Write to Read and Spell to Read is a no frills,
Amish phonics program presented in three books. This Study Time publication provides
thorough and quick phonics instruction. With endearing farmyard critters and
wholesome reading examples, your young students will be encoding and decoding
words in no time. Utilizing the explicit phonics approach, similar to the Riggs
Institute methodology, students from the very beginning will be learning
graphemes with a Numbered Letter Sound. This Numbered Letter Sound chart is in
the back of the 3 main books of the program (046742, 046622, 046739). Students
and teachers alike will be identifying and learning this ‘secret code’ to
reading, writing, and spelling. Taught in a way where every numbered rule will
stay the same across every vowel sound. This is a self-paced phonics program
and lessons may need to be adjusted per your students’ capabilities and
retention. Each page is a self-contained lesson which helps set pacing options
for this program.
The
Teachers’ Manual provides all the instructional materials for the program.
Color coordinated between green for the Write to Read workbook and yellow for
the Spell to Read workbook. There are teaching tips, word examples, activities
and game options, integration suggestions with other programs, and instructions
on making your own flashcards. There are no tests or quizzes and answers are
provided on the reduced student pages. You will stay 10 pages ahead in the
Write to Read workbook and utilize the Spell to Read workbook as additional
practice. For example, once you get to page 11 in Write to Read you will start
on page 1 in Spell to Read and go from there. Spell to Read should always be
review material, not new material.
The two student workbooks are consumable and
non-reproducible. They are in color, which brings life to all the barnyard
friends. You are utilizing colors and numbers in the instructional format of
the program. Students should know their colors and numbers to use this phonics
course. Because of this, there are 2 optional, or beforehand, workbooks that
can be used to help students learn and recognize their colors and numbers.
Color
Fun
(033558) and
Number Fun (033575). ~Rebecca
