I've never taught a kid from K!

[VickiW]

I've been homeschooling for several years but now the baby is starting K and I've stalled in choosing a phonics curriculum. My other two kiddos went to the MP school in Louisville when they were younger and when we moved, we took MP school in a box and worked it from home. Over the years we have gradually transitioned to some other wonderful curricula such as PHP. I thought this year I would simply come online and purchase K in a box from PHP. 

 

In all honesty, i'm burned out and exhausted. I need a break from the rigor the MP demands. Looking at their phonics program makes me want to throw up. There has to be a more gentle way that doesn't involve 27 books and a secret decoder ring. 

 

Can anyone identify?

 

Help me choose a phonics program for the DD. Suggestions please!

[Slache]

Book: Phonics Pathways

 

Game: Happy Phonics

 

Online: Starfall

 

I'm using Reading Lessons Through Literature which is a Spalding spinoff and we really like it.

Edited August 8, 2016 by Slache

[ErinE]

I taught my daughter to read using The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading, a white board, and dry erase markers. No games, no drilling, just 10-15 minutes every day.

[justasque]

I assume you've been reading to and with your dd all along.  Different kids benefit from different approaches.  Can you give us an idea of how much your dd has picked up already, and what you are doing that she seems receptive to?  Is she a workbook kid, a game kid, a snuggle with mom and talk about the text kid?

 

[Tanikit]

How many children do you have? It is exhausting and also boring to teach reading over and over again especially if using the same curriculum. How much phonics have you taught up to now - you say you have never taught from K but that does not mean you do not know how to do it.

 

Why don't you just get some books for reading - maybe from a library where they are arranged from easy to more difficult readers or where you can ask for help. Pick a book and then teach it to your child and each day just work on reading - this is about as gentle as you can get, but it does mean that you need to know all the phonics yourself and be able to teach it (The Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading is great for teaching the parent even if you never use the book with the child). If you know what they should know and what comes next then you just point to the words your child is working on or should know and they read that and you read the rest - make sure the print size is big enough for a kindergartener and move from big to small print.

 

You do need them to know the phonetic sounds of the alphabet before beginning books in this way though.

 

If however you want a proper and just different curriculum there are numerous but we would need more details as justasque requested to advise properly. My younger daughter used a number of different things including Starfall, OPGTTR, Ladybird Keywords C books (the phonics books of a sight word reading series) and books I chose.

 

[ExcitedMama]

AAR is super easy and will definitely not make you want to throw up! You could also get MP K Enrichment to make K fun and interesting but not too demanding.

[Shifra]

I used Modern Curriculum Press Plaid Phonics. I taught my son to read using Book A, but they also offer a Book K for kindergarten. Rainbow Resource sells this program.

[VickiW]

Thanks for the responses! 

 

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