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time4tea
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Posted: Feb 18 2006 at 8:49am \| IP Logged

Hello!

If you have used either The Ordinary Paren't Guide to Reading or Saxon Phonics could you share what your experience has been? I am trying to decide on a phonics program for my soon to be 1st Grader. We have done all the letter sounds so far, btw.

Thanks in advance and God bless!

~Tea

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Posted: Feb 21 2006 at 11:49am \| IP Logged

I have used Saxon Phonics, and it is a love hate relationship! Saxon is excellent, but very cumbersome. Phonics took over school because it would take 45min or more if we tried to do the whole lesson.
It teaches all the spelling rules very well. It teaches reading nicely, although slowly. They focus heavily on coding words. They do work on sight words and reading comprehension. They have games that are fun too.
I ditched it this year for my 7yr old because we were only 1/2 way through phonics1 and not reading or writing enough, and we had no time to do anything else cause phonics and math took soooooooo loooooong

I am now using Spelling to Read and Write (same method of Writing the Road to Reading). Our phonics lessons are MUCH shorter, about 15min most days. I have decided to go back to using the leftover Saxon Phonics worksheets because they have excellent reading comprehension paragraphs and questions...
The switch for us has been good but I have found myself refering back to Saxon every once and awhile. My humble opinion is to only buy it if you have other dc that will use it later fully or as a resource... It does hold it's resale value very well. you can resell it on ebay for close to what you pay for it minus the worksheets.
I hope this helps, feel free to ask more questions
God Bless
Alison

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Posted: Feb 22 2006 at 5:22am \| IP Logged

Alcat wrote:

I have used Saxon Phonics, and it is a love relationship! Saxon is excellent, but very cumbersome. Phonics took over school because it would take 45min or more if we tried to do the whole lesson.

I agree. I used the program for a very short time, and then stuck it on a shelf....never to be used again.

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Posted: Feb 22 2006 at 7:17am \| IP Logged

Hey Tea,
Check out the greeting from your post!

I feel the same about phonics sometimes too

alison

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Posted: Feb 22 2006 at 2:04pm \| IP Logged

Alison,

OOPS!

Can I chalk it up to being a "Freudian slip"?

Thanks for the heads up!

God bless!

~Tea

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