![]() It’s got subsections where children begin to practice their new-found reading skills : All About Me, Art Gallery, Magic, Music, Poetry, Tongue Twisters, and Bird Riddles. Madeline and I have only begun to explore this section. There are also some fun movies in this section. Madeline loves to read the page and then look for the spot so she can click and watch the picture do something fun. So after the child does activities with “an” and “at,” they read “Zac the Rat.” Then they move on to blending “en” and “et” and read “Peg the Hen.” Unlike paper books, these books have special spots you can click to animate the picture. This section starts to blend letters and has a book for each level. The end of the “a” book has an activity where the child sorts capital and lowercase “a’s” into the correct baskets. (Which terrifically entertains my two kids.) When the child is ready to turn the page, the short “a” sound is repeated. Sometimes the picture then dances, sings, or giggles. When the child clicks on the sparkly letter “a” in each picture, they hear the short “a” sound and the name of the object in the picture is pronounced. For example the A “book” as they call it, has pictures of things starting with the letter “a” on each page. In this section, each letter has it’s own set of activities. There are four main sections to the site: They learn how to navigate between pages, drag and drop with the mouse, and yes, on occasion, wait patiently for a page to load – all key skills for today’s world. In addition to the tremendous phonics foundation that it lays, it also gets kids acquainted with using the computer. eh, eh” or “The silent ‘e’ at the end of the word makes the vowel long” around the house all day long!) (I can’t tell you how often we’ve gotten these songs stuck in our heads and have ended up singing things like, “Ed the Elephant likes red eggs. It builds concept upon concept by using great graphics, clear pronunciations of each letter and word, fun interactive games, and terrific teaching songs. I have just begun my journey as a home-schooling mom, but after a couple of months of comparing this site to a $150 Kindergarten phonics curriculum, I definitely prefer Starfall. Hope this helps.Anyone with pre-school to first-grade children should check out this FREE educational resource. ![]() So at K1, he has spelling at his CC and it was such a breeze. I also use the ICR book to test him out as I have the books but we do not attend the ICR. ![]() If he doesn't knows the 2 vowels sounds, I will do the action without sounding it for him. In Jolly Phonics books, there are spelling list as well. Initially he does spelling on his own at the end of nursery level. My boy learns Jolly Phonics and Montessori Phonics, all taught by me. I don't think you should explore another new thing again as this might cause confusion to your gal. If this is the case, I suggest that you quickly run through the Jolly Phonics again and use Phonics Readers as a guide for intensive phonics practising. Does she knows the simple phonics rules yet? Does she knows how to differentiate what is first, middle and last sounds? If she is not ready, not surprising even though Kindy is teaching coz most likely they don't cover the whole thing. Most likely your gal's phonics foundation is not there yet.
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