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 Whether you are learning English as your first or second language, WordSmart Phonics can help you make sense of English sounds (phonemes). The pronunciation guidance is comprehensive, extensive, and easy to use. English-speaking children with speech deficiencies, ESL learners, and other types of English language learners will find WordSmart Phonics to be a thorough system for sound production and pronunciation.
The phonics concepts are separated into chapters and progress through a series of presentations and activities. The presentations often consist of an introduction to a sound or a concept, such as blending. The activities vary according to reading level and the focus of each volume. They are a mixture of choosing pictures, written words, or spoken words. When one volume is completed, go on to the next.
FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS (ELL): Click on References and choose a language. This will produce a menu of important lessons to be reviewed. These lessons concentrate on specific sounds that may be difficult for someone of that language background to produce. See the different languages covered.
ON ALL DISCS: Alphabet Review: a fishing game where letters are inscribed on the swimming fish. The student is directed to click on the correctly lettered fish to catch it. To win, catch five fish. If a wrong selection is made, the fish that have already been caught escape and the game starts over.
Disc 1
Consonant sounds: proper sound production and pronunciation are demonstrated through the use of an animated head profile. Sounds are presented with their corresponding letters so they can see and hear the sounds.
- Pictures of two objects are presented accompanied by a verbal request to “click on the picture” that corresponds to the voiced word.
- Sound out words with consonant sounds in initial and final position
- Two words are accompanied by a verbal request to click on one specific word.
- Sounds are presented with their corresponding letters and then tested within words.
Disc 2
Consonant blends:
- Pictures of two objects or two words are presented accompanied by a verbal request to “click on the picture” that corresponds to the voiced word.
- Blends are presented in groups and words are presented in phonemes.
- Sliders: auditory and visual recognition of blends with ‘s’ & /z/
- Beginning and ending gliders: auditory and visual recognition of blends with ‘l’ & ‘r’
- Recognition of blends with ‘w’, ‘n’, ‘c’, ‘m’, ‘p‘ & ‘f’
Disc 3
Vowel sounds: easy stories that teach all the vowel sounds. Each vowel sound has its own specific color. For each vowel color:
- Pronunciation presentation
- Vowel auditory discrimination
- Presentation of words with various spellings of the vowel sound
- Vocabulary words including sight words (if any) in vowel color
- Story – I-Read-You-Read system: the storyteller reads the printed text aloud, leaving out the underlined word. The student passes the pointer over three question marks, listens to all the words, and clicks on the question mark that says the underlined word. With each correct answer, the unfocused picture above the text becomes clearer.
Disc 4
Long vowels : intermediate stories that teach long vowels and diphthongs
- Story – I-Read-You-Read system: the storyteller reads the printed text aloud, leaving out the underlined word. The student passes the pointer over three question marks, listens to all the words, and clicks on the question mark that says the underlined word. With each correct answer, the unfocused picture above the text becomes clearer.
Disc 5
Short vowels: intermediate stories that teach short vowels and schwa
- Story – I-Read-You-Read system: the storyteller reads the printed text aloud, leaving out the underlined word. The student passes the pointer over three question marks, listens to all the words, and clicks on the question mark that says the underlined word. With each correct answer, the unfocused picture above the text becomes clearer.
The time-tested WordSmart Phonics software program will help your child become a good reader quickly and easily. If you are not absolutely thrilled, return the product for a full refund.
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