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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a scripted reading primer first published in 1983 by Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, and Elaine Bruner, drawing on the Direct Instruction Distar Reading program. The book contains 100 twenty-minute lessons that move a non-reader through phonemic awareness, decoding of a modified orthography with accent marks and joined letters, and gradual release into standard text by lesson 100. Parents read the scripted teacher lines and cue student responses. The program remains widely used as a one-and-done early reading resource.
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