Homeschool Phonics Curriculum
Thanks again for your help and encouragement, and most of all for this great program for Adam!
I found your online program while looking specifically for ways to help Adam (who just turned 11), who finds spelling very difficult and reading new words (‘decoding’, I guess) equally tough.
My sister, who lives in the US, has just completed her Masters in Special Education. About a year ago when I was visiting her (I live in Britain) I was asking lots of questions about my concerns with Adam and she was a big help in narrowing down what might be the problem. At that time she had told me about the Orton-Gillingham method. So when I was searching online for programs I could do with Adam (we just started homeschooling both my boys in December, so over the last 6 months I’ve done lots of searching online for all kinds of things!!), your site must have come up in some sort of search I did, and when I saw the ‘Orton-Gillingham’, it reminded me of what my sister had said, and I jumped on it. And then when I saw I could also afford it and it could be done online, I figured this was definitely what I was looking for. I was so excited I called my sister and told her about you, too.
So over the last month or so, Adam has been working his way through the lessons. I was glad that he found all the consonant lessons easy—it gave him a good experience right away while getting used to the new program. Now that I see how much practice he has needed just learning these first two short vowels, I realize how amazing he’s done to read and spell as well as he does—nothing seems intuitive at all to him. But now he is really excited because already he can see the difference. In fact, just tonight he was trying to spell ‘music’. He had written ‘mucic’ and then ‘mucisc’ and knew they weren’t right, but was struggling to figure out where he was going wrong. (I saw from this that the poor guy just tries to memorize the spelling of every single word he has ever seen, since he has hardly any ‘rules’ to guide him). I told him the ‘mu’ was right and to listen for what the next sound in the word was. And right then a light bulb went off! He said, “Oh! It is /z/ so it must be either an ‘s’ or a ‘z’ and I’m pretty sure it isn’t a ‘z’).” Yea!!!
Thanks again for your help and encouragement, and most of all for this great program for Adam!
Kim Wilson / Great Britain
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Our online phonics and reading program is ideal for homeschool instruction. Homeschooling parents can now offer Orton-Gillingham reading, phonics, and spelling instruction to their children from third grade and up for a tiny fraction of the amount it would cost to obtain this instruction through a private school or an individual tutor.
Our online phonics and spelling program is extremely effective with students with dyslexia and other learning disabilities because instruction is systematic, tightly-structured, sequential and comprehensive. Our online license provides parents access to a complete Orton-Gillingham-based phonics and spelling program – no additional purchase of any kind is necessary. Our online license includes the following elements:
- 720 lessons that combine audio, video, and text – all lessons are printable!
- All 141 lessons from our Supplemental Fluency Reader – all lessons are printable!
- Over 400 consumable worksheets
- One hundred plus hours of video content
- 203 mastery quizzes allow students to track their progress
- Our first 10 online phonics lessons are free.
Purchasing our online license is like hiring a full-time reading specialist to work individually with your child in your home at any time throughout the day every day of the week for the entire year.