year daughter to read English, I started this book last summer. She won't be taught to read English at school in France any time soon... We've worked steadily on the book, and now, nearing the end of chapter 7 of 20, I liken her in my mind to a bird who's just about to take off - running fast, flapping those wings - sort of floating between steps on the ground!!!! I love the book. I love how it works through the different sounds, and keeps it simple enough to make a child want more. My little girl loves to colour in the pictures too. I have a little boy who I intend to use the book with too, so have photocopied the pages for my girl- this works out great as when we do the lesson she puts the different sound pages ( 1st student page of each chapter ) in front of her to help her sound out the words. This may be tedious if she had to flip back in the book to find the right page when she ( inevitably) forgets some sounds. It helps her confidence to know she just has to scan the photocopied pages on the table to spot the sound - brilliantly portayed by an image. I got the book on desertcart uk, then afterwards found out on desertcart U.S. that there's a dvd with the book too. I hung the expense (!!!!!!)and ended up getting another copy to have the dvd. It is worth it, I'd say for the added interest ( she buzzes off the 'Your score is 100'!!! ) It is American English, though, and some sounds do sound different!!! Just be there to say 'Giggle Bunny's American, we say it differently'......!!!!! I also got my daughter the Fun with Phonics ( BBC ) dvd and started watching it with her from now - unit 7. She picks up lots of sounds, and I think it's a good point to introduce other sounds to come. I'm really chuffed at the progress my 4 year old is making. I push a little, and heap on the praise. It's true that at times it seems like it's not going in ,then suddenly she'll just read you a word off the page!!!! The book seems to go at a realistic pace. Some words that have been seen alot in the book are not underlined by sound, the child is expected to know them, so read them without sounding first. Personally, I let my girl do as she wishes here - she prefers to sound the word, so I let her. Sometimes she says a sound underlined word right off, so I would say don't push the child to read the word just because the book says it's been seen enough to recognise it. The child has to feel safe before taking to flight!!!! Be there as a co-pilot!! Let them call for help as they need, otherwise, once you've read them that first page of the chapter, let them flap their wings and try!!!!!!!!! It's such a heck of a skill to watch them learn. Enjoy the priveledge of being a part of it!!!!!!!!! ## Features - Mountcastle Company ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | 393,184 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) 228 in Classroom Planning 970 in Home Schooling 6,051 in Parenting (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,996 Reviews | ## Images ![The Reading Lesson - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tUyFrjCzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great for teaching reading - my son loves it! *by T***A on 28 April 2016* This is a wonderful, wonderful book to teach your child to read. I bought this book mid-January and started using it more or less straight away. Now, about 4 months later, we're on lesson 10 and my son is an impressively good reader. He turns 5 in August and will be starting school then. However, the main reason I decided to start teaching him to read is that he had taken a great interest in reading and was always trying to read words on my/his t-shirts, signs around him, titles of books, etc. I started teaching him somewhat adhoc-ly (I know that's not a word :) but decided I needed something more systematic. This book fits the bill. It's very systematic and gradually builds the child's confidence and skills. It's not rushed or too basic - just right (at least for us). I also love the design of the book - very uncluttered, large print and pictures on the page to colour. I found the pictures very useful to keep my son's interest - I use it as a sort of reward and we also tick each page once he's done with it (he loves ticking the page). Do take the time to read the instructions and understand the system before starting him off. For example, it tells you about the progress chart at the back - but if you don't read the instructions, you might miss it. We've been ticking off and dating the progress chart and my son loves that as well - seeing his progress, even if he doesn't understand the dates. To start with, I stuck with just a couple of pages per day, but now sometimes, we do 4 or more pages, depending on how easy/complicated the pages are. I try not to do much at once, but enough to make him feel like he's accomplished something. To improve his reading even further, I would suggest buying other books that you can read together and that won't feel like "work". Although he loves using this book, he sees it as his reading "work" (probably because that's what I call it). But we also use Usborne's My Very First Reading books (note: not "First Reading," but "My Very First Reading") which are great for learning to read, but not systematic like The Reading Lesson. So I use the Reading Lesson for teaching him and My VFR for practice . And he doesn't see Usborne's as "work" - just our usual reading together (I make sure not to call it "work") so it doesn't become tedious for him. If your child is ready - buy this book, I think it's great and works well for us. About the book being American - as others have mentioned, the only difference I've noticed is in the spelling of "mom" instead of "mum" and this doesn't really matter. Even if there are other words (I wasn't educated in the English system, so there might be other differences that I didn't notice), the important thing is that your child learns and enjoys to read, and these differences can (and will) easily be corrected later. