motherdear Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I'm hoping to get input from someone who's used Christian Liberty Press Adventures and Phonics program. I'd like to know if you've had success with this program and what exactly you need to teach it. (Student & teacher manual?) Also, if you have other suggestions on very inexpensive programs, please let me know. I'm trying to help a single mom who has no money to get started in homeschooling. (She's on disability so funds are scarce) Thanks much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
strange_girl Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 We have had success with Adventures in Phonics. My oldest used it at 4 and 5 years old (two levels) and is an excellent reader. The program is quite thorough. It is not 'fun' or 'interesting', but it is very effective for teaching phonics. Level A begins with letter recognition and moves on to CVC blending and then blends, digraphs, dipthongs, etc. Level B reviews those and moves on to the more advanced phonemes and basic spelling rules, etc. The teacher's manual is nice to have, especially if the parent is not familiar with teaching phonics. It does give basic lesson ideas and tells when to introduce each reader. But it is not absolutely necessary to have. The two things that are necessary are the workbook and the set of four readers. Here they are at CLP's website: http://www.shopchristianliberty.com/christian-liberty-kindergarten-phonics-readers/ Also, Progressive Phonics is free. I will probably use this in conjunction with AIP with my middle child this year: http://www.progressivephonics.com/ Hope this helps! :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Targhee Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Phonics Pathways $20 or so We used it from the library for free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rugrats Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Starfall.com and/or progressive phonics.com (both free) Bob books (can check the library) leapfrog videos (free at library or on netflix) explode the code primer books (teaching letter sounds) are pretty cheap as well as ETC books Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Yes for Starfall! Blend Phonics (free) Word Mastery (free)Remedial Reading Drills (free) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftyerin Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I think Phonics Pathways is a fantastic bang for the buck. $21.50 on Amazon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathie in VA Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Alpha Phonics ... One book and done. Cheap. Can be used for initial spelling also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 McRuffy the Dynamic Phonics Learning Book http://www.christianbook.com/the-dynamic-phonics-learning-book/9781592690091/pd/690092 This is a very nice all-in-one book. You can use it for copy work, make your own reader booklets, etc. it is very basic, but covers kindergarten through Grade 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsmm Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Progressive phonics is free online. You can print the little books for a cost at home or save them to kindle. That's what I did. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Thirding Phonics Pathways. We did use Adventures in Phonics, but used AiP 3 in second grade--excellent review/teaching of syllabication and phonics for my dd. LOVED it. But for the actual teaching of reading, PP supplemented with Bob Books and some simple Montessori fun, along with homemade little books--worked great for us and cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplemom Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Seconding a couple of above recommendations.... We have the Progressive Phonics books on our ipad. Also, the website donpotter.net has links to lots of free links to download free phonics programs. Learn to Read with Blend Phonics along with the stories written to go along with each lesson was successful for my son. If she downloads that program, have her read the teaching notes on how to utilize each lesson and I think there is a video on Don Potter's website that shows how he uses the program in a classroom. He also has a link to Word Mastery phonics program, which I understand is similiar to Alpha Phonics. My other suggestion are to use McGuffey Readers. Or to check out How to teach your child to read in 100 lessons or Alpha Phonics from the library if possible to see if that is something she'd like to try to buy used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curlymom Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Another vote for Progressive Phonics. I am amazed that it is free, it is a great little program! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 http://forums.welltrainedmind.com/topic/208407-k-websters-speller-to-teach-reading-weekly-schedule/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AimeeM Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 You can usually find the older editions of Phonics Pathways for sale, used, for very little money (like $10 or so). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbgrace Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 She can do it well with free for printing resources. I did. She could Use I See Sam http://www.marriottmd.com/sam/index.html free to print here and/or http://www.progressivephonics.com/ (free too). Both are phonics based and 100% decodable (in the case of progressive phonics the student read parts are 100% and for I See Sam the entire thing is 100%). So they are strong phonics based readers, and so much fun to read.I did the first two sets of I See Sam first. We loved those books and got a great start. You just read them with the child. Then I found Progressive Phonics and began using it. For that, I put some salt in a pie plate. I had the child finger write the phonogram associated with the new progressive phonics book (say ea or ee...whatever the book presents) in the pie plate salt as he and I said the sound or sounds. Then we read the new Progressive Phonics book together. There are tons of youtube videos like this one and free websites with phonogram sounds available. I just used one of those to make little flash cards--for my reference as we encountered a new sound and for review of what we had learned. At the start of the lesson we reviewed our old/learned phonogram cards. This was easy, effective, and so much fun. I moved at each child's pace. In this case, free is still excellent quality, and this was a really effective and enjoyable way to teach and learn. edited to add: my kids had learned their initial alphabet letter sounds with the Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD. My library had them, and generally you can find them used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAtoVA Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Core Knowledge Foundation has a complete phonics learning to read curriculum that is FREE and includes a Teacher Guide, a Student Workbook and Readers. Learning to write letters is also part of it. It is available for K-1st grade at : https://www.engageny.org/resource/kindergarten-english-language-arts-skills-strand The Core Knowledge Foundation is the group that publishes all the What Your 1st Grader (2nd Grader, etc.) Should Know books. I second the Leapfrog video suggestions as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherry80 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I liked Phonics Pathways and I just posted it for sale on the classifieds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I found a used copy of Reading Reflex for under $10 and the mom sent me all her material. It was a shockingly nice surprise. I thought it was a great program. My other suggestion is the various versions of Mona McNee that are available online; I've posted them here before but have a dreadful habit of misspelling her name as McGee. Two of them are http://www.phonics4free.org/ and http://www.catphonics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/contents.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Yes for Starfall! Blend Phonics (free) Word Mastery (free) Remedial Reading Drills (free) Alpha Phonics ... One book and done. Cheap. Can be used for initial spelling also. Don Potter has yet another excellent free phonics curriculum, Blumenfeld's Primer, the precursor to Alpha-Phonics. http://www.donpotter.net/pdf/blumnfeld_home_primer.pdf Don Potter has free supplements for the latest version of Alpha-Phonics (not the original italic version) here. http://www.donpotter.net/reading_clinic.html This is the latest version of Alpha-Phonics http://www.exodusbooks.com/details.aspx?id=54721 Alpha-Phonics is easier to use than the original primer, but the primer is enough if it needs to be. The child is more likely to learn to read from the primer than many of the more expensive and hard to teach methods. The links that alisoncooks linked to are all similar and just as good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzanne in ABQ Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I taught all three of my kids how to read using Phonics Pathways. Single book. Start at the beginning, work through to the end. We got little decodable readers, ie. Bob Books, Horizons Readers, for practice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calihil Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Phonics Pathways $20 or so We used it from the library for free. I second this. No need to pay a lot of $$$ for a phonics program. We go through 2-3 pages a day and my daughter is reading great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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