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Thoughts on Progressive Phonics?
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It’s nice that it’s free! http://progressivephonics.com/~suzettew/
Have you used it and liked it? Not liked it? Are there any holes in the program? Would it be good to supplement it with anything?
I’m considering switching over from Sing Spell Read Write for 1st grade phonics, but I don’t want to step down in thoroughness to do so.
I used this about 2-3 yrs ago when I first started teaching my son to read. I didn’t have too many problems with the program. The back and forth between my son and me with it got crazy at times. I did stop using it though because at that time it wasn’t finished and we had no where to go. I also started looking more into teaching reading and wanted to include having my son make the words. You could have your child do that to help them know the words.
I now use the Mcguffy readers that are free online. I use them much like TaylorMade does in this post http://simplycharlottemason.com/scmforum/topic/how-do-you-use-mcguffeys. I like how after learning a few words you get into reading full sentances.
I’m trying to remember if there was any values I wouldn’t want to be teaching my son but can’t come up with anything. My son thought the stories were funny and enjoyed reading with them.
I tried using it with my already reading (but needing work to improve reading and they seemed to have lost their phonics basics…) – I’m not sure it helped at all. The kids did seem to like the stories, but they are total twaddle stories in my opinion…
This is truly an honest question…..are there beginning phonics readers that aren’t twaddle? I always thought that was a stage you just had to get through. Because how well can a person really write when they can only use words with specific sounds? I’d love to know of some non-twaddly readers!
I just wanted to thank you for sharing this, we tried it this morning and my dd thought the stories were funny 🙂 I have a self-concious reader, if that makes sense? She gets hung up on the blended-consonants and then doesn’t want to continue reading aloud if she uses the wrong pronunciation. >sigh< I have used every reader I can get my hands on at home and was trying to find more for practice. I like the idea of writing the words as they learn the word sounds. We’ve use tiles, etc before but apparently I needed this website to point out the obvious?? 🙂 LOL! Oh well, we’ll try it for awhile and see where it goes. My hope is that is reinforces what she already knows and builds confidence with her reading skills. Again, thank you!! 🙂
This is truly an honest question…..are there beginning phonics readers that aren’t twaddle?
I have to agree (even though we haven’t done Delightful Reading…)
After a while with the Progressive Phonics – I wanted to ripe my eyes out (figurative speaking) from their stories… I guess I have different twaddle levels.
(I used 100 EZ lessons with my 4yo (had done different stuff with my older 2) – and although the stories in that book were twaddly, I didn’t find them as bad…. We are now reading the Treadwell Primer (quite easily), and she is also reading me “Make Way for Ducklings” – which is quite challenging for her, but is going quite well.
We loved progressive phonics – the FREE aspect is great!
My son had his confidence destroyed in kindergarten. The way progressive phonics is designed for parent and child to read together was essential to get him learning again. He sat in my lap and we read together. It was perfect.
I am not sure I would call the stories twaddle – but they are crazy lol. If you don’t care for that kind of totally off the wall humor, I can see that these would not be the readers for you. My son thought they were alternately hilarious and confusing (sometimes there were puns that he did not get) – and the confusing part led to some good discussions. Ultimately, I found the style to be engaging to the reader, and this was accomplished in large part through the weirdness of the stories.
After he was reading well enough to move on to the beginning reader type “real book” we left off using progessive phonics, so we did not finish the program. It was important to me to get my son past the “I am learning to read” stage (in his own mind) and into the “I can read” stage.
I do enthusiastically recommend progressive phonics – it is free to try, and it might just be the perfect fit.
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