alisoncooks Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 ....the programs/games I already have? I am interested in Happy Phonics for my 6yo (I also have a 4yo following quickly behind her.) We are currently using (loosely) OPGTR, ClickNRead Phonics, Starfall, Bloomfield's Let's Read readers (for fluency practice), ETC. I have the Evan Moor "Take it to your seat phonics centers" for PreK and K, which cover the following topics through phonics center activities: visual discrimination rhyming words identifying like letters recognizing & matching upper- & lowercase letters listening for initial consonant sounds listening for final consonant sounds word families short vowels counting syllables We also have the file folder games from AAR LEVEL 1. So....is Happy Phonics so fabulous that I absolutely MUST add it to my phonics arsenal? Or pass? (I have a wiggly girl who despises writing and I'm trying to separate our current reading/writing times.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thundersweet Posted August 14, 2012 Share Posted August 14, 2012 I have it and think it's great. However, I don't use it often enough. I just plain forget. My ds did like the games we played. I say go for it! Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Happy Phonics shines at teaching the phonograms in the context of real words. I've used this with 3 dc, and *often* it's one time through a game and that phonogram sound is known. A few times through the game and the child is reading pretty much any word containing that phonogram (barring any LD...which I have experienced;)...even with the LD, it is no longer learning the phonograms that trips us up). You will probably find some overlap between Happy Phonics and the Evan Moore centers. (I can't say for sure as I don't have the Evan Moore book.) Happy Phonics has some nice phonemic awareness games. I would use Happy Phonics instead of the computer programs and ETC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
campmom Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 We have enjoyed Happy Phonics at our house also. If your children like "playing games". Mine do! And they are quicker than doing alot of writing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shinyhappypeople Posted August 15, 2012 Share Posted August 15, 2012 Happy Phonics teaching reading through a 4th grade level, I think. So, the games cover what you mentioned plus a lot more. You don't absolutely have to have it, but if your kids like games, I think it's a good investment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted August 15, 2012 Author Share Posted August 15, 2012 Shew! Glad to hear some more positive feedback -- since I'd already hit purchase, LOL. DD does like games and it is such a chore to get her to do any ETC pages... so I think this will replace that, for sure. So if Happy Phonics covers up to approx. 4th grade, would you say that it is as complete in scope/sequence/content as OPGTR? Or are they 2 completely different things... (DD has not been pleased with our OPGTR-time, though I do use letter tiles, white boards, etc. to help it along...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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