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I started with that book but moved to https://reading.com - it is the same pedagogy and essentially the same curriculum but with more engaging stories, larger fonts, and interactive sliders my kids enjoyed.

To be super clear this isn’t an app you hand your kids. You still sit side by side and teach the lessons.

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That looks pretty nice - my youngest lost interest once the stories started, and I think that was partly because the stories weren't particularly engaging. But overall I was extremely impressed with the pedagogy, it was so easy it felt like cheating!

Now I need to figure out a fun way to do spelling, since both of the kids like to write but English is really tricky to spell.

My kids are motivated by writing letters to friends and family which we either mail or send a photo of via Signal. All the writing motivates spelling.

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