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So we don't need Rod & Staff Phonics in First Grade?
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 9:30 pm
by hugsathome
Hi Everyone!!
I've noticed that Beyond does not offer the Rod and Staff Reading/Phonics books for 1st grade, but Bigger offers 2nd grade R&S.
Can someone explain this to me? I assume that READING LESSON GUIDE or READING MADE EASY is enough....and that if a child does one of these books, they will easily move into the Rod and Staff 2 the next year...since it is offered in Bigger.
Thanks a ton!!! I'm still trying to make sense of it all.
Re: So we don't need Rod & Staff Phonics in First Grade?
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 12:45 am
by blessedmomof4
hugsathome wrote:Hi Everyone!!
I've noticed that Beyond does not offer the Rod and Staff Reading/Phonics books for 1st grade, but Bigger offers 2nd grade R&S.
Can someone explain this to me? I assume that READING LESSON GUIDE or READING MADE EASY is enough....and that if a child does one of these books, they will easily move into the Rod and Staff 2 the next year...since it is offered in Bigger.
Thanks a ton!!! I'm still trying to make sense of it all.
In the guides before Bigger, in addition to the phonics courses, Carrie has written in gentle language arts activities right into the curriculum guides! What a time-saver, and totally age-appropriate. Starting with Bigger Hearts, she has added Rod and Staff in the daily lesson plans to begin a more "formal" course of grammar study. I think the idea is that the formal grammar should wait until the child has a firm grasp on phonics and is beginning to be a truly independent reader.
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 1:46 pm
by hugsathome
Thanks for your response.
Newbie Alert!!!
Please bare with me.....let me see if I've got this straight. If my daughter is reading simple stories and has been exposed to some phonics and sentence writing in kindergarten (Calvert)....then, for first grade, I would just do READING MADE EASY and that's it....nothing more than that and, of course, whatever is in her Beyond Little Hearts package.
Is that right?
Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 2:28 pm
by Carrie
hugsathome,
You've got it!
The daily poetry copywork, spelling lists in the Appendix in "Beyond...", daily oral narration practice, poetry readings, and storytime literature study, along with gentle once a week grammar lessons (combined with Reading Made Easy) add up to a complete language arts program.
The great thing is it's all scheduled in the guide and you'll just add in the phonics from "Reading Made Easy".
Once you've completed phonics you'll head into the Emerging Reader Set which is all scheduled for you in the Appendix of "Beyond...".
Blessings,
Carrie