Skip and Daisy Learn to Read Review & Giveaway {Closed}
Introduction
Skip and Daisy Learn to Read is a phonics based reading program consisting of 3 DVDs and 3 workbooks. This program is designed to take beginning readers and turn them into proficient readers within 3-6 months using repetition through sight words, phonics, and sentences. The program is aimed at children in grades K-4.
Why We Like Skip and Daisy
- The portability of the program is a great benefit in our home. We were able to take a DVD and workbook with us on our two week vacation allowing for maximum learning while on the road and downtime. This was particularly great on the longer portions of traveling. We would put the DVD in our van’s movie playing system and our two youngest boys (3-year-old and 5-year-old) were excited and engaged in the reading lesson the entire time it played.
- The ability to use multiple approaches in learning. Although the boys enjoy watching the DVD portion of Skip and Daisy, they equally enjoy doing the workbooks as well. Our oldest son is really enjoying the reading and writing portions of the workbook, it is right up his alley.
- Multiple ages can learn at the same time.Because of the differences in age, my boys are at different reading levels. So while our youngest son (3-year-old) is a beginning reader, our oldest son (5-year-old) is a bit more advanced, they are still both able to enjoy the program on varying levels. And their big sister (7th grader) is also enjoying the boys reading to her from their workbook.
- Being able to start and stop lessons when needed. Because it is a DVD, you are able to control what is being played. For instance, maybe your child did not quite get one of the new words or sounds, you can just hit the “back” button on the DVD player and the child can seamlessly practice until they are ready to move on. The same goes with being able to stop the lesson and start right back up where you left off. This has been a great feature for our eager learners!
- Family friendly characters. The boys like that Skip and Daisy are brother and sister (twins). And they really like the fact that Skip wears a superhero costume!
Why I would recommend Skip and Daisy
Simply because it is a solid program to help the beginning reader advance at their pace. It is not a high pressure program, rather it is very relaxed and flexible approach to reading not overloaded with too much work. I have watched my 5-year-old go from beginning reader to reading short chapter books in a matter of 3 months. And to be quite honest, it is our 5-year-old who is the goofiest in our family. While he does love to learn, he is so busy being a boy, sometimes his attention span can be quite short. However, this program has kept him focused and the results are amazing.
Learn More About Skip and Daisy
- You can find out more about the Learn to Read product as well as other Skip and Daisy products by visiting their website.
Skip and Daisy Learn to Read Giveaway
Would you like to win the set of Learn to Read DVDs and workbooks? TWO Hip Homeschool Moms will win this set from Skip and Daisy! Even if you don’t win, the folks at Skip and Daisy are offering our readers a discount of 10% on any purchase. Just use discount code HHM10 when you order from MilestoneReading.com.
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Anything that can help me teach my son to read.
I love that you are teach a three year old to read… that’s what I love about this…!
I agree with Kristina’s comment, anything that will help teaching reading! Love the idea that my 4 year old might also learn some too. Thanks for offering the giveaway!
I love that you can stop and start when you want and work at your own pace.
this sounds good. I have a struggling reader and maybe this would help him
I really like the idea of portability. On those busy days when we have to be on the road, we can easily pop the DVD into the van DVD player and he can watch and be carschooling!!! Love it!!! Thank you for the review, Carlie!
I also like the portability of this product. I have different children at different levels who may benefit from this program. I have never heard of this product before and will do more research. Thanks for the info.
I like so many things about it. The results you had are amazing! I have two wiggly boys too and so I know it’s hard to get them to sit still. I’ll be teaching my youngest son to read this year and I think he would love these!
Just watched some sample lessons from their website. This might prove useful for my youngest daughter who at 6 came from China last year and is having some trouble with enunciation. I’ve been using a well used SIng, Spell,Read and Write that I have used for all 3 of my other kids and she loves the tunes, but with this being so old I’ve been looking for something more updated. Have been disappointed that the SSRW curriculum hasn’t upgraded to DVD’s. So this program might suit our needs to work in conjunction with what I have. Thanks for the write up.
its been a rough road teaching my son to read after 3 girls before (they were easy), im having issues learning how to teach a boy anything, and anything that could help me would be a blessing for him and me, afer all….he deserves the best!!!
I’ve had a rough time teaching my third child. The first two pretty much learned on their own. My littlest, not so much. She’s almost 6 and I think just now starting to be ready to learn to read. I like that this program has both DVD lessons and related workbook pages.
I’m always interested in seeing new approaches to teaching reading. Would love to try it with my Autism Spectrum 6 year old.
I would love to use it with different ages.
The twin thing and it’s a dvd.
