My daughter is 6 yrs old and in the first grade. Her reading level is really bad she has trouble sounding out words and letters and not real interesting in reading or books and I was just wondering if anybody has use hooked on phonics on there child and has it work?
Phonics might, maybe even Hooked on Phonics
Hooked on Phonics is capitalizing on the market of parents whose kids aren’t getting phonics in school. It doesn’t address the needs of kids who have trouble with the process (see Anitya’s post) — and think of their advertising budget that’s got to be raising its cost.
However, I don’t have personal experience with it (you might want to ask at a homeschooling board for other parents’ views).
Yes, phonics works; Hooked on Phonics not the best program
Yes, your daughter should get help with phonics.
Hooked On Phonics is a profit-making commercial program that doesn’t have a very good reputation among serious teachers. You can do better.
There is a parents’ guide called Reading Reflex that you can buy through Amazon.com. I haven’t used it myself but a lot of people here think it is very good.
There is a tried-and-true program called Orton-Gillingham. You can order it through the IDA website. Some versions are available on CD-ROM for your computer. OG programs have a very good reputation.
I like some workbooks called Check and Double Check Phonics available online through a company called Scholar’s Choice. These are very good as long as you work WITH her and remember to read and do everything OUT LOUD (The whole point is studying sounds, so silent work is a contradiction).
All of these are much cheaper than Hooked On Phonics and have much better track records.
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go buy Reading Reflex and save your child and yourself tons of money and time, and do not wait one second more to start helping your child,
visit www.readamerica.net to learn more about Phono-Graphix which is detailed in the book Reading Reflex,
please don’t buy Hooked on Phonics,
better yet buy two books, get Why Our Children Can’t Read by D. McGuiness, this will open up your eyes,
best book on the market bar none,
dave
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I can hardly wait to start using RR (PG) with my six year old! I’m about half-way through with cutting up my manipulatives at this very moment! Lol!
Janis
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Please get Reading Reflex. It is wonderful. I was also torn about buying Hooked on Phonics and read a lot of negitive reviews and decided against it. I have been using Reading Reflex for my first grade son who sounds like was in the same boat as your child. His confidence is really coming up. The lessons in the book are not hard and some are very fun and entertaing to the child. $16.00 is a lot easier to spend than $350.00. I hope this helps and good luck.
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and kristie, the fact thaty you have already noticed that your child needs help is terrific, she will make great gains since bad habits and discouragement will not plague her, good luck, dave
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THANK YOU FOR EVERYONE WHO RESPONED I’M GLAD I DID THIS IT GIVE ME
ALOT MORE OPTIONS AND RESPONES FROM OTHER PARENTS IN MY SAME SITUATION. I JUST GET VERY STRESS AND WORRY FOR MY CHILD TO READ. SHE VERY BRIGHT AND DOES VERY GOOD IN MATH SHE JUST CAN’T GET READING.AS A BABY SHE WALKED AND TALKED REALLY EARLY AND I’M JUST CONFUSED WHY THE READING IS NOT COMING AGAIN THANK-YOU YOU REALLY HELP ME KRISTIE
Do not get Hooked on Phonics. Firstly, does your daughter know the actual letter sounds? If she does, but she cannot apply them to sounding out words, then she needs to be explicitely TAUGHT how to do this. Many children learn the sounds and bingo they are sounding out words right and left. A significant, but smaller group learn the sounds and pass a test of naming letter sounds, but the whole process of actually sounding out a word escapes them. A precursor to this is something called “phonemic awareness.” Phonemic awareness involves having an ear for sounds, particularly in words. For manipulating them and playing with them. A clue to whether or not she has this difficulty might be assessing her ability to rhyme. If she does not “get” rhyming at all, then this is a very strong indicator that she needs phonemic awareness training and this training should be linked to sounds in words.
At this point I cannot state that she has a learning disability. The ability to handle sounds in words is like any other human endeavor, some do so with great ease, others will relative ease, still others with some instruction and so on down to those who just cannot get it at all unless they have hours and hours of very specific instruction and guided practice. The latter would most likely be the LD population. Good teaching in general ed. takes care of all but the few who end up being considered LD.