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There’s a lot of benefit to not curriculum hopping every year or even multiple times per year. Children really benefit from consistency in nearly every facet of life.

Thank you so much for the review and the comparisons! I love the boxes from Michael’s you use to store your cards. Do you by chance know the demensions so I can order them online?

This very helpful as a mom who’s looking for LA courses after TGATB kinder prep and is trying to decide between AAR and LOE.

Used LOE with my son 6 years ago and needed to be reminded about how great this program is for my daughter. Was considering AAR but think I'll stick with what I am familiar with. Thanks for the great review. You are a natural at sharing your experience on here, so subscribing :)

Great review! Really enjoyed it as my 4 yr old daughter is currently wanting to start a formal curriculum. I was looking for a comparison of TGTB and Logic of English and your video has really helped me out! Thank you so much😁

This is great thank you! My daughter gets frustrated when she has a sound down and then now there is a new way for that sound so I think teaching all the sounds makes sense. Been debating what program to do but I keep coming back to this. But she is almost at second grade level would it be fine to go straight to level c?

Could we start to level c ? She is in 2nd grade

I’m switching from all about reading right now because of the same exact reason 😅 she just isn’t engaged hates those pages full of words & honestly so do I.

Love your video!!!

This was a super helpful video! Thank you!

This is such a great review, thank you! We're just starting TGTB kindergarten and now I feel like I have a second option if it isn't a great fit!! Thanks for the super in depth explanation and also for sharing the organizational stuff (boxes etc) from micheals. You rock!

Thank you so much for your video! I'm looking around, and LOE is a top contender. I'm wondering, how does it handle blending? You know that really important jump where kids take single letters and are able to put them together to read words. I'm curious how LOE approaches this.

Living Book Press has reprinted the Burgess books with more pictures that are in color. I have purchased from them, but I'm not affiliated with them, and I had a great experience.

Wonderful review!! Thank you so much! I’ve been spending all summer trying to decide which LA curriculum to get for my daughter who’s starting K level. She’s such a kinesthetic learner and appreciates being able to learn through games, handling loose parts. But when it came to finding something for reading and phonics I was so overwhelmed by the options out there. I actually looked at LoE a while ago but the price put me off…but I have to say, I can understand why it’s priced higher than other curricula. It really does provide a deeper foundation for learning phonics. Before deciding to purchase LoE I wanted to go ahead and see if my daughter was receptive to learning that some letters actually make MORE than one sound. And even though she’s only 5 she is doing great! She knows that Aa makes 3 sounds and she can say all 3. She knows that Cc says /k/ AND sometimes it also says /s/. I know some parents might think these phonics rules are “too much” for a beginner, but I would argue that it’s actually easier for them to learn all the phonograms at the onset of their reading journey, rather than get into habits that then have to be adjusted/mended later down the line. Like you mentioned in the video when your daughter was trying to pronounce “salt” and was confused as to why the Aa sounded differently than she had previously been taught. I don’t want to have to always say “it’s an exception”. Because that’s not a true explanation. I want her to be able to know that it’s because some letters make multiple sounds.

Is it okay just to buy Level A at first? I just ordered level A. I’ll be using it for 2 kids so I added a extra workbook. Should I have bought a extra of anything else to be able to use it for 2?

8:28 That's genius! It prevents guessing based on pictures!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for this comprehensive review!!! This is exactly what I’d been searching for!!

Your review was SO helpful! Made me feel confident in my decision to go with LOE. I'm just not sure where I want to start my son. He is in Kindergarten now and we have 8 lessons left in "How to teach you child to read in 100 easy lessons". So he is reading and is doing well but definitely has signs of dyslexia. Fluency could be better. Because I'm seeing these signs and I struggled with reading as a child I want to build strong reading skills with my son. So I want to start LOE for 1st grade and want to do cursive. Do you think LOE A is too easy for a 1st grader who is reading? "100 easy lessons" doesn't teach all the sounds "A" makes like LOE, just short and long. So I'm on the fence if I should skip LOE A and go straight to B. Your advice is really appreciated.

Did you continue onto the Essentials? If so, did you continue to enjoy it?

I love this! Thank you for making a video. I could have literally done a video word for word.. Except I haven't tried LOE yet! ( So you're hopefully like the "after" version of me😅). I,too, get frustrated they there is no "why" answers and I,too, have a child that learns the same type of way ( wiggly, unmotivated unless there is a game of some kind, etc). Excited to try this

Hey girl! Thank you for this video. We have been struggling with LA for awhile now. I just ordered LOE and was just watching videos to see how to organize all the components. I have to say I love how real you are, you are awesome and so relatable. Your awesome I subscribed hope you post more videos.

I’m so glad you put this review together! AAR drives me crazy. I know it’s a very unpopular opinion. I love TG&TB, but not for learning to read. I’m a huge fan of LOE. I think you’ve convinced me to try cursive with my next child.