My little ones love seeing something on the screen and then being able to interact with something to do with that off screen. If they enjoy a show I will try to find a learning app that features that character. We would love to use Skip and Daisy with both our SN six year old and typically developing younger sons.
We have an 18 and 20 year, so this would be very helpful and portable for our 5 year old as she is learning to read and still following her brothers activities.
This would be perfect for my daughter!
I love that my child could learn at their own pace with this program, I have a 4 year old and we are just about to begin our learning to read journey and we havn’t chosen a curriculum yet. This would be great!
I love the ease of use…our daughter has special needs and this would be a perfect program for her.
Would love to try it!
My daughter and I would love to try this!
I would love to win these, I am working on teaching my daughter to read now!
I am looking for something new to capture the attention of my almost 4 year old. I love the fact that this is DVD based. I believe my daughter would thrive with it.
I have one child who would love to read well but struggles and another who has the ability to read well, but hates trying. I’m eager to try anything that might help the one and motivate the other!
Wow! This looks like a great program and it’s wonderful that it’s great for travel. Love:)
this looks great! I could really use some help 🙂
Jane
Wonderful! Would love to try it. Should work well on the go.
I think the DVD portion would really appeal to my VERY independent son, age 5. Watching a DVD is something he can do himself and be in total control of. I also think Skips costume would also be a common ground, today George is a pirate!
This looks great, would love to give it a try! =)
I am interested in a way to get my 6 year old focused on learning to read.
I love that different ages can enjoy this. I have a almost 4 yr old and almost 2 yr old, this would be a great addition to our family.
Love thatvit comes with dvds.
This sounds like a great approach to have in the toolset! Love that it’s travel friendly
My son says that he really wants to read, but the current program that we’re using just isn’t cutting it. Would love to win this one.
This would be great for my three kids, so they could learn to read together.
I like the idea of being able to use it with both my 3 year old and my 5 year old at the same time. My 5 year old is a very visual learner and I think the DVD aspect would help her.
This would help so much! Thanks for the chance!
This would be great For My kids. Absolutely love the idea behind it.
How it helped your 5 year old in 3 months sounds great! Would love to give it a try.
The fact that more than one age group can use it at a time.
I like that you can use it with multiple ages, multiple reading levels. Sounds like a great program!
That multiple ages and levels can benefit from it so both of my boys can use it. Plus, we can use the program at their pace.
Would love to try this out with my son, and save it for my daughter when she is old enough.
This program sounds wonderful! What a blessing it would be to our family.
I’m just beginning to teach my son and daughter sight words and they both want to read, but like yours they are 5 and almost 4. This means I need to gear the lessons differently for both. I’m also interested in something we can take with us on the road.
Sounds great!
I think we would really enjoy the flexibility of this as well as the multiple approaches.
I like the DVD part of this!
My 6yo is really struggling to “get it”. I’m looking for something that she would think was fun, not know it’s really work, and this fits the bill to a “t”.
looks interesting! I’d love to check it out…
I am hoping it will help teach our 2 children, that have been diagnosed with Autism, to learn to read.
Our 5 yo isn’t doing too bad, but we’re hoping to adopt a couple of kiddos this year who are a bit behind. Looks like this could be a great help!!
I am curious to see how my 2 year old and 4 year old could learn to read simultaneously with these books. We have struggled with keeping the younger one occupied while we work on phonics with the older child.
I am intrigued by this set. Sounds like it would be lots of fun for my kiddos. 🙂
We are looking for a phonics program to do with our girls…this might be the one!
working at our own pace is appealing to me!
This would be such a blessing, as I have a 4th grader who’s still struggling to read proficiently and a 5 year old who’s just starting to and a 2 year old who loves to be read to, and I have no doubt would enjoy this!!
My 4 year old started reading the BOB books this week!! I think this would be a great asset to our school day!
I like that the program is on DVD and workbook.
love helping our children learn to read!!
First… I love the names… Daisy is definitely one of my favorites. I’m currently looking for an alternative/supplement to what we are using for our schooling. This couldn’t have come at a better time.
Love the characters!
How great it would be to have everything needed all at once!
I like the idea that it’s not for just one type of learner as it expands to more than 1 learning style and the fact that multiple levels can learn together at the same time.
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Ann, we are so glad that you enjoy both our blog and our Facebook page! Thanks for your sweet compliment too. ~The Hip Homeschool Moms Team
Would love to give this a try.
I’m new to the homeschooling world and teaching my kids to read is my biggest fear. This would be awesome!
I like the low-key approach of the program.
I’m trying to find a good way to start my beginning reader learn to readin a fun way. Would love to win.
Like the idea of the DVDs