southernm Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 (edited) As I am looking through aar pre 1 I see that it works capital letters then lower case then sounds. Dd 5 recognizes And writes all her letters, but is not solid on the sounds. Could I combine the lessons for the capital, lower, and sound of each letter? Edited September 1, 2012 by southernm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FromA2Z Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 This is what we do... Day 1: UC A activity sheet A in Ziggy Zebra book Writing activities (the appendix tips) for A Go over sounds for /a/ (phonogram cards) Lesson 1 language exercise Day 2: lowercase a activity sheet A reading in Lizard Lou reader Writing activities for a Go over sound for/a/ Lesson 2 language exercise Day 3: /a/ sound activity sheet Identify /a/ sounds in Ziggy zebra and/ or Lizard Lou books Writing activities for A Review sounds for A phonogram cards Lesson 3 language exercises Days 4-6: repeat above for letter/sound b And so on You can do the activity sheets really along with any alphabet exercise that goes along with it but the Language exercises SHOULD be done in order as they build on one another. We do go over the sounds every day and review previous sounds. We do games with the cards working on decoding and encoding. (I show the card and he gives the sound or I say the sound he chooses the correct phonogram card. Hope that helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 The letters and sounds can be done in any order that you want, but the Language Exploration part of each lesson needs to be done in order. HTH! Merry :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southernm Posted September 1, 2012 Author Share Posted September 1, 2012 Perfect! Thank you both so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hands-on-mama Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 Thank you for posting this! I was thinking of getting this for my daughter for the rhyming and other pre reading skills. She also knows all her letters and sounds though. It just seems like such a great program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyerin Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 I bought the program after my kids knew most of their letter names and basic sounds from Letter Factory. We went straight through the UC letter section as written, but I've been doing the LC and letter sound sections together. I wanted to accelerate our pace since some of mine are ready for explicit phonics and reading, so now we do the Lizard Lou section, the Ziggy games for both the uppercase and sound, and the sound worksheet in a day. We make the coloring sheet from the LC section optional. My daughter always does it. My boys, rarely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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