Megawords?

[LNC]

My 7yo didn't take to reading as easily as my older daughter. He is reading the Magic Tree House series in his independent reading (while skipping some words he doesn't know, he tells me). In his daily oral reading (Christian Light 1rst grade reader, Pathway and CLP 2nd grade readers) he needs corrections about 3-5x a page. For lang. arts curriculum this year: readers, CLP Adventures in Phonics workbook C, CLP Spelling 2, and CLE Lang. Arts 2 (minus spelling).

 

Next year I'm considering replacing the CLP Adventures in Phonics (bc it's the last book in that series) with Megawords 1, and continue on with that series. Do you think that would remediate his trouble sounding out longer or irregular words? For example, he was having the reading portion of his end of the year test today. He sounded out "reck- ess" for recess.

[rafiki]

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[LNC]

I didn't see anything in Megawords book 1 he hasn't been exposed to in CLP Adventures in PHonics A-C or Christian Light Lang. Arts. He just hasn't mastered it.

 

I'm looking over it and I'll still keep my CLP spelling and Worldly Wise workbooks, right? Megawords is supplementary?

[AngieW in Texas]

Since his primary issue is sounding out longer words, you should probably look at Phonics for Reading by Curriculum Associates. You can see sample lessons on their website. It's focus is reading rather than spelling and vocabulary. A single copy of the student workbook and the teacher book (you need both) is less than $25, even after shipping. I can dig up the placement test if you're interested. I've posted it before. After Phonics for Reading, the next step is Rewards Reading Intermediate from Sopris-West.

 

link to my review of Phonics for Reading:

http://www.thehomeschoollibrary.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1094

 

My 8th grader is using Megawords, but it's geared more towards spelling and vocabulary than towards reading. It does work on reading too, but that's not its focus.

 

link to my review of Megawords:

http://www.thehomeschoollibrary.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1314

[ElizabethB]

I'd have him work through my online reading lessons and then Webster's Speller. I now have almost all the syllables taught in Webster in my phonics lessons (I've updated up to lesson 20 of 32) so you could make the leap to Webster easily after going through my phonics lessons.

 

My lessons and Webster both focus on multi-syllable words.

 

When you're doing Webster, do a bit of the syllabary every lesson. My daughter did ca, ce, ci, co, cu, cy and sca, sce, sci, sco, scu, scy for quite some time before she finally got it--and, after she got it, she never had trouble with a c as s word (like recess) again, before that they occasionally tripped her up.