Reading Made Easy vs. New Phonics Choices

[Jaimejac]

How do the new phonics choices compare to RME? I already have RME and was planning on using it with my son when he starts Little Hearts in the fall. But I'm curious how the new phonics choices compare and if perhaps one of those would be better. He knows most of his letters and sounds, but gets confused with the vowel sounds still and sometimes leaves off the last letters of the alphabet when singing the song. I really liked the look of the Learn to Read Activity Book so I've ordered that from Amazon to do over the summer with him. REAL Phonics with the readers looks really fun too, so I'm not sure if we would want to transition into that or RME.

Thank you!
Jaime

[Carrie]

Jaime,

It sounds like your son could benefit from going through Learn to Read first. It is just a two page spread a day, and a very gentle introduction to hearing sounds in words, reading words, and then, at the very end reading some sentences.

The transition from Learn to Read into Real Phonics is a really smooth one too! I know my little ones would’ve loved it.

Blessings,
Carrie

[Jaimejac]

So you might recommend transitioning him into REAL Phonics over Reading Made Easy? He LOVES the Learn to Read book! He flew through the first few lessons, but he is struggling with the lessons that have blending the sounds into words. He's just not hearing it when I say the sounds separately for him to blend. But he really enjoys the listening games where I say a sound and a syllable and he has to guess the word. We'll just go slow with the blending and work on it over the summer. The first day he tried it, afterwards, he grabbed a book and started trying to sound out words like "yes" and others. So he seemed excited by the idea that he knew what the process is, he just is having trouble hearing the blended sounds I guess.