Spaulding Method for Toddlers - Teach Reading with Fridge Magnets

[MummyRoo]

I've been looking over the website and it might just be me, but I can only find the first 30 phonograms. I keep going around in circles and getting redirected to buy things. I don't really have the time to read every single page to figure out whether the information is there or not - do I have to actually buy the phonograms file to implement the program?

[bella]

mummy roo , my little one is getting better at remembering words . i am using teach your child to read in 100 easy lessons . i don't follow it very strictly and probably your boy will zoom through the first 20 or so lessons that teach letter sounds , but then come words and story reading with picture comprehension and questions . it tells you to ask your child a question related to every sentence he reads . In the begining my son would sound out every word , tell me what word it is and move on to the next , by the time he ends the sentence he had no clue what he read . We did it as a game every time he finishes a word and move to the next i repeat the previous ones . by the time he finishes the sentence he would ask me himself to reread it for him . Now he starts stopping me and say the words himself , and is able to answer the comprehension questions.
You see during read aloud by me , he has excellent comprehension and can narrate back to you the story but it seems when he was sounding out words he was not focusing on the meaning .
what i like with100 easy lessons every story uses words from previous lessons , so in a way this reinforce sight reading . for few weeks now he has been recognizing many words by sight like little said will . For some reason my kids never liked bob books or any early phonics readers . But the stories in 100 easy lessons are more fun , more interesting . try it , it is highly used on he well trained mind site .
viv

[Wolfwind]

MummyRoo, go to this page: http://www.ontrackreading.com/homeschooling/phonogram-revisions.  Scroll down and there's a blue link in the middle of the text saying "Download a PDF of the Revised Phonograms."  That will give you all 84 phonograms.

[mybabyian]

I love your stories Wolfwind.  That is just the sort of thing that will capture my son's interest.  I am thinking about trying this method in addition to using DadDude's flash cards, which is what we are doing right now.  Karma to you!

[MummyRoo]

Thanks Wolfwind I am hopeless 

[Wolfwind]

mybabyian, my daughter loves the Silly Phonogram Stories too.  Actually, she'll beg me for them: "Please will you tell me a Silly Phonogram Story?"  I love it!

So here are the rest of them.  First, I made some mistakes typing the phonogram list for the Fighting Friends story.  Here's the right one: ue & ew, au & aw, ei & ey, ai & ay, oi & oy, oa & oe, oo & ui & oul, ou & ough

The other stories:

Pirate Phonograms: ar, er, ir, ur, ear, or  AND Flying Phonograms: ere, arr, err

Once upon a time there was a phonogram that wanted to be a pirate, so it always said, "Ar!"  And one day it bought a pirate ship, and it was so happy, it said, "Ar!"

But then it realized that it needed other phonograms to help sail the ship.  So it went looking for more pirate phonograms.

It met the flying phonograms (hold up one of them: ere, err, arr) and said, "Ar!  Do you want to be a pirate and sail a pirate ship?"

"No," said the phonogram.  "I want to fly an airplane, so I say, 'Air!  Air!'  But I don't have an airplane."

"Ar!" said the pirate phonogram.  "I can say Air! too, but I want to be a pirate." And it walked on.

It met another phonogram.  "Ar!  Do you want to be a pirate and sail my pirate ship?"

"Air!  I wanted to fly," said the phonogram [er], "but maybe I'll be a pirate instead."

"Can you say Ar?"

"I can say Er," said the phonogram.

"Hmm.  I can say Er too.  Close enough!" said the pirate phonogram, so they went off together.

They met another phonogram (ir, ur, ear).  "Ar!  Do you want to be a pirate?"

"Yes!"

"Can you say Ar?"

"I can say Er!"

"Close enough!"

They walked on.  Finally they met this phonogram (or).

"Ar!  Do you want to be a pirate?"

"Yes!"

"Can you say Ar?"

"I usually say Or, but I can say Er."

"Hmm, I can say Or once in a while, and sometimes Er.  OK, you can join us!"

Then they had enough to crew the pirate ship and they went sailing away.  And/or the flying phonograms find an airplane and fly away.



Laryngitis Letters: ck, wr, gn, kn, gu

One morning this phonogram woke up (first letter of each combination, except gu - use the second letter) and tried to talk, but nothing came out.  It went out and tried to talk to everyone, but nothing came out.  At last it met this phonogram (the other letter), who helped it.  "Let's join up," it said, "and we'll be a new phonogram and I'll do the talking."  So that's what they did.



Markers: x, dge, tch (I haven't told this one yet, so this is just a sketch)

Once upon a time this phonogram (x) woke up and went for a walk, saying, "ks, ks, ks." It was a special phonogram called a marker, and it was going to meet with all the other markers.

All three make their sounds and met together and dance around singing "I'm a marker!" and making their sounds.


Shushing Phonograms: ti, ci, si, ssi (I haven't told this one yet, so this is just a sketch)

Once a bunch of [insert child's favorite animal] went to the library and were talking much too loudly.  So this phonogram came over and said, "Shh, shh, shh!"  But they were still noisy.  So another phonogram came over and said, "Sh, sh, shh!"  Etc.



The Selfish Phonogram: igh & eigh  (I haven't told this one yet, so this is just a sketch)

Once upon a time there was a very selfish phonogram, igh.  It always thought about itself, and only said, "I!  I!  I!"

Its neighbor was a phonogram that looked similar, eigh, but was not so selfish.  It said, "Ay, ay, ay."

Sometimes the nice phonogram, eigh, would say, "Ay, you should be nicer to people, ay."

But the selfish phonogram always just talked about itself.  "I! I! I!"

So the nice phonogram had lots of friends, but the selfish phonogram was always alone because no one wanted to play with someone so selfish.


Hard to Say: ng

This one doesn't really have a story yet, but I think I'll emphasize that the sound is unusual.

[Wolfwind]

I thought we would get to the point of writing sentences a while ago, but I took a week off and started up again more slowly, so we just got there.  This is when you get to the beginning of Section H on the Extended Ayres List.  I decided that there is no way my daughter will pay attention for a whole sentence yet, so we're not doing that.  But we're still going on with the words, and she's just started sounding out words she sees!  Yay!  I've been waiting and waiting!  She can't quite sound out a word all by herself; she'll read all the phonograms but won't always blend, but if I repeat the phonograms back to her she'll get it.  Anyway, this is vast, vast progress from the girl that would not come anywhere near sounding out words a few months ago.  I'm so excited!  There are 60 or 70 words in Section H, and then she should be able to read simple books.  I thought that was way optimistic, but now I have more faith.  This really does seem to be working!  I am very excited to see if in a month or two she's reading books.  It might take a little longer, but I'm confident that we'll get there before she turns 3 this October.   

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