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Phonics

Choose one of these phonics programs or use your own! Since I believe phonics instruction is a very personal decision for each family, I specifically designed Little Hearts for His Glory to work with any phonics program that you choose.

Phonics: Pacing Suggestions
Note: A phonics instruction reminder is listed in the plans daily. This schedule is suggested once your child shows an interest in learning to read. Both of the phonics programs listed below are easy-to-use, include short planned lessons with interesting stories, and are economical. Both programs utilize one book that includes a teachers guide and a student book all in one.

Reading Made Easy

Reading Made Easy
by Valerie Bendt: his phonics program includes 108 lessons. The author recommends covering 3 lessons each week with review between lessons. This plan will allow a child to finish this phonics program in a typical school year consisting of 36 weeks. However, the author firmly emphasizes the necessity of pacing the program as needed to help the child be successful.

Reading Made Easy (book only) [Add to Cart] $49.95

Reading Made Easy is now available on CD. All 108 lessons are contained in PDF files which you can print from you home computer as you need them. The CD also includes an audio workshop by Valerie Bendt entitled "Teaching Your Child to Read."

Reading Made Easy CD [Add to Cart] $25.00

The author's website is www.valeriebendt.com

Reading Made Easy Workbook Series on CD

Valerie Bendt has developed a series of four workbooks to supplement the Reading Made Easy curriculum manual.
Each workbook contains review material to accompany 27 lessons in Reading Made Easy. The workbooks include:

word/picture match-ups and other exercises to strengthen phonetic and decoding skills.
sentences, poems, and rebus stories to develop reading comprehension.
copy work passages from Reading Made Easy with space to complete the writing exercises.
space for the drawing and creative writing exercises suggested in Reading Made Easy.

The Reading Made Easy Workbook Series offers parents and teachers the structure to ensure that their students sufficiently review the material in each lesson before moving on to new concepts. It also enables the students to create notebooks which display the material they have learned. These notebooks are wonderful keepsakes and make effective additions to the students’ educational portfolios.
All four workbooks are on a single CD in PDF files which you can print from your home computer or at your local copy center. Each workbook CD comes with a free copy of The Frances Study Guide (paperback).
[Add to Cart] $25.00

The Reading Lesson by Michael Levin and Charan Langton:

This phonics program includes 20 lessons that are approximately 20 pages each. For children under the age of five, the authors recommend covering one page per day. For children between the ages of five and six, the authors recommend covering two to three pages per day. For children over the age of six, the authors recommend covering three or more pages per day. They suggest that no longer than five to seven minutes should be spent on a page and lessons should be under fifteen minutes in length.

A companion CD-ROM that follows the book is also available.

The author's website is www.readinglesson.com

The Reading Lesson (book only) [Add to Cart] $27.95

The Reading Lesson (book and CD) [Add to Cart] $49.95