The PHONICS Road to Spelling and Reading

Level Two

By Barbara Beers

A Complete PHONICS Package

Building skills in Spelling, Writing, Reading, Grammar, and Composition

A $305 Value

This year there are 3 sections of study each taking about 20-30 minutes each day.

Designed to follow Volume One

1). Blueprints/Building Codes - A continuation of our spelling list along with Building Codes needed to illustrate various spelling rules; 500+ new words plus lots of Rule Tune practice and new Rule Tunes.

2). Framing/Framing Codes - Using the foundation of spelling words we have learned, this is an introduction to various parts of speech and simple parts of a sentence through dictation, with new Grammar Tunes.

3). Reading/Composition - With the help of the teacher training on DVD, a daily reading schedule, and a prepared notebook, you can guide your student through his first literature study by letting him read aloud to you each day, discussing new words as you encounter them in context.  Then at the end of each week you read aloud to the student and teach various literary elements through dictation.  At the end of the year, your student will be able to identify character, plot, setting, similes, and metaphors, as well as learn and practice alphabetizing, listing with commas and semi-colons, outlining, essay-writing from an outline, paraphrasing, summarizing, and making character comparisons, all wrapped up in a literature notebook of your student's own writing and illustrations.

The PHONICS Road to Spelling and Reading provides an enjoyable and fun presentation of the material, learning to build the English language in the same way a carpenter learns to build a house.

Throughout the study, the parent/teacher is the Foreman, guiding the student through various skill levels. The student is an Apprentice for the first three years, then becomes a Journeyman in the 4th year as he prepares for The LATIN Road to English Grammar.

The Apprentice begins by learning the tools of his trade - single vowels and consonants, vowel teams and consonant teams. After these tools are mastered, the Apprentice uses them to build words according to the Blueprints (spelling list). Along the way the Foreman shows that words are formed according to Building Codes (spelling rules). Rules are set to songs - Rule Tunes - for easy memorization.