With Charlie struggling with his reading because of his Dyslexia it’s hard always to make sure he is on on the right level for what the school requires him to be on for 5th grade. I would like to share a new Homeschool Resource called FreeReading where Charlie tested so we know what level he is on.
Even though it says, the site is for 8 and under I still, plan on checking it out to use with Charlie because redoing things he may already know helps Charlie retain it better. Plus with David not being able to read at all I have been thinking about checking out the site and seeing if it could help him out as well.
I have a question for you have you used this website and if so what did you like about it or what didn’t you like about it and why?
It’s Wednesday, April 25, 2018, time for Language Arts!
Recommended Website:
Age Range: 5-8 (Grades K-3, with parental supervision)
This website offers a free, multi-media, open-source instructional reading program that helps educators teach early literacy.
It contains a 40-week series of reading lessons covering phonological awareness and phonics activities designed for a typical kindergarten or first-grade core reading program. This program used “intervention program” for kindergarten, first-grade students and above who need additional help with learning to read.
That said, (and the early emphasis on learning to read at young an age by schools aside) the resources here can easily be used for children of all ages when they are developmentally ready to learn to read.
FreeReading provides scope and sequence activities in the following categories:
- Phonological Awareness: Students learn to blend and segment the sounds in spoken words.
- Letter Sounds: Students learn to say the most common sounds for printed letters.
- Sounding Out: Students learn to produce and blend the letter-sound patterns in written words. For the first time, they read.
- Word Recognition: Students learn to read written words without sounding them out. (Some educators refer to these words as “sight words.”)
- Irregular Words: Students learn to read high-frequency irregular words such as the and was by sight.
- Letter Writing: Students learn the correct way to write letters.
- Advanced Phonics: Students learn to read words with features such as inflected endings, silent letters, and multiple syllables.
- Letter Combinations: Students learn to say the most common sounds for letter combinations such as sh and on.
- Comprehension: Students learn to read their first stories.
- And more!
All accomplished with free, downloadable and printable lessons and materials such as picture cards, word cards, flashcards, decodable passages, word list generators, and much more. You’ll find audio and video aids too.
This site provides a wide variety of early literacy tools covering phonological awareness, reading and spelling fluency, and writing comprehension!
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
