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  1. I love scripted lessons.

     

    Our duds:

     

    • Sound Beginnings and WRTR: I couldn't even start with these. I like visually appealing programs. I love AAS.
    • Prima Latina: The accent drove me nuts. I didn't find a Latin program I liked. We've decided to start w/ French.
    • Song School Latin: It was too cheezy for me.
    • FIAR: love the book list, but is has way to much prep work. I like open and go.
    • Child Size masterpieces: We do a monthly artist study, and that is working much better for us.
    • HWOT: I like the prek book. I don't like it after that.

  2. Since she is only 4 I'd start funnix 2 and take AAS1 slowly at first. Then if she is doing better with one over the other, I'd go with that. My DS1 did 100 EZ lessosn at 3/early4 and kept reading up a storm. We didn't start AAS1 until he was 6 (he went to kindergarten.) He did fine reading reading reading at 4/5.

     

    My DS2 is on lesson 44 in funnix. I've started him on the AAS1 cards, but I won't do the next steps for a while. I will probably follow the above advice with him.

  3. They really go over the vowel combinations a lot in the upcoming lessons. I rather like how they do it:) I think taking a break w/ blocks is a great idea. When ds1 was doing 100 EZ lessons at 3 yrs old, we took a week or two off when he got to the th sound. I was pointing the sound out in everyday life. When we went back he had no problem:)

  4. We just did lesson 40. He had a little trouble at first, but I just reminded him to look for the blue letters. Did they just introduce long a, because they go over it with great repetition after that. Whenever I hit something he doesn't get at first or a sound he is having trouble with (th) we repeat lessons a few times before moving on. I did the same w/ 100 EZ lesson w/ DS1.

     

    As a former kindergarten teacher I love how they introduce long vowel sounds with short sounds. It allows the student to read so much more interesting sentences from the beginning.:)

  5. I'm also a kindergarten teacher. The term sight word refers to teaching words to be recognized without sounding them out. When you do teach words phonetically and the child can read them without needing to sound them out that is reading with automaticity not reading it as a sight word. The sight word approach is outside of phonics. If you show a child the word have and he says here, you have mislead him away from phonics no matter how much phonics you are doing in addition to sight words.

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