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Sing Your Way Through Phonics CDs and Mini-Charts provide a host of phonemic awareness activities for parents who wish to help their children progress in reading and writing. To help parents decide where to begin, we've developed an assessment checklist that indicates the volume number and song that can serve as a starting point for helping your child become a skilled reader and writer. Read through the following list of skills. When you reach an item where your answer is "no" or "sometimes," we suggest you begin working with that volume and phonics song. Visit our how to use our products and lesson plan pages for additional guidance about teaching the phonics concepts. To get the most out of Sing Your Way Through Phonics CDs, children need a visual link to the printed word. We strongly recommend using our coordinated Mini-Charts or creating your own flashcards to provide the critical visual link to print.
Note: The symbol / / means "the sound of" whatever letter is between the two slashes.
Example: /b/ = the sound we pronounce at the beginning of the words boy and ball.
Key: Y=Yes N=No S=Sometimes
Does my child... |
Examples |
Y |
N |
S |
Vol. |
Song |
| recognize rhyming words in songs and poems? | bear, wear, hair, care goose, loose, moose, juice |
Ready to Read | Rhyme in Time | |||
| recognize words that begin with the same sounds? | Peter Piper picked a peck of prickly pickled peppers. | Ready to Read | Tongue Tangle | |||
| discriminate among same and different beginning sounds? | book, dog, baby girl, grass, tree, goat |
Ready to Read | Words in My Pocket | |||
| segment words between onset and rime? blend onset and rime into words? | c-at cat b-at bat r-ing ring k-ing king |
Ready to Read | Guess What I Am Hiding | |||
| match letters and sounds for word beginnings? | boy, ball=Bb dog, dish=Dd jelly, jam=Jj kitten, kite=Kk |
Ready to Read | Who Knows the Letter? | |||
| recognize and print capital letters? | A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z | Vol. 1 | Alphabet Letters | |||
| recognize and print lower-case letters that look different from capitals? | a b d e f g h l m n q r t | Vol. 1 | Little Partners | |||
| pronounce the right sound when viewing the consonant letters? b c d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v w z |
B or b is pronounced /b/ F or f is pronounced /f/ |
Vol. 1 | What's That Sound? | |||
| spell the beginning consonant letter when hearing words? | boy begins with letter b or B fish begins with letter f or F |
Vol. 1 | What's That Sound? | |||
| know which letters are vowels? | A-a E-e I-i O-o U-u and sometimes Y-y | Vol. 1 | Name That Vowel | |||
| recognize and pronounce the short vowel sounds? | /a/ in cat, /e/ in get, /i/ in big /o/ as hot, /u/ as bug |
Vol. 1 | Oh, Do You Know? | |||
| recognize and pronounce the long vowel sounds? | /a/ in cake, /e/ in deer, /i/ in bike /o/ in boat, /u/ in rule |
Vol. 1 | Oh, Do You Know? | |||
| read and spell short vowel rhyming word families? | cat-rat-sat, get-let-set, big-dig-pig dog-jog-log, bug-dug-rug |
Vol. 1 | Spelling Families | |||
| pronounce the consonant digraph sound when viewing the letters? sh th ch kn gn ph, ck, wr (infrequently, mb, mn, lf) |
Th or th is pronounced /th/ in think Ch or ch is pronounced /ch/ in chop mb is pronounced /m/ in lamb lf is pronounced /f/ in calf |
Vol. 1 | Two Little Letters | |||
| spell the consonant digraph letters when thinking of a word? | /th/ is spelled t-h in they, both, mother /ch/ is spelled c-h in chick, reach, teacher |
Vol. 1 | Two Little Letters | |||
| pronounce the beginning consonant blend when viewing the letters? cl, cr, dr, fr, fl, gl, gr, pl, pr, sc, scr, sk, sl, st, str, sp, spl, spr, st, str, squ, sw, tr, tw |
Cl or cl is pronounced /cl/ in class Tw or tw is pronounced /tw/ in twin Str or str is pronounced /str/ in strap |
Vol. 1 | Two Little Letters | |||
