vaquitita Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 (edited) My 9yo has finished AAR and I plan to start AAS with her in the fall. I'm looking for a workbook because I think some daily writing related phonics work will help her spelling. She needs lots of reviews and practice to master things. Since we used AAR, there was no phonics related writing at all so I want to start at a level that's very easy for her but will just give her more practice at listening to sounds and writing them sort of thing. AAS will be her main spelling, but just something independent to help reenforce things. Explode the code was the first thing that came to mind, but I'm planning to use that with her younger brother and I want them in separate programs to cut down on comparisons. Is MCP plaid phonics any good? Or how about climbing to good English 1? CLE LA 1? Eta: maybe what I need is a spelling workbook to re enforce/practice spelling? Instead of a phonics workbook. Because she reads well at this point. Edited June 9, 2017 by vaquitita Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blendergal Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 (edited) I'm not familiar with the programs you mentioned, but I'd suggest you take a look at the Primary Phonics workbooks. They're similar to ETC (and from the same publisher) but include more writing. ETA: Christianbook.com has a pretty good selection of sample pages. Edited June 9, 2017 by blendergal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ms.Ivy Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Adventures in Phonics C is a solid phonics workbook with no busy work that can work well for older kids. (It is not secular, if that matters). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpea3829 Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 I really like ETC for practicing phonics after my students are readers. I understand your wish to cut down on competitiveness, but I had mine all go through the ETC workbooks and they were all at various stages and it never caused any issues. TBH, I didn't even go through the books in order. I pulled pages from every single book (I own the series), and randomly assigned them. It's a bit more complicated than that...as they emerge as readers, they are able to take in material from the higher level books, and I'd shuffle those pages in accordingly. Anyways, I also used the Spectrum Phonics workbooks for practice. Up through Phonics Grade 3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 One of my kids went through BJU phonics review. It's a pretty big book of straightforward wb-work and you can pick and choose from activities, if you like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 MCP is good. Have you seen Core Skills series Phonics? I know Memoria Press carries and uses it. I think Rainbow Resource and CBD.com do as well The BJU wkbk is super nice, too. I would Not do CLE1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElizabethB Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/WellTaughtPhonicsStudent.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 I have found that simply copying Alpha-Phonics and some pages from a vintage syllabary/speller replaces the need for workbooks. Alpha-Phonics http://blumenfeld.campconstitution.net/Tutor.htm North American Spelling Book https://archive.org/details/northamericanspe00leon McGuffey Speller https://books.google.com/books?id=LxUSAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=McGuffey+speller&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3v8--obLUAhWFNT4KHcESAzIQ6AEIKjAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Don Potter version of Webster's Speller http://donpotter.net/pdf/websterspellingbookmethod.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blondeviolin Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 We used Teacher Created Resources which had a good spread of stuff. I liked that there were 180 days per book (one book per grade 1-3). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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