My daughter has also loved LOE and sounds very similar to yours. (She also loved stacking blocks, which I almost skipped too). I'd love to know what other programs you used for other subjects with a child with an active learning style?

This was very helpful as someone who uses those other curriculums with a very frustrated child! I’m going to get the cursive with my struggling 8 year old (older sister is dyslexic so I am sure he is too), but the manuscript I will plan to use with our 4 year old in September. I like they can use different “levels” of the same level for my older son. Thanks for dharing

Can we start with loe level c or d for 2nd grader or is it necessary to start with b?

Hey! Could you share the link to those organizer boxes in your description please?

Does the curriculum come with Pdf of the artist paintings or do you have to search for them on the web?

HI will this work for a mostly non verbal autistic 6 year old child? He knows how to read via Bob books. Thanks

Thank you ...was wondering about this program.

My daughter is also crazy about LOE and this has been really working well for us. Yes, US, as I enjoy teaching it as well. We're about to finish B, and I was thinking of switching to AAR just because I'm curious. Just the other day, my daughter begged that we do a lesson on her "yellow book", then I realized there is no need to switch. We are sticking to LOE.

Love that you call it dragon school ❤️

Thank you so much for this helpful video! I have a question- when you estimate the 30-45 minutes a day spent on lessons, does that include the other curriculums you mention (right start and torch light)? Or is your school day longer than the 45 minutes each day to include other curriculums? I am a beginner trying to get a picture of what a day might look like for my kindergartener next year. :) thanks again, this video is so helpful to so many parents!

Do you plan on going back to TGTB eventually?

Hi, did you buy the LOE game book?

Ma'am please level A page by page work book flip through....

Thank you for such a detailed review! I almost didn’t watch it bc it was so long LOL but I’m glad I did. Super helpful.

I love that she calls it Dragon school. I might adopt that.

Thank you so much for your review, it is so helpful. I have all the levels of AAR and have used it with my oldest and on the last level with her. However for my so it seems like LOE might be a better fit because of all the games. I just don't know if I can bring myself to purchase another curriculum. It's also a little expensive. Do you think it's possible to find LOE used?

Fantastic review, I am totally switching. We have been doing Good and the Beautiful and my son just can't wait for it to be over. But with our Right Start math he LOVES the games.

Would you recommend starting with A even if you have finished AAR 1? Or would it be ok to start with B? Thank you for this review! I have been trying to decide what I wanted to use.

Hi There, your reviews are amazing and have really helped us cut through the noise and solidify our curriculum. We have landed on two of your suggestions (RightStart Math and LOE Foundations) independently for our 1st grader, and are looking for something to supplement for Science and Nature type stuff, as well as possibly art. Curious what you would suggest for B&L in terms of picking and choosing versus buying their 1st year whole packet (which has things like Language Arts which we won't need). BTW, we are out of the country so the degree to which we need to buy physical books to supplement the PDFs will be an issue/consideration for us.

Thanks for your review I was between all of these for my kindergartner and learning all the sounds for each letter/combination sealed it for me!!!

This was so so helpful! I’ve been looking everywhere for these types of differences between AAR and LOE! Thank you!!

This is helpful - I bought LOE A and am about 9 lessons in, and we're honestly NOT enjoying it (well, my 6yo and I don't like it, my 4yo does :P ) I've been thinking about switching to AAR, so it's helpful to hear what you DIDN'T like about it! Hmm... I actually didn't like the fact that LOE teaches all the sounds up front - it felt really overwhelming. I know AAR does teach them, maybe starting in Level 2, but after they have the basic sounds down and are have some reading under their belt. My intuition is that my 6yo needs to feel like he is actually reading in order to be motivated to keep learning, and it feels like a lot of details before he's actually reading interesting books. That was something I really liked about AAR, that the readers are actually interesting, despite being CVC. Ah...so hard to choose! I do kind of wish I'd tried AAR first, though, just because they have a 1 year guarantee, whereas LOE returns have to be in pristine condition, which mine aren't. Lots to think about - thank you for the review!

Thanks for this review - just what I needed. Appreciate your thoughts on why the other program did not work for your daughter and her learning style!

This was such an informative and helpful video! It’s hard to picture the breakdown and how a typical day would be based on just the website. Thank you!

Are you still using blossom and root too?

Do you need to get level A to have everything you need in the next level and so on? I’m homeschooling for the first time this year and my son has dyslexia so I’m looking for a program to help him keep exercising the skills that were being taught to him with a specialist. I’m looking to use this on top of his curriculum and am wondering also if it would be too much or would it be something that could be used a few times a week as supplemental? Appreciate you sharing your video and hope to get your opinion.

Gosh I could sob. I wish I had found this review last year when I was in the fence. I love it and would have done it for k.

Thank you thank you this is so helpful. Cuz I also wanted to do cursive first and I let people talk me out of it. So I’m going for it for first grade