Reading lessons using families of sounds

[RubyWild]

When I learned to read, I remember beginning with families of sounds such as:

sad, bad, mad;
cat, mat, pat;
sing, wing, ring;
all, ball, wall;
see, bee, tree;

Eventually this turned to:

should, would, could
tough, rough, slough

I learned with that method so quickly. Once I'd mastered a sound, I learned another and another and another. It was so much fun. I'd love to find a workbook that used this method, or even just a book that well and truly stuck to this method.

I've not found one that progresses in this way, building only on sounds that have already been learned. Any ideas?

[Queen Gwen]

Phonics Pathways does something like that. I haven't looked at it in a couple of years, though, so I'm not sure how closely it sticks to that idea.

We're currently using Ordinary Parents Guide to Teaching Reading, and so far it's like that. We've done "ad" followed by pad, had, mad, dad, sad, bad, Tad; the next lesson was "am" followed by ham, jam, Pam, Sam. We're only to lesson 30, so I don't know how long it will keep this up. Let me flip through it...I see lesson 94 is the ever-popular chief, shield, priest, field, piece, highlighting the vowel pair "ie"; lesson 99 is the vowel pair "ow" as a long o for low, glow, slow, blow, snow; in lesson 152 we discover the silent letter u after g, giving us guy, guest, guess, guide, plague, league.... I imagine we'll be bored out of our skulls before we finish the book, and ditch it, but it does seem to go meticulously through the phonics possiblities. You can read about OPGTR at ordinaryparents.com There are some sample pages there, but they're just teaching the main sounds of each letter of the alphabet.

Neither of these are workbooks, btw.

ETA: You might check out the teachers' section of the local public library -- ours has several books on word families, little games and bulletin board displays you can do with them. For some reason I'm blank on the "teacher" term for this ("rimes" maybe?).

[RubyWild]

Thanks. My library has Phonic Pathways, so I'll check that out.

[moma justice]

i used that method in my classroom adn have loads of fun word family/word play games....pm if you want to know them.

the book that i used to set up my own method was: the four blocks to reading, they can all learn to read and write

and the woman who wrote it???? i am forgetting her name...

i will think about it some more and come back here...and i'll remember the details of some games too

scholastic have word family based story books, we have the "ock" family book it is about a clock named tock who could not talk, who could google scholastic and word family book and proabbaly get the list.

oh one fun game we would play with begining sounds that were tricky (like tr or th or sh or ch) is have a note card folded in half with c on one side and ch on the other....i would say a word and the kids would have to hold up the side of the card that matched that beging sound (i would say chair and they would hold up ch side, cup and they would hold up c side)

you could write your won word family poems or stories, cat bat mat sat are pretty easy to go with and they could be mroe personal (and less$$$)

i'll keep thinking
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[USAmma]

We are working through The Ordinary Parent's Guide to Teaching Reading. Each lesson focuses on a sound or sounds and presents a list of words that involve those sounds. Then the child reads a short story (more like a pharagraph) using those sounds and sounds from previous lessons. My dd is learning to read at a higher level very quickly with this method and enjoying it very much.