| pronounce the ending consonant blend when viewing the letters? ct, ft, lf, lk, lt, lm, nd, ng, nt, pt, rd, rf, rn, rm, rt, sk, sp, st, rst, nst, wn |
ct is pronounced /ct/ in act nt is pronounced /nt/ in ant rst is pronounced /rst/ in first |
Vol. 1 | Two Little Letters | |||
| spell the consonant blend letters when thinking of a word? | clip begins with letters c-l spot begins with letters s-p ring ends with letters n-g |
Vol. 1 | Two Little Letters | |||
| read one-syllable words with two adjacent vowels (regular spellings) ai, ea, ee, ie, oa, ue |
rain, beat, feet, pie, coat, clue | Vol. 1 | Talking and Walking | |||
| read one-syllable words with a vowel and a final e | bake, Pete, ride, note, huge | Vol. 1 | Silent E | |||
| read one-syllable words with irregular spellings | bread, thread, spread fold, hold, gold, find, mind caught, taught |
Vol. 1 | Outlaws | |||
| think of several ways to spell each long vowel sound | long a: bake, pain, say long e: beat, feet, many, me long i: ice, tie, by, high long o: boat, no, home, slow long u: use, new, zoo, blue |
Vol. 2 | Spelling Choices | |||
| read and spell words containing the letters c-e, c-i, and c-y | cent, peace, spice, fence cider, Cindy, circle fancy, Nancy |
Vol. 2 | Soft C | |||
| read and spell words with r-controlled vowels | car, bar, far her, sir, fur, dollar, actor for, door, court, oar bear, care, where, wear, chair |
Vol. 2 | Bossy R | |||
| read and spell words with the sounds: /u/ as in put and look /oo/ as in cool and new /aw/ as in law, auto, and all |
book, good, push boot, grew lawn, autumn, ball |
Vol. 2 | Cool Vowels | |||
| read and spell words with vowel diphthongs: o-i, o-y, o-w, o-u |
boil, boy how, shout |
Vol. 2 | The Right Diphthong | |||
| recognize the number of syllables in words | dog, chicken, butterfly, alligator, hippopotamus | Vol. 2 | Syllables | |||
| read and spell words in which the final consonant is doubled before adding suffixes | batting, runner bigger, biggest |
Vol. 2 | Better Double That Letter | |||
| read and spell words which follow the i-e and e-i rule | believe, friend neighbor, eight ceiling, receive |
Vol. 2 | I Before E | |||
| form many types of contractions | didn't, isn't, aren't don't, won't we'd, she'll, I'm |
Vol. 2 | Contraction Action | |||
| form plurals and third person verbs from root words ending in s, f, x, sh, ch, and z | buses, leaves, foxes, bushes, lunches, buzzes | Vol. 2 | More Than One | |||
| read and spell common w-h words | which, what, who, whose, whom, why, where, when | Vol. 3 | Who Knows? | |||
| form singular and plural possessives using apostrophe-s or s-apostrophe | boy's jackets, boys' jackets children's book, firemen's truc |
Vol. 3 | Belongings | |||
| read and spell words with letters c-h that sound like /k/ | Christmas, school, chorus archeology, bronchitis |
Vol. 3 | There Is No K in Christmas | |||
| read and spell words in which the letter s has alternate pronunciations | sugar, rose, measure, Russia | Vol. 3 | When S is Sweet as Sugar | |||
| read and spell words in which the letter y is replaced with the letter i before adding suffixes | baby/babies funny/funnier/funniest |
Vol. 3 | Why Does Y? | |||
| read, spell, and understand meanings of common prefixes and suffixes | bi=two (bicycle) pre=done in advance (preview) ful=full of this (wonderful) |
Vol. 3 | Hats and Bootsw11 | |||
| read, spell, and understand the meanings of common homonyms | their, there, they're through, threw |
Vol. 3 | Same But Different | |||
| read and spell words in which the final e is dropped before adding i-n-g | face, facing move, moving |
Vol. 3 | Drop It! | |||
| spell one-vowel words in which final consonants are doubled or accompanied by a partner letter | block, stuff, pill, class | Vol. 3 | Lonely Consonants | |||
| read and spell words with alternate spellings for the suffix /shun/ | fraction, extension, magician, mission, mansion | Vol. 3 | Extension Tension |
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