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ It works!! *by F***E on 30 January 2011* I'm British, and live in France with my French husband and 2 young children. Keen to teach my 4 year daughter to read English, I started this book last summer. She won't be taught to read English at school in France any time soon... We've worked steadily on the book, and now, nearing the end of chapter 7 of 20, I liken her in my mind to a bird who's just about to take off - running fast, flapping those wings - sort of floating between steps on the ground!!!! I love the book. I love how it works through the different sounds, and keeps it simple enough to make a child want more. My little girl loves to colour in the pictures too. I have a little boy who I intend to use the book with too, so have photocopied the pages for my girl- this works out great as when we do the lesson she puts the different sound pages ( 1st student page of each chapter ) in front of her to help her sound out the words. This may be tedious if she had to flip back in the book to find the right page when she ( inevitably) forgets some sounds. It helps her confidence to know she just has to scan the photocopied pages on the table to spot the sound - brilliantly portayed by an image. I got the book on Amazon uk, then afterwards found out on Amazon U.S. that there's a dvd with the book too. I hung the expense (!!!!!!)and ended up getting another copy to have the dvd. It is worth it, I'd say for the added interest ( she buzzes off the 'Your score is 100'!!! ) It is American English, though, and some sounds do sound different!!! Just be there to say 'Giggle Bunny's American, we say it differently'......!!!!! I also got my daughter the Fun with Phonics ( BBC ) dvd and started watching it with her from now - unit 7. She picks up lots of sounds, and I think it's a good point to introduce other sounds to come. I'm really chuffed at the progress my 4 year old is making. I push a little, and heap on the praise. It's true that at times it seems like it's not going in ,then suddenly she'll just read you a word off the page!!!! The book seems to go at a realistic pace. Some words that have been seen alot in the book are not underlined by sound, the child is expected to know them, so read them without sounding first. Personally, I let my girl do as she wishes here - she prefers to sound the word, so I let her. Sometimes she says a sound underlined word right off, so I would say don't push the child to read the word just because the book says it's been seen enough to recognise it. The child has to feel safe before taking to flight!!!! Be there as a co-pilot!! Let them call for help as they need, otherwise, once you've read them that first page of the chapter, let them flap their wings and try!!!!!!!!! It's such a heck of a skill to watch them learn. Enjoy the priveledge of being a part of it!!!!!!!!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can't recommend it enough! *by L***H on 9 March 2013* I bought this book recently for my 3 and a half year old son, hoping that he might get the hang of simple blending of sounds before starting Reception class in September. His birthday is late July so he will be young for his year and I didn't want him to start school playing catch-up with the older children. As a primary school teacher myself I was looking for an alternative to the big reading schemes that are often found in schools today as a) they can be very expensive and b) I think they are often too repetitive and boring! I thought it'd be nice for him to have something different at home. Having read lots of reviews I finally settled on this book. I must add at this point that my son already knew his letter sounds before starting this book, but had no other phonic skills - he couldn't blend sounds etc. So we weren't starting quite from scratch (however the book is perfectly suitable for you if you are as it works through letters and their sounds at the start of each chapter), but he could in no way shape or form "read". We have been doing just 5-10 minutes each day for the past week and he is now on chapter 4, he can read short sentences and is able to sound out and blend pretty much any 3 letter word. He is at the stage I was hoping he would be at in 6 months, after only 1 week! As his mum I am so proud to see him reading already (and he is loving it too!), but as a primary school teacher I'm astonished! I have never seen any child progress like this in their reading before, and I am not claiming that my son is einstein, I think his progress is totally down to this excellent book. I would not hesitate to use it in my professional life! I only have a couple of points that are at all negative (and they are totally outweighed by the brilliance of the book). Firstly, the typeface uses the letter 'a' in the same way that this Amazon typeface does, rather than the way that children are taught to write it. This confused my son for a couple of days but he soon accepted that it could be written either way but sounds the same. So actually, in the long run, it may actually have been a good thing to get over that little hurdle so early on in his reading career! Secondly, it is an American book so there are a few "moms" etc. We tend to just ignore these or talk about how Americans say things differently. So again, not a massive negative, just something to be aware of if Americanisms annoy you! So, if you're thinking about buying a book to teacher your child to read, or improve their reading skills, definitely buy this one! You certainly won't regret it and I have no doubt you'll be astonished at the progress your child will make. My son has 6 months before starting Reception class and at this rate I can't possibly imagine how confident he will be at reading, but I can't wait to see! ## Frequently Bought Together - The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons (1) (The Reading Lesson series) - Teach Me Writing: Learn handwriting, a companion to The Reading Lesson book (The Reading Lesson series) - Learn to Read Activity Book: 101 Fun Phonics Lessons to Teach Your Child to Read (Phonics Makes Readers) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/49037629-the-reading-lesson](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/49037629-the-reading-lesson) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-05-31*