Recipe for Reading Beyond the New Alphabet

Recipe for Reading

From a publisher you lot tin can trust - Educator's Publishing Service (publishers of Explode the Code) - here'southward a three-year phonics/reading program based on the Orton-Gillingham methodology that won't break the banking concern. Sound like a win-win? I call back and then. Targeting struggling readers just useable for all students, the instruction materials were developed for tutors. This means an piece of cake transfer to the homeschool world. If you have a child who is struggling with learning to read - or who you suspect might exist dyslexic, this is definitely a programme to consider. If yous just want a good, solid phonics/reading program, this is also i to consider.

Absolutely essential (reading the transmission in its entirety before starting is emphasized), the Teacher'south Manual provides an overview of the programme as well equally lessons for each of the 67 sounds that make up this program. There are 97 lessons which encompass the sounds plus boosted lessons for various syllabication rules, prefixes, and suffixes as well every bit review. Although there are sample scripted lessons, individual lessons are not scripted, but they are advisedly laid out and coordinated with both the workbooks and the readers. Appendices include a Pretest, Syllabication Overview, a list of Prefixes/Roots/Suffixes, Cursive models and a glossary.

The black and white Workbooks provide review and reinforcement activities, usually several pages for each sound. While not glitzy past anybody's definition, they are make clean-cut in their appearance. I found that I occasionally was unsure of the meaning of a particular picture but by looking at nearby pages there was usually an activity that fabricated the meaning clear equally the picture illustrations are oftentimes used several times in a series of workbook pages. For example, one picture showed a student gluing something with excessive glue that created a mess. The first use didn't requite me a lot of clues every bit to the word associated with the picture just the side by side page made it perfectly clear that the operative word was blob. In that location does not appear to be any sort of reply key to the workbooks either in the workbooks themselves or in the TM.

The Alphabet Series Readers provide reading practice geared to the phonogram presentation as well equally questions designed to cover vocabulary, inferential comprehension, and personal response. Series one provide books 1-18 and is used with the kickoff 33 lessons (Workbooks ane-ii) covering consonants, short vowels, consonant digraphs, two-syllable chemical compound words, and ff/ll/ss/zz.. Series 2 (books 19-36) is used with lessons #34 - #78 (Workbooks iii-7) and covers syllabication, consonant blends, ng/nk endings, syllable division, and magic E. The Series 3 books (37 - 39) include lessons #79 - #97 (Workbook seven) and encompass culling spellings and pronunciations, 3-syllable words, 'schwa,' and affixes. The emphasis of this level is spelling rules and it illustrates the relationship between phonics and spelling. Handwriting can be included at all levels, and the workbooks provide reinforcement. Cursive writing models are included in the TM.

Other programme components include the Sound Cards - 67 pocket-sized black and white cards (2.75"x4") that feature the sound on the front side and a sample word on the backside - and the Sequence Charts - a pad of l copies of the sound presentation sequence designed to be used equally a checklist (one per child). This aforementioned Sequence Chart is included inside the front end embrace of the TM. The Braze and Root Cards are 132 cards with color-coded borders: orange for Latin-derived, blue for Greek-derived, and green for Anglo-Saxon. Cards have a prefix, root or suffix on i side and the definition on the other. Lastly, the Lined Writing Paper is specifically designed for use with the program, the pack includes 100 lined sheets - 25 sheets each of paper with these rulings: 1 ½", 1", ¾" and ½".

This program provides the nuts and leaves room for y'all to add creativity. It includes elements that I consider to be important - systematic phonics, lots of reading exercise including words and phrases, an emphasis on learning the meaning of words as well as regular comprehension checks - but encourages flexibility, pacing geared to the child, and incorporation of multi-sensory applications. Its focus is on struggling readers and in fact, it'southward designed to requite the child a feeling of success. Workbooks are sequential rather than grade-level and the readers tin can engage an older child. However, that same sequential presentation means that you lot could encompass the entire program in i twelvemonth with an on-target student as well as tedious it down considerably to match the needs of a struggling student. The TM provides suggestions for scenarios involving both younger and older students. Workbook Chiliad is specifically designed for introducing young learners to the program. ~ Janice