Homeschooling can have its tedious moments. There is the exhilaration of teaching your child to read, quickly followed by the drudgery of improving their reading. You. must. listen. to. endless. reading. aloud.

And it seems like the same child who was ready to take off sounding out words when it was all fun and games suddenly can’t remember any letter combination sounds.

Enter: GrayMatters Phonics. Say your child struggles with the ‘all’ sound. Show them the page that says, “Did y’all see the ball fall off the wall ’cause someone tall kicked it from a stall?”

The child remembers the ‘all’ sound!

Maybe they struggle with a beginning blend: “I’m blase, by my ears are blown out from the bloody bleating blues he chose to blare.”

The rhymes are silly enough to lighten the impatient tension that builds up while waiting for the child to remember all his rules and sound out new words. –maybe that’s just me with impatience, but I doubt it, considering how many people dare not homeschool for fear of blowing up.

I even uncovered the mystery of ‘augh’ and that odd little word involving (root) beer: “He took a deep draught, then laughed and laughed.”
I hope you and your child have as much fun reading Graymatters Phonics as I had writing it.