Getting Started: How to Use

Learn to read free!: Directions on how to get started on our free 120 day reading program.

The Sight and Sound Reading program is an online reading program that was created in the hope of helping all children learn to read with confidence. As such, we have tried to create a website that teaches children to read for free, and that helps struggling readers find the tools they need to experience reading success. Additionally, we do have resources available that go along with the program that you can inexpensively purchased in the store. These resources can be used by individuals at home or in a classroom setting.

Several ways to proceed:

We offer a few different ways you can get started. We have a recommended way, but –the choice is yours. All students are different so the method you choose may depend on your student. We offer..

Learn to Read for free Sight Word Reading Program
Phonics Reading Program
Word Families
Learning the Alphabet

I will explain each of these programs next.

Learn to Read for free Sight Word Reading Program

In this program Mrs. Karle teaches the 250 basic sight words in the context of stories to help the children learn to read. She starts by teaching the children to read the words “Good Morning” and each day she adds words until the children are reading fluently.

This program is fantastic for a beginning reader, a struggling reader, a special needs student –really –anyone wanting to learn to read. Children who are struggling to learn to read many times do not have confidence when then are reading. If you don’t have confidence with something, you don’t like doing it. It is very important that your child have confidence reading. The sight word program gives children confidence with reading. After the children have confidence reading, then Mrs. Karle introduces phonics and helps the students learn how to sound out words. If you start with the learn to read for free sight word reading program, we recommend you start helping your student with phonics around day 20 of the program.

Phonics Reading Program

With this program Mrs. Karle goes through the long and short vowels and sounds out words and sentences to help the children learn to sound out words and write sentences. This program is great for helping teach reading, spelling, phonics, writing, punctuation. This program is great for a struggling reader. If you can tell your child struggles with phonics (sounding out of words), we recommend doing the following. First we recommend that you test your child reading the sight words. If your child can read the sight words fluently, without “thinking”, and only is struggling with sounding out words, then this is a good place to start and do. If your child started Mrs. Karle’s sight word program, we recommend starting the phonics program around Day 20. At this point your child will be reading well and confidently and it is a good point to add the challenge of phonics.

Word Family/Word Ladders
With this program, Mrs. Karle uses word ladders to help students learn more about phonics, rhyming, word patterns and word families. This program helps build a child’s vocabulary. Mrs. Karle starts with a basic word, for example “all”, and then she builds upon that word going up a ladder: all becomes ball, fall, mall, tall, hall, wall. Mrs. Karle goes through each of these words and defines each word. She reads up and down the ladder and she quizzes the students on the meaning of each word. This program is great for increasing student vocabulary and fluency. As such, this is great to help build a child’s vocabulary and fluency. Once your child can read sight words and sound out words, working with the word ladders will help your child learn more words very easily and read much better.

Learning the Alphabet

Mrs. Karle has a Teacher’s Manual to help you learn to how to teach the alphabet. This teacher’s manual is perfect for a preschool or kindergarten student to help reinforce the difference between upper and lower case letters. Her alphabet visually places the upper case letters above the lower case letters to help the students visualize the difference. Additionally her alphabet visually shows the differences between consonants and vowels by making the vowels a different color. Her alphabet also explicitly teaches the different confusing fonts that beginning readers often confuse. It also explicitly teaches the different sounds that different letters make (for instance the letter G can make a sound like giraffe or a g as in goat). If your child does not know the alphabet, the difference between upper and lower case letters, or the difference between vowels and consonants, this is great to do alongside the learn to read for free sight word reading program.

Steps to get started:

Is your child a beginning reader or a struggling reader?

———-> If you have a beginning reader, test your child’s reading readiness. This will give you a baseline of what your child knows and does not know. Then, begin the Learn to Read for free sight word reading program.

———-> If you have a struggling reader, use our free sight word test to see where to start in the ‘learn to read for free’ program. On the sight word test there are numbers underneath each sight word. Those numbers indicate the day of the program where each sight word is introduced. Begin the sight word program where your child is confident reading. If your child begins to struggle at day 11, begin at day 10. We want your child to be able to read confidently.

Watch the phonics videos and word ladders to help learn phonics, writing, spelling, and vocabulary.
Watch the word ladder videos to help increase your child’s vocabulary and fluency.

Ready to read?…Get Started!

Day Videos	Sight Words	Skills	Extra Practice Videos	Other Lessons you can do today using our program:
Day 1	Good, Morning	Capital, lower case		Introduce Mrs. Karle’s alphabet visually showing the upper and lower case letters
Day 2	good, morning	comma	Day 2 (Practice and Games)
Day 3	See a red	period	Day 3 (Practice and Games)
Day 4	I		Day 4 (Practice and Games)	Mrs. Karle’s alphabet: The letter I – notice the different confusing fonts for the capital letter I.
Day 5	yellow
Day 5 (extra)			Day 5 (Practice and Games)
Day 6	one	sound “b”	Day 6 (Practice and Games)	Show the confusing letter b picture: bat/ball
Day 7	blue		Day 7 (Practice and Games)
Day 7 (extra)
Day 8	the
Day 9	green	question mark, sound “g”		Mrs. Karle’s alphabet: The letter g – notice the different confusing fonts for the lower case letter g.
Day 10	go	“s” as ending	Day 10 (Practice and Games)	I see Sight Word Book
Day 11	bear	exclamation point	I See (Sight Word Book)
Day 12	two
Day 13	orange
Day 13 (extra)
Day 14	brown, rabbit	“s” as plural
Day 15	is, not
Day 16	up, down	opposites
Day 17	and	vowel, short “a”
Day 18	black, cat	quotation marks
Day 19	it, bird			Begin the phonics program.
Day 20	big, little			Big Train Sight Word Book
Day 21	run	sound “r”
Day 22	said
Day 23	can, white		Day 23 (Practice and Games)
Day 24	boy, dog	sound “d”
Day 25	play, three			Play! Play! Play! Sight Word Book
Day 26	come, here
Day 27	we, ball, all	“all” rhyming word		Start word ladders/Word Families to help improve vocabulary and fluency (all word family)
Day 28	me, four	“f” sound
Day 29	for	“four” and “for”
Day 30	girl, mother			One Red Hat Sight Word Book
Day 31	you, help	sound “y” as a consonant
Day 32	out, in	opposites
Day 33	yes
Day 34	ride, car
Day 35	no, store	sound “n”
Day 36	get, box			All Play Ball Sight Word Book
Day 37	away, to	sount “t”
Day 38	make, cake	long vowel “a”, Vowel Rule “magic e”		ake word family
Day 39	he, to	to, two, too
Day 40	man, after	sound “m”, “an”, rhyming
Day 41	five, letters	vowel long “i”, magic “e”
Day 42	do, what
Day 43	him, jump
Day 44	into, cannot	compound words
Day 45	Father, fish, boat			The Traffic Light Sight Word Book
Day 46	look, she	sound “l”
Day 47	like
Day 48	am, water, going	“ing” ending
Day 49	call	sound c/k
Day 50	with, my, puppy			Monkey See, Monkey Do Sight Word Book
Day 51	want, grass	sