This is the entry page for
my phonics lessons.
For
early lessons for the new or young reader, with several chapters of
instructions for beginning to teach your child to read, click here.
For
a much larger PDF of later lessons, from easy to quite difficult, click here. This
document does have an underlying OCR layer and is searchable, despite being
scanned. The search will not work on the earlier pages (about the first hundred
pages), which are hand-printed. There is, I'm afraid, no table of contents for
this PDF of lessons, and there are no teaching instructions to go with them.
They are simply scans of lessons I made, mostly on an old computer, for my
daughters as they got older and gradually needed work on harder and harder
phonics concepts. One idea for finding the phonics material you need might be
to search for particular words that represent phonics concepts you need to drill.
For example, if you need to drill -tion words, you might try searching for
words like "direction" or "intention," and then browse the
surrounding lessons when you find the word. Parents, feel free to print and use
this material, but as with the young reader material, please do not distribute
it in a way that implies that it is your own. Virtually all the stories were
written by me or at least adapted by me from other material. The slightly
stilted quality some of them have arises from the attempt to use words related
to a particular phonics concept. You should usually be able to tell what that
is, and sometimes there are word lists before or after the story that make it
even clearer. Later lessons introduce Mr. Sound-It Rabbit, who
"teaches" the student. The lessons often address particular children;
you may want to copy or adapt them for your own children, which is not a
problem from my perspective at all. (My thanks to Jason Theume for the scanning
work and to Tim McGrew for help with the top-notch scanner and for the OCR
layer.)