Showing posts with label phonograms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label phonograms. Show all posts

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Pronunciation of Phonogram Videos

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).

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.

Phonogram Review Activities and Ideas

This site has ideas for games and activities to review the phonograms. http://pedialearning.com/Teaching_Reading/SWR_for_Ages_4-7.html There are lots of ideas like these out there on the web!

Spelling Rules and Multiple Resources

This is a printable list of the spelling rules. This whole website has wonderful and comprehensive information about this type of approach to teaching reading, writing, and spelling. http://www.riggsinst.org/28rules.aspx