Updates for Gilead Success with Phonics
If you have purchased an older copy of Gilead Success with Phonics, please contact me to arrange a swap for the latest version.
| v2.4 | Added easy plus books, you/are, updated links | 27/1/2015 |
| v2.5 | Added Memory/Concentration games to Level 1(v1.4), L2 (v1.5), | 6/2/2015 |
| L4 (v1.3) L6 (v1.5), L9 (v1.5) | ||
| Added buttons to words in you/are L7 (v1.2), L8 (v1.3) | ||
| and Memory er/ir/ur/or/au/aw in L7 | ||
| v2.6 | Updated ball.wav | |
| v2.7 | L8 (v1.4) Added point and shake to doing words | |
| Added Run with Reading book 3 to L5 | ||
| Added letters to spelling tricky words so that it will work with a tablet. L9 | ||
| Programming for Windows tablet for L1-4 Writing Race fixed. | ||
| Writing Race v1.4 to work on Windows tablet. | 17/3/2015 | |
| L6 (v1.6) Took out page “When two vowels go out walking.” | ||
| L3 (v1.5) Added “ff” page before “j”. | 29/3/2015 | |
| Instruction book – Added two references: “Why Jaydon Can’t Read” | ||
| and “Helping People with Dyslexia”. | ||
| L8 (v1.5) replaced wasp with wash; reordered wa, war, wor; added spell | 27/4/2015 | |
| “was”; fanned -> filled, tried -> played; added “We usually add ‘ed’ …” | ||
| v2.8 | L8 (v1.6) Added “sort ed” and Drag and Drop ‘ed’; L6 added “sort ea” | 2/5/2915 |
| and “sort y” to print, L9 added “sort ou” to print; | ||
| L7 (v1.3) Added Drag and Drop ‘ow’ and “sort ow” to print | ||
| L7 Fixed programming for Memory game. | 8/5/2015 | |
| Flip books to print – changed order of pages | 13/5/2015 | |
| – blending before digraphs L6&7 | ||
| Added page where capital letters introduced L1 (v1.5), L2 (v1.6), | 20/3/2015 | |
| L3 (v1.6), L4 (v1.4), L5 (v2.3), L6 (v1.7), L8 (v1.7), L9 (v1.4) | ||
| v2.9 | L9 (v1.5) added “ui” | 26/5/2015 |
| L9 added page “2 sounds of ‘f'” to Tricky Words 1 | 29/5/2015 | |
| L9 added “were” to “no reason for a silent ‘e'”. | 6/6/2105 | |
| v2.10 | L9 (v1.6) Added related words for one, two, who | 15/6/2015 |
| L3 (v1.7) Added “ck” words; added “ack” and “ick” flip books | 19/6/2015 | |
| L2,4,5 Added “ding” sound to all wrong answers in bingo games | 24/6/2015 | |
| L9 (v1.7) Added “ui” to Review | 27/6/2015 | |
| L9 Added page “are” | 30/6/2015 | |
| L9 (v1.8) Added “oe” to Review | 8/7/2015 | |
| v2.11 | L2 (1.7) Music in violin, viola, wonderful wedding to public domain | 16/7/2015 |
| L8 (v1.8) Added “eigh” as separate sound. Soccer exception ce/ci/cy | 24/7/2015 | |
| L9 Added re, ti, ci, si to Review-Some extra hard bits | 25/7/2015 | |
| L6 Added explanation about y and i, /i/ in happy | 25/7/2015 | |
| Added What Rhymes? and Traffic Lights 1 to “Review 1 to 4” | 5/8/2015 | |
| L9 Added “extra hard bits to Review/check – ti, ci, si, ear, our … ough | 13/8/2015 | |
| L1 (v1.6) added bite apple to actions for “a”, info for parents: actions | 14/8/2015 | |
| L2 (v1.8), L3 (v1.8), L4 (v1.5), L5 (2.4), L6 (v1.9), L7 (v1.5), L8 (v1.9) | 17/8/2015 | |
| added info for parents: actions | ||
| L9 (v1.9) added info for parents: actions, added red/blue “eu” and “ue” | ||
| Added Common Words Race game with words for each level. | 9/9/2015 | |
| Each level increased by .1, e.g. L9 now v1.10 | ||
| L9 (v1.11) Added gue, que on ends of words. | 12/9/2015 | |
| v2.12 | Added “easy Plus” books for Phonic Comics 2 | 22/10/2015 |
| v2.13 | L9 (v1.12) Added drag/drop games kn/wr/mb&mn; gu&gh/rh/_t&_s&h_ | 23/11/2015 |
| L5 (v2.6) Tricky word “a” =/A/ not schwa | 25/11/2015 | |
| L9 (v1.13) Added “butterfly” with video to syllables | ||
| Some Phonic Comic 2 printed books removed – superseded by corresponding “easy plus” books | 11/12/2015 | |
| L9 Silent letters largely replaced – wr, rh = /r/; kn = /n/; mb, mn = /m/; gu, gh = /g/: h, s. t in hour, debris, ballet | ||
| L8 dge= /j/ (red) | 6/1/16 | |
| L7 ore = /or/ (red) | 8/1/16 | |
| L9 Added ore/oar/oor/our to Review-Some extra hard bits | 12/1/2016 | |
| L5 Removed write, L6 removed knight – both to L9 | 18/1/2016 | |
| L9 hour/our Photo for “They’re our puppies.” | 22/1/2016 | |
| v2.14 | L8 (v1.12) “pt” = /t/ in receipt, “eigh” = /A/ red | 24/1/2016 |
| L9 Tricky Words 3 – sounds of “o” – of/no/money/do | 29/1/2016 | |
| L5 and L9 Large words black on yellow background (was red) Tricky Words and Easy Plus words | 31/1/2016 | |
| L8 (v1.13) Note “eigh” = /I/ in height – memory aid | 1/2/2016 | |
| L9 (v1.14) “wh” in who = /h/ blue | ||
| L9 Updated -e are…were, -ve = /v/ red, -le = /l// red, -se = /s/ or /z/ | 10/2/2016 | |
| L6 “tch” = /ch/ red, L8 “dge” = /j/ red after single short vowel in short word. | 11/2/2016 | |
| v2.15 | L9 In Tricky Words | 12/2/2016 |
| – whole words in black on yellow background to avoid confusion. | ||
| L9 Added karate, recipe … | 18/2/2016 | |
| Added “Word Lists for SpBk2 plus” (To print – under Spelling Books and Word Lists.) | 21/3/2016 | |
| Edited “Which way to spell a sound”. Added “Extra words for Word Lists for SpBk2”. (Both to print – under Spelling Books and Word Lists.) | 1/4/2016 | |
| L9 and Instruction Book “Partial sight words” – Mostly regular, the unusual part explained – one, said, many, eyes. | 4/4/2016 | |
| v2.16 | Reworked “silent letters” to mostly digraphs – wr, mb … | 14/5/2016 |
| v2.17 | Reworked silent “e” – introduce as single sounds where possible | 15/6/2016 |
| – le, ve, se | ||
| … | ||
| 2nd ed v2.9 | Writing Race – coloured circles build up letters, rather than just a single circle moving. | 17/7/2019 |
| … | … New video clips e.g. L 9 wedding, river, dunny honey … | |
| v2.16 | L1 Added photos from recent eclipse of the moon | 3/6/2021 |
