funnix reading program for free

[bella]

Dear friends
again funnix are releasing their on screen reading program free starting today till the 15th of feb
the link is :
http://store.funnix.com/home/fnx/fbr2012_form_main.html

i downloaded it last year but my daughter was already reading , i decided to save it for my baby boy , but unfortunately when i wanted to use it i couldn't find it on my computer , probably got lost after reformatting my computer following a virus attack .
this time i am making sure to save the program on a dvd .
if you are familiar with teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons . this is the same but on the computer screen which i think will be more appealing for many of our kids .
hope somebody can use it
viv

[NadiaD]

Viv, Thank you!

Karma to you!

[at]

Hi - Any one has used this reading program (and the math program)?  How does it compare to Little Reader? 

[bella]

my kids were never into whole words , they looked at them but never read them back . i got frustrated felt i am going nowhere with reading . once they knew to letter sounds , i tried dad dude flashcards , they could sound out the words and read them , this is when i found about the book teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons . it is actually the reading program adopted by jone genius , i got it and i did one lesson a day in bed before her nap , i didn't allow us to get frustrated , i would stop when i see she is not enjoying it and pick up next day . the nice thing about the book you don't have to sound out word families , and after only few lessons you can read sentences , it build us , and you are ready paragraphs and this is really motivating for a child and the stories andsentences are really fun , not like the phonic readers i see nat , nat sat on bat , those my daughter hated them .she had very advanced listening skills and comprehension , so unless a boo has meat in it she won't look at it . i bought many early phonic books we never used them . she was enjoying chapter books . 100 easy lessons was different , she was happy to do the lesson and see herself progressing  . she enjoyed looking at the very end and would say : mama is it true by the time i finish all the lessons i will be able to read all this . only this was enough to motivate her to work on her lessons .
it took us few months and by the time we were done she was reading almost everything .
now her brother at three knew his letter sounds sinve he was 18 months , can sound cvc words , but doesn't realize or try to read books , again like his sisters early phonetic books are too simple for his liking .
the difference i tried one lesson from the book and he wasn't very cooperative , he is not ready and i don't want to force him , what i did is pull out whatver in the lesson and teach him while playing without the book . i could continue like that for a while , but it will be a lot easier using funnix , it is computer screen which he loves, it is animated , he loves that also , so i hope it will work this time around for us .
viv

[NadiaD]

Hi, at!

Welcome to the forum!
Funnix  is completely different than LR! If you have children under 18 month old I do not think it will help you much.
 theLR is your best Bet!
I wrote a list of materials that I am using to teach my 29 month old and 9 month old to read here on my blog:

http://learningmorethanever.blogspot.com/
hope this helps!

[NadiaD]

I downloaded it and looked at it , I was not impressed...
I haven't showed it to my DD yet, We are doing different program for phonics: Reading Bear which works for us!

http://www.readingbear.org/

[bella]

sorry \at i answered you leaving out the part about LR . nadia is right for tiny babies little reader is your best bet . even though my kids didn't learn to read from it , but i used it anyway and i believe it help with their language explosion and comprehension at a very early age . Also hard to single one program and give it all the benefit . my kids also saw your baby can read , and we did signing time dvds . my kids were excellent at signing , they had their first words before 12 months , and i am sure all this early exposure helped . but i would say my kids didn't read as infant like other kids did after using ybcr or little reader . only after giving my daughter phonic instructions that her reading took off , i did have sight words dvds but she was never interested in them , once could read phonetically this helped her figure out many of the sight words .
so depends on your baby's age i will continue to do little reader , curriculum and amazing files shared by other parents , even make your own personalized files , your child will love them . i still use little reader with my five years old who is reading already commercial books . but you could safe funnix for future use , funnix 2 have very interesting readers nice stories that my tina loved .

viv

[NadiaD]

Viv,
Thank you very much for the books suggestion in Part 2!
I will check them out!
I also have to say that download was a breeze as well, compared to last year...
I have better internet this time though...

[iwini]

Phonics ideas are great.I never thought for this.
really the link is great.
let me to try with me first then to my Lil.
Honestly speaking ,as a science postgraduate I am a far away from language,English literature.
I am very much interested  to learn and share.

[krisdr]

Thank you! 

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