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Posted: Oct 24 2014 at 4:19pm | IP Logged Quote millermom1110
I have a 7 year old DS who was doing very well with his reading, but we've suddenly hit a wall these last few weeks. It seems to me like he needs to go back and review some rules of reading and phonics. He's also hit this stage where he feels like sounding words out is only for babies, and that it's an insult to his intelligence if he can't guess a word by quickly glancing at the first two letters . It's become a pretty big point of frustration in our day.

He's my oldest (so this IS my first rodeo). So I feel like it would be helpful to me to have some sort of resource to guide me as I review these rules with him. I should mention that we never did an actual phonics program. He started reading pretty early on, so I just let him fly with it. But now there's a few gaps that I think need to be filled in. I'm doing 100 Easy Lessons with my 6 year old son and I'm seeing that some of these gaps could have been avoided if I'd done this program with his older brother! But because it's kind of a unique system, I don't think it would work out well to put DS1 through the same book at this point.

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Posted: Oct 24 2014 at 7:16pm | IP Logged Quote jawgee
Does he like workbooks? My boys don't, but my girls do, and Explode the Code has been great for them. I checked the Table of Contents of each workbook online to determine which level they should be at before I ordered the books.

I've found it to be helpful for their reading and I've noticed that they are more familiar with spelling rules, too.

My 8YO is a good reader, but I think he would have benefitted from a more concrete phonics program when he learned to read.

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Posted: Oct 24 2014 at 9:16pm | IP Logged Quote millermom1110
He does like workbooks. I only have one workbook for him at the moment (RightStart math), so he'd actually be excited for another one. He asks me to buy him word searches so that he can have more "workbooks." I've heard good things about Explode the Code here and other places on the internet. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Posted: Oct 25 2014 at 6:42am | IP Logged Quote Becky Parker
It's not a workbook but I use Sound Beginnings for a very thorough review of phonics rules. It's mom intensive but very effective, imo.

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I have heard of Sound Beginnings and was looking into it. It seems like a really fantastic program. It's a bit out of my budget range at the moment. Though it is something I'll be considering for the 4 younger kiddos.

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