Celebrations – Free Videos to Teach Reading completed!
Now, help a child to read for free! We have come to the end of the free videos to teach reading that give you the key features of the program Gilead Success with Phonics. (Sound of cheering and clapping!!!) This has been a huge task, so I hope that the videos will help many children and their parents in tackling or preventing the distress of reading difficulties.
Here is an overview of the order in which I have taught the sounds of letters.
| Level 1: a, t, c, h, s, b, m, f, r, n, d, o, g |
| Level 2: e, w, v, i, k, ck, ss, p |
| Level 3: x, u, l, ff, j |
| Level 4: ll, z, zz, y, qu, nk |
| Level 5: a_e (e.g. wave), e_e, ee, i_e, I (I am/can…), o_e, u_e, ai, ay, oa |
| Level 6: ea, igh, ch (/ch/), y (/y/, /i/, /I/), er, ir, ur, ar (/ar/), sh, go/he |
| Level 7: or (/or/), wh, oo, ou (/ow/), ow (/ow/, /O/), th, oi, oy, ph, o (/O/ e.g. photo), au, aw |
| Level 8: all, ng, ch (/ch/, /sh/, /k/), ce/ci/cy, ie, ei, a (/ar/ e.g. grass), ge/gi/gy, wa (e.g. was), war (e.g. warm), wor (e.g. work), ew, ed |
| Level 9: ou (/ow/, /oo/, /u/), ue, eu, ui, other sounds of aeiou, “schwa” (e.g. a in asleep), names and capitals, kind/most/fast, tricky words, -le, syllables, silent “e” (no reason), al, ey, tion, hopping/hoping, apostrophes/plurals, silent “e” (…ve, …se), silent letters, air, oe, ous, scripts, air/ear/are (/air/), ear (4 sounds), our (4 sounds), ure (4 sounds), y+s, “i” before “e”, …ce+i… /…c+i…, augh, ough |
http://successwithreading.com/videos-children/
When I started 30 years ago, there was nothing to help my Year 7 students. We made up some board and card games together.
Almost 20 years ago I developed my first computer program so that I could give my Year 11 students something they could take away to improve their spelling. Then I looked at what would have helped them when they were younger.
The computer programs grew to be a family project, with the needs of a growing number of grandchildren, interesting travel and circus photos and video clips, and an artistic daughter-in-law and daughter. Along the way I learned some computer programming.
About three years ago I was challenged to make it all sequential, and about a year ago I started turning it into short free videos.
What developed through addressing the needs of my students and grandchildren, has grown into an extensive logical, sequential, synthetic phonics program that lines up with the latest research in effective reading programs.
Now there are so many phonics programs and resources available. Some are good, some are not. Some are free, some are expensive. You can fit many of the free resources on the internet into my plan – to practise and reinforce the many sounds and skills as they are taught and/or revise them.
Next time I’ll give some important principles that you can use to help you decide which of those resources might be the most helpful.
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