Thank you! I am doing Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons with dd and she is more than halfway through it and doing great, but she has her days where she's just having a bad day and won't read or she gets goofy and gets the giggles and nothing gets done, so I set it aside, too. With ds, it was an everyday struggle. It's still not something he enjoys, but this week has been the smoothest week so far. It's been a lot less stressful, so I think this is the right choice for him.
Last year, we followed the curriculum schedule and it was perfect for him. It went at just the right pace and difficulty level and he thrived on it. Then it jumped ahead by leaps and bounds this year, but ds has plateaued in his reading progression, so there's just no way we can follow that schedule. Maybe if he was a strong reader, who loved it, but he's not. It's difficult because the readers are too easy for him, even the hardest ones, but he's also struggling with the regular chapter books. So, I guess we just have to go at a slower pace. He made a remark today about how there's just so many words and they're all squished together, so I guess it will just take him awhile to get used to pages with lots of words on them. To give an idea of the books he's reading, this is the one he's reading right now:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Whipping-Boy- ... 0060521228