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Hello again! My 6 year old son has just finished up MFW K curriculum. He is reading very short stories made up of simple 3-4 letter words. He can write all letters. I’m a little confused as to where I need to go from here. I looked up the Pathway Primer and Days Go By and liked them. I also noticed they have workbooks to go along. Would those be a supplement to your Delightful Reading program? Also, I viewed a sample of Delightful Handwriting and am wondering if I need to order that as he can already write all his letters. Thank you kindly!
We did not use any curriculum for reading or writing. IMO, once he can write his letters, you can move on to basic copywork. Start with just a word or two each day, and build up from there. My almost 6 yo DS does about 2 lines each day. As for reading, you can use a reader book like Days Go By, or you can just get other books for him to read to you. Mostly what he needs is practice!
Well, hello again! No curriculum for reading, really? Hmmmm, not sure how I’d go about teaching him though because he only knows simple words and a few sight words. With MFW, he was taught by sounding out the letters but from what I’ve read, Charlotte Mason didn’t believe in that method. So, did you teach basically everything as sight word/memorization?
In regards to writing, I was thinking the same thing. Copywork will improve his formation and neatness. I downloaded copywork from here but I was disappointed to find that the letters, neither capital or lowercase (ex: f, h) extend to the top line, have you seen that? I wonder why that is. Thanks so much for writing!
I got some Bible reader books from our church library and we just worked our way through them. They started as mostly CVC words, and we did some sight words too. He got better as he went along! He now reads at a 6th grade level.
I have made my own copywork from a website that’s something like worksheetworks or something like that. For next year I got a used copy of the queen homeschool copywork for little boys. We’ve also just done copywork from the Bible verses we are memorizing each week. Another way to drill it in!
Amanda, what style of writing do you want him to do? Zaner Blouser, D’Nealian, HWT, Modern, or Italics? There are others, but those are the main ones. Compare them and see what you like. For writnig letters and early copywork, I liked copywork that my child could trace over.
I don’t recommend a whole word/sight word only method; I disagree with CM there (if that’s what she promoted, which was becoming popular at that time, but is a failuer in the gov’t. school system as we can see now). IMO and perspective after having a child I didn’t concentrate on phonics with, continue with a phonics program. Even though my son ended up an excellent reader, nevertheless, he struggles with spelling and I see, looking back, that I did not place enough emphasis on phonics. THankfully, his reading is excellent and advanced, but he struggles with pronunciation of things due to that gap that I am dealing with now with Megawords(phonics for older children).
The readers you mentioned are great. I also recommend R&S’s others smaller readers, too. I don’t know anything about the workbooks. Also, Elson Readers are full of awesome literature and poetry. I know their workbooks are very good, though I wouldn’t do much writing, spelling and vocab. drill at his age, just concentrate on the phonics and enjoy the stories.
Mott Media also has some good phonics materials.
Other readers are Frog and Toad and others for that age at Yesterday’s Classics.
Beechick’s 3R’s under Reading can probably give you much of what you need to teach him to read; just don’t forget phonics and combine with the need to just memorize some words that don’t fit the rules.
The most important part is developing a love for reading and a desire to do things well.
Oh, and the McGuffey readers are excellent phonics; they’d be a better base for teaching to read than the Days Go By. There are workbooks for them too, but I don’t necessarily think that workbooks are necessary at his age to teach basic phonics.
http://www.mottmedia.com/pages/publications.asp?Pub=mcguffey
The Phonics Made Plain cards are helpful to use alongside the McGuffeys and as I said above, Beechick’s 3R’s, reading booklet.
So my opinion on the order of teaching phonics:
McGuffey’s
Elson
Practice readers to support phonics-based reading:
Treadwell Readers and young books from Yesterday’s Classics (also for free at Baldwin Project)
All the Rod and Staff readers
Others like Frog and Toad.
Ladies, thank you so much for your input. It helps tremendously! I believe we’re going to go with Pathway Readers and I will definitely be picking up a copy of Beechick’s 3 R’s. I’ve found a lot of resources for copywork on Pinterest and I very much like the idea of copying bible verses. Oh and to answer your question Rachel, he has learned the basic print which I imagine would be considered Blouser. Thanks again and Blessings!
My rising 1st grader (one of them) is a fluent reader. She started reading at age 3 on her own and I still taught her phonics through last year (K). This year her LA consists of …
SCM Copybook Vols 2 & 3
Treadwell Third Reader (then Elson Third Reader when she finishes Treadwell)
Reading/Narrating from ~ My Book House, CHOW, 50 Famous Stories Retold, Viking Tales, Burgess Adventure books, and Mod 1/2/3 picture books.
My other rising 1st grader is a non-reader. His LA looks like this:
Delightful Handwriting
Delightful Reading & Alpha Phonics
God Is Good (R&S) & Treadwell Primer Readers
Narrating from stories read to him.
Again, I *love* Beechick and SCM’s book Hearing and Reading, Telling and Writing has been invaluable.
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