Abby is coming along well with her reading.  We start by learning our sounds with a fun program called Jolly Phonics.  She learns the sound with a story and an action, traces it on a coloring page, makes her own sound book, and does some tracing (early copywork)  in her composition book.  She's finishing Book 6 now. 

Once the Jolly Phonics sounds are easy, we start sounding out words.  I usually group them by vowel at this point.  These words are from a program I used when Sarah learned to read.  I have other lists from Jolly Phonics that match up with pictures that are fun to use as well. 

While working on sounding out words, we play the fast vowel game a lot!  The vowel sounds are obvious.  The music notes are for a quick singing of the beginning of Twinkle and the stick figure is for fast jumping jacks. 

From there, we start Phonics Pathways at the page with the vowels in a box and enjoy our many early reader books one day at a time. 

This book has become precious to me - so many memories of learning to read with three big girls and now Abby has joined the fun!