Saxon Phonics

   Our school uses the Saxon Phonics and Spelling kits.  We have had great success with these programs.  Saxon is a success-oriented program that enables most children to develop a solid foundation in phonics and thus become successful readers and spellers.  The goal of the program is for all first-graders to be able to read not only assigned materials but anything else they might choose to read once they experience the pleasure of success in reading.

Check the bottom of this page for links to games that reinforce our phonics skills.

  Student benefits:

 Succeed in every lesson because concepts are taught incrementally

 Master concepts through daily practice and review

 Acquire reading, spelling, and handwriting skills and understand how they function together

 Develop  phonemic awareness through directed activities

   Saxon Phonics and Spelling students will:

 participate in daily phonemic awareness skill building activities 

 learn a new letter, letter cluster, or spelling concept every day

 participate in daily reviews or previously taught concepts to ensure sufficient exposure to, and  mastery of, each concept

 begin blending sounds to read and unblending sounds to spell after learning two letters

 learn to spell by applying spelling rules rather than by relying on memorization

 learn common suffixes and selected prefixes

 never be asked to read or write sounds that have not been taught

 practice decoding by reading controlled text (decodable readers)

 develop fluency by reading text (fluency readers) written with high-frequency words

 receive explicit handwriting instruction (print)

 be assessed regularly to monitor progress in phonics and spelling

 participate in games and activities that motivate, reinforce, and remediate

 Please be patient.  These games are slow to load.