countrymum Posted February 3, 2018 Share Posted February 3, 2018 (edited) I am wondering what to do next year so first I'll tell you where we are. My son has gone through AAR 2. Also he knows many more phonograms than that as I have taught them as they have cone up in reading. He knows the following phonics concepts: r controlled, silent E, all blends, many digraphs/ diphthongs (ee, ie, ay, ai, ue, aw, au, oy, oi, eigh, and several more), soft c and g when followed by e,i,y, 3 syllable division rules, been introduced to -le words, knows about base words and endings. He can read a book like make way for ducklings or Flip in several sessions with minimal help. Some of the digraphs he has to be reminded to look for. For example in the word soil, he misreads it, I say what does oi say? Then he corrects and goes on. His syllable division is almost always automatic. I don't really wish to do AAR 3 and 4. I know Abeka phonics are good. Could I do Abeka letters and sounds 1 or 2 to cement and finish up phonics? Which would be better? He will be 7. Or should I just plow through AAR 3 and 4? Edited February 3, 2018 by Rjha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathmarm Posted February 4, 2018 Share Posted February 4, 2018 It sounds like you should just keep him reading all summer long and make a decision closer to the fall on whether or not you need to invest $$$ in more reading programs to round out his abilities. Make 10 minutes to buddy read with him each day and just keep practicing him and teaching him up until the next school year and see how far he can get. We do home made phonics from a scope and sequence, and buddy read from lots of library books. We teach bigger phonics skills via informal little games. For advanced phonics/multisyllable words, NONSENSE WORDS are still our friend. When your kid easily reads "Spimblequilcken dashed beyond the oogleboar and Whistrafram paddled the kayak furiously into the mist" easily you know they are applying those phonics skill with automatically. To have some external measure for his independent reading we used some public school reading books for the K-3 range that we got for cheap at used book sales or online and we purchased several levels of older SRA Open Court Decodables and that's been more than enough for us. We have a kid who loves "little books" ie readers so we get a lot of mileage out of our Reading AZ, but I don't feel that it was necessary, but we definitely liked Reading AZ, but it's $$$ for just one kid (we have 3 that use it, but only the youngest LOVES it). Our library kids section is fairly well organized and they have several books marked by "grade level", so perhaps you could check and see if your library offers something similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted February 16, 2018 Share Posted February 16, 2018 ABeka and Phonics Pathways are both good for upper level phonics. A Beka goes to about a 3rd grade level, Phonics Pathways to a 4th grade level. PP also has some tips in the back for working in spelling. You could do a quick run through of my Syllables lessons to finish out everything quick before studying more in depth, phonics to a 12th grade level, with spelling rules. If you do one a day, it will take 2 weeks. http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/syllablesspellsu.html Literacy is more highly correlated with earnings than IQ, and the better and higher grade level you read, the easier it is to do independent work, so I think it is worth it to spend the effort up front to increase the chance of success in the future, whatever you choose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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