GoFigure Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 What phonics/reading curricula have very clear objectives or skills laid out before every lesson? Right now I'm looking at LOE because it is research-based and the online samples seem to have very clear objectives. This is important to me; I want to know what the goals of the lesson are so that I can tweak the lesson or supplement with practice and still meet the systematic learning objectives. I looked at AAR but the lack of clear objectives was frustrating. e.g. Why are we counting words? What's the point? Is it just so that she knows that sentences are made up of words or what? Any other curricula that spell out "the reasons why" for every lesson? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. It's really simple on the objective: learn this sound. Apply this sound. Practice these sounds and words. Read for practice. Read for information. Answer questions. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoFigure Posted August 11, 2016 Author Share Posted August 11, 2016 Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. It's really simple on the objective: learn this sound. Apply this sound. Practice these sounds and words. Read for practice. Read for information. Answer questions. I actually have that book. I'll have to look at it again. I put it away very quickly because I didn't like the scripted approach. I would like to think a script could make a good tool, but the introduction seemed to say, "the script is necessary because reading is very complicated and teachers will screw it up left to their own devices." My children will not be engaged with me while I read a script verbatim. So the hunt is on for a program that trusts the teacher with the purpose of the lessons and not so much, "trust the process. this is gonna work." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slache Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 LOE and AAS are both Spalding spinoffs. I use Reading Lessons Through Literature which is the same method, easier to teach, meets your criteria and is less expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanalouwho Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 Another vote for RLTL. We're loving it so far. Sent from my HTCD200LVW using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeAgain Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 I actually have that book. I'll have to look at it again. I put it away very quickly because I didn't like the scripted approach. I would like to think a script could make a good tool, but the introduction seemed to say, "the script is necessary because reading is very complicated and teachers will screw it up left to their own devices." My children will not be engaged with me while I read a script verbatim. So the hunt is on for a program that trusts the teacher with the purpose of the lessons and not so much, "trust the process. this is gonna work." I didn't read the script. We did it our own way: -tracing tactile letters while saying the sound -sliding tactile letters on a tray to blend -building words with red/blue letters I looked at the objectives, copied the stories, and sat down with our own method, just using the book as a guide. It worked, at least for us. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelli Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 LOE, as you've already noted, is really amazing at what you are describing. When you have a review lesson it even tells you which activities from previous lessons to keep working on if your child struggles in a specific area. Really well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat w Posted August 11, 2016 Share Posted August 11, 2016 We like AAR and AAS . I also use rtlt , and phonics pathways. Phonics pathways maybe sounds like what you're looking for. It's not scripted, it's O-G, and has a really cute funny encouraging guy who every page gives cutsie lil encouraging sayings :) I've used phonics pathways with all 5 of my kids. I and they love it :) It's not that expensive and the O-G method is proven timeless method. Actually, all I recommended ate O-G. We like the rtlt alot too . it has the elson readers in it which again, a proven timeless set of phonics readers. She does word analysis in it too. Phonics pathways has lots of word family practice . I dont think you can beat it :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusyMom5 Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 LOE is really easy to tweak, and it does lay out exactly what you need to be focusing on in each lesson. It's rare that I do it exactly as written, so I like this :) It also has little boxes on speech pronunciation which I find very helpful! Since I've already used it, and know what is coming, we are already playing some of the games before they are introduced. I like that it has a lot of movement, games and interaction verses reading pages of words (AAR- we tried that, too. UGH!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MerryAtHope Posted August 12, 2016 Share Posted August 12, 2016 I looked at AAR but the lack of clear objectives was frustrating. e.g. Why are we counting words? What's the point? Is it just so that she knows that sentences are made up of words or what? Which lesson? For example, in Pre-reading lesson 4, it does state the reason for counting words in a picture book you are reading to your child--so that the child understands that each grouping of letters is a word. See the bottom of page 24. Or, in lesson 13, where the student counts oral words, the note on the side in the gray box (page 44) explains that you want your child to understand that sentences can be broken up (segmented) into individual words. "This is the most basic segmenting activity, and future segmenting activities will build on it..." (and the explanation goes on). The "why" and other teaching tips are usually in a gray box so as not to interrupt the flow of the lesson--that way you don't accidentally end up reading that part to your child as you are going through the scripting. HTH! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExcitedMama Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I can't say enough about how great AAR is. I think there are very clear objectives. Each lesson is modeled after teaching one phonogram and then the next lesson is reading a story with that phonogram. Have you looked at the samples? The table of contents lists the phonogram being taught for each lesson. It's super easy to teach and easy to speed up or slow down depending on how quickly the student is understanding it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted August 13, 2016 Share Posted August 13, 2016 I'm a Phonics Pathways fan. It does not explicitly state objectives, but at the top of a page, you might see in large print "- ing" You'll then have a whole page of -ing words to work on. It's obvious what the goal is. There are no lessons, you move through at your own pace, which is a huge advantage, assuming you feel comfortable gauging your child's level of engagement/fatigue with the lesson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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