Phonics/Reading program with NO writing needed?

[Willow Creek Academy]

I have a child who has some pretty severe fine motor skills delays. She knows all her letters, uppercase but not lower, and all their sounds. She is very smart and has a vocabulary 1-2 years above her peers. She also has excellant memorization skills. But she cannot write at all. And she cannot use a mouse. We are working on this, trust me. In the meantime, she is ready to read.

 

Do you know of any programs where writing or a computer are not required? I let her play on Starfall with her sister, but I have to sit with her and let her point to the correct letters to make the word and she gets frustrated.

[aprilsblessings]

We are using Phonics Pathways and we do not do any of the writing. I think you can say there is no writing. The writing is "copy a few of the words daily".:001_smile:

[nmoira]

Phonics Pathways can be done without any writing.

[twoxcell]

We are using Phonics Pathways and we do not do any of the writing. I think you can say there is no writing. The writing is "copy a few of the words daily

:iagree: We use Phonics Pathways too!

[reign]

Ordinary parents guide to teaching reading! My oldest just finished it today. We loved it and it gives a great phonics base.

[kbpaulie]

I was also going to suggest Phonics Pathways (although we did PP in combbination w/ Explode the Code). I could see using PP with letter tiles if that's an option or just on it's own.

 

As early readers I also like Bob Books, Starfall books and the k12 books that you might be able to find used someplace on line.

 

And I like the LeapFrog videos such as Letter and Word Factory

Edited November 17, 2011 by kmoncelle

[kristinannie]

OPGTTR doesn't require any writing. My son didn't love that though (in fact, it caused tears). We use The Struggling Reader. It teaches phonics through play and games and I am amazed at how well it has worked for us. I also supplement that with the use of a whiteboard with magnetic tiles to work on word families.

[hollyhock]

Another option is The Reading Lesson. I used it with my 4yo and there was no writing. I really liked it and so did my son.

[chepyl]

We used 100 Easy Lessons and skipped all of the writing. It went quickly and my son loved it. Had I made him write, we would have been miserable.

[Matryoshka]

Do you know of any programs where writing or a computer are not required? I let her play on Starfall with her sister, but I have to sit with her and let her point to the correct letters to make the word and she gets frustrated.

 

Reading Reflex requires no writing. There are letter tiles (that you photocopy and cut out - very inexpensive) that you move to make the words rather than writing them.

[nansk]

Blend Phonics

 

Webster's Speller

 

Word Mastery

[hmschooling]

The Reading Lesson or Readig Made Easy are both great programs with no writing and also no prep. I also like Phonics Pathways.

[ElizabethB]

Any program can be made to work with no writing by doing the writing portion with oral spelling or oral dictation or magnetic letters or magnetic tiles.

Edited November 17, 2011 by ElizabethB

[morosophe]

For a free variation, try Blend Phonics. Since your daughter knows her capital letters, you could just teach it with capitals and work on the small versions of the letters later.

 

That's what programs like Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day do anyhow, to reduce guessing--since all letters are the same height--and because then they can start reading store names, etc., from the car, and headlines in the paper.

 

To reinforce what she's learning, instead of having her write, you could take another leaf from the Teach Your Child to Read in Just Ten Minutes a Day book and use an index card with the letter written on it--large--and have her trace. Or, you could have her use some of Handwriting Without Tears' products (or at least ideas), such as their wooden pieces for capital letters, or their other manipulatives. In a similar vein, check out the Wikki Stix alphabet cards.

 

Personally, I prefer that my children learn to write from their handwriting program, so, like many other posters here, I skipped over the writing portion of the phonics program we used with my first kid (100EZ). I'm pondering starting with capital letters and using some of those manipulatives myself for my second and third children.

[ScoutTN]

We did Phonics Pathways 100% orally. Never wrote a word.

[Willow Creek Academy]

Thanks for all the great advice. We are Jan-Nov schoolers here, so I am trying to quickly piece everything together by Dec. 1 so I can focus on the Holidays.

[curlygirlzx2]

Ordinary parents guide to teaching reading! My oldest just finished it today. We loved it and it gives a great phonics base.

 

:iagree: We used OPGTR and dd is a very strong reader. I have to say I loved the program but she didn't.

[Myeightkiddies]

Instead of writing, she can recreate the letters being learned with Play-doh (or other clay).

[rwjx2khsmj]

We did most of FLL 1&2 (the old combined version) and the first half of OPGTTR without writing. Dd didn't enjoy writing but she loved the rest of the lesson. I figured we'd catch up with writing later, and we have.