Using phonics

[nikzam]

Since phomics teaching seems to be on the increase, wouldn't it be ideal to have each initial letter of the words showing in a different colour?  If this is possible it would help later on when letter blends are taught too.  look, book,

[romina borg]

Good idea.
Romina

[KL]

Wait till our phonics features come out. It's currently under development, and we are extremely excited about it.

[nikzam]

Can't wait :tongue2:

[romina borg]

Looking forward.
Romina

[nohayo]

LR is FULL of surprises 

[Jake]

my granson is like yours .Iam new on this site too .there is a phonic site if you are interested.

[dutchypom]

Ithink this would be great also, you all keep coming up with such good idea's

[kmum]

That great news.  I thought little reader was just sight reading!

[lawrencelb]

Wait till our phonics features come out. It's currently under development, and we are extremely excited about it.

Glad to hear of this indeed - I must admit that I have been concerned that folks will think that the sight word exposure will be all it takes to teach their children to actually read.  There are so many words in any given language - no one could possibly simply memorize the visual structure of all of them.  Sight words are certainly important (especially in the English language when the orthography is often so far off from how a word phonetically sounds), but they will not get the entire "job" done when it comes to reading.   I am so thrilled that you are pursuing this other avenue/component within the program - fantastic!

For those of you not wanting to wait until the phonics feature is completed  , I had created a few word flash categories a while back if you want to check them out ...there are six of them total (you would have to add the pronunciations - as I didn't know how to do it back then).  Five of them flash words containing short vowels (five words for each short vowel sound) and the last one shows ten words that follow the "silent-e" rule.   My daughter (who just turned five) looked at all of them this morning and was able to sound out (that is, to say each sound of the word "b+e+d" and blend them back together to say the word) all of them on the first try!!  She had learned what sounds the letters make from the "Letter Factory" videos, but you could easily make a category that would flash the grapheme (the letter) while the phoneme (the sound) is said. 

Hope this is helpful info - feel free to PM me if you have any questions about the word flash categories - maybe I can try to add the pronunciations to all of these - and have the initial flash be the letter/sound by itself.

Thanks for reading!

[KL]

Yep, phonics is EXTREMELY important. Maddy talks about the topic in depth in one of the Reading articles over at www.brillbaby.com .  Sight-reading (whole-word reading) is good to get a very young child started on reading, and some children actually figure out the rules of phonics themselves (such as Aleka Titzer - the baby we saw in the YBCR videos), but systematic exposure to the rules of phonics is essential to ensure proper reading abilities (or as you say, getting the entire job done!).

And yes, just to reiterate, LR will have phonics features for sure - we would be very remiss if we were to not have one.  In the meantime, however, we would encourage people to make phonics sets using LR.  Leanna, please drop us links to your phonics Categories you did, and did you know that LR now has a very easy-to-use Voice Recorder program, so it'd be great if you could update your sets to include the pronunciations!

[lawrencelb]

You bet  -  I will check out the voice recorder program (hadn't had time to explore that or even notice it yet to be honest with you !- sorry!!), and I will try to redo my sets.  Then I will "drop links" to them (if I can figure out how to do that!  )

[jemjem]

Hi KL,

Just want to follow up when will this feature, PHONICS, be available in LR

Thanks

[KL]

Hopefully by middle of the year... (fingers crossed)

[meteorix]

ah I'm eagerly waiting for Phonics feature too.

Everything I find on LR and LM is real nice to use and useful for my kids so this new phonics feature should be useful too.

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