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Phonographix - Reading Reflex

by jenny/2/oh

May 6, 2009

Is anyone trained in this? Did you attend a training or do the online training? Have you seen great results? Is it worth the money?

Thanks, Jenny

P.S. I am cross-posting this on a few boards where I think it might be relevant. Thanks!!

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jenny/2/oh Too funny! I learned about Phonographix from Michelle AZ as well!!! I've had the book forever, but am just now getting serious with it!!

May 7, 2009

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Jenn I have the book and did use some of the lessons. However, I strongly suggest you take a look at another program that was based on Phonographix and incorporates the same philosophy, but is much more structured (lessons that you don't have to make, everything there for you between the student books and the teacher manuals.) It is called ABeCeDarian -...See More

May 7, 2009

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Cathy Jenn - can you (or someone else) speak to the differences between ABCD and Spire? Thanks. Cathy

On 5/07/09, Jenn wrote: > I have the book and did use some of the lessons. However, I > strongly suggest you take a look at another program that was based > on Phonographix and incorporates the same philosophy, but is much > more str...See More

May 9, 2009

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Jenn I'm sorry; I've not familiar with Spire. However, from the ABCD web site tehre is a link to join the Yahoo group - there are at least 2 people there I can think of who may have the answer - Michael Bend, the author of ABCD, and another woman who is also a special ed. teacher as well as a private tutor.

Jenn

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May 9, 2009

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Rod Everson On 5/06/09, Jody wrote: > I've > used a bit of Rod Everson's decodable stories ....to supplement. > > :)Jody

Hi Jody, and Jenny,

I was trained in Phono-Graphix and tried it as designed with several students in a private reading practice. About the same time I started investigating The Spalding Method described in the ...See MoreOn 5/06/09, Jody wrote: > I've > used a bit of Rod Everson's decodable stories ....to supplement. > > :)Jody

Hi Jody, and Jenny,

I was trained in Phono-Graphix and tried it as designed with several students in a private reading practice. About the same time I started investigating The Spalding Method described in the book "The Writing Road to Reading" and found a lot of overlap between the two methods. Spalding seemed to address some weaknesses in Phono-Graphix and left less to chance, but it was too long and too sequential to use in the short time I had to work with my clients.

Eventually, I borrowed from both methods and combined them, and wrote a workbook that organized the result. That workbook has the decodable stories mentioned above. There are easy large print stories to be used immediately after a major vowel sound is covered and then longer more difficult stories to be used after the secondary lessons on that vowel sound have been completed. The stories were written so that a child following the curriculum should run into very few words that contain code not already covered.

I still feel that the basic code approach in Reading Reflex (Phono-Graphix) is superb and still use it exactly as I was trained when I run into a child who isn't blending simple words yet and doesn't know the sounds represented by the individual letters. But as soon as I get to advanced code work (the /ow/ sound, and digraphs such as "th", "sh" and "ch", I switch to my workbook for the rest of the phonics training. This takes them through 4-syllable decoding eventually.

To get a feel for the workbook, try going to the link at my website, OnTrack Reading, and download the free instruction manual for the workbook. It essentially describes exactly what I do as I go through the workbook page by page, as well as how to sequence the various phases of the program. When I used Phono-Graphix I used to get final code knowledge scores in the 70-80% range. I now routinely get 90% or better with a knowledge of a lot of the overlap options. For example, the average "graduating" 4th grader can tell me the three sounds he's learned for the letter "a" (/a/cat, /ae/table and /o/father) as well as the three sounds for the letter "i" (/i/hit, /ie/mind and /ee/ski). This didn't happen when I used Phono-Graphix as it was designed. It's a good method, better than most, but the combination of Spalding and Phono-Graphix is working much better for me.

If you use the link below, the instruction manual download is mentioned in the fourth paragraph from the end of the page. It's free.

Rod Everson

May 28, 2009

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