If you need help pronouncing the phonograms these youtube links show you how for free!
Writing Road to Reading (all of the phonograms)
A kindergarten class doing 50 of the phonograms with their teacher. My kids like to say them with the children. The teacher does motions and key words which was nice for me to see. I believe these are Spalding based.
Even if you do know how to pronounce the above videos are worth watching if you’re not familiar with a Spalding type approach (I wasn’t) because they tell you things to note as you teach the phonograms (such as “a” that can be used at the end of the word for /ay/ and “a” that may not be used at the end of the word for /ai/, two letter “e” for /ee/, etc).
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Decodable Phonogram Reading Practice
If you want to use reading practice that covers the particular phonograms I found a couple. The order is slightly different. I tweaked the order of the lessons somewhat for that reason.
Word Mastery on Don Potter’s website would be 100% decodable and works through phonograms as well as things like blends. It is word based rather than stories but 100% decodable. This can actually be a stand alone phonics program. His entire website is full of great things—resources like this (so many), information and education on instruction, etc.
Progressive Phonics has the parent/teacher read the non-decodable words while the child reads the highlighted decodable words. It covers most but not all the phonograms in a progressive fashion. The stories are fun for kids to read.
I See Sam readers available free, for printing, online here. You would follow the instructions on the 3rsplus site for the use of the program. I found this to be a gentle, enjoyable, and effective start to reading for my kids. It is 100% decodable and explicit phonics. You can purchase thesereaders through 3rsplus linked above or I See Sam.
Word Mastery on Don Potter’s website would be 100% decodable and works through phonograms as well as things like blends. It is word based rather than stories but 100% decodable. This can actually be a stand alone phonics program. His entire website is full of great things—resources like this (so many), information and education on instruction, etc.
Progressive Phonics has the parent/teacher read the non-decodable words while the child reads the highlighted decodable words. It covers most but not all the phonograms in a progressive fashion. The stories are fun for kids to read.
I See Sam readers available free, for printing, online here. You would follow the instructions on the 3rsplus site for the use of the program. I found this to be a gentle, enjoyable, and effective start to reading for my kids. It is 100% decodable and explicit phonics. You can purchase thesereaders through 3rsplus linked above or I See Sam.
Free Game Board Templates
This link has lots of free boards so you can make games to review phonograms (or any subject area!). They also have templates to custom make them yourself. Board Game Templates
I printed a few for variety on cardstock and laminated. There are also bingo board templates, game card templates, spinners and related materials as well.
I printed a few for variety on cardstock and laminated. There are also bingo board templates, game card templates, spinners and related materials as well.
Handwriting
The phonics program above will allow the child to practice letter formation. If you want more direction the Handwriting without Tears first K grade teacher’s manual is really cheap second hand and will tell you how to instruct kids in printing uppercase and lowercase letters and all the numbers. It includes multi-sensory hints, grip information and similar stuff as well. You can also get letter formation ideas free from their site if you can’t get the manual. http://www.hwtears.com/parents/parentextras
Copywork can come from anywhere of course to continue practice in writing. McGuffey Primer is free online and might be a good source of copywork material.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14642/14642.txt
Copywork can come from anywhere of course to continue practice in writing. McGuffey Primer is free online and might be a good source of copywork material.
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14642/14642.txt
Inexpensive Spelling Curriculum
LovedtoDeath on the WTM forum mentioned the How To Spell workbooks 1 and 2 to me. This is an inexpensive way to cover spelling in an O-G/rules and phonogram based method if you needed or wanted more than you had in the above lessons.
Workbook 2 includes lessons on syllabication.
Combining this or a similar spelling with the Spelling Town DVD I posted about would be terrific I think. I know the first two workbooks don’t require the teacher’s guide to teach them. I’ve not seen the levels 3 and 4.
Workbook 2 includes lessons on syllabication.
Combining this or a similar spelling with the Spelling Town DVD I posted about would be terrific I think. I know the first two workbooks don’t require the teacher’s guide to teach them. I’ve not seen the levels 3 and 4.
Lesson Pathways
Lesson Pathways is now free and has lots of lessons for science, history, math, etc. for many grade levels.
Lesson Pathways
Lesson Pathways
Free American History Curriculum
Free American History curriculum for starting in 2nd grade.
Guest Hollow History Lessons
Guest Hollow History Lessons
Free Foreign Language Lesson Plans
I found free Spanish and French curriculum for various grade levels. It looks neat (active and creative) and very usable if you know the language! I don’t remember much of mine so it would take work (and be less effective) for me to use this because of pronunciation issues. http://nflrc.iastate.edu/pubs/units/unitsList.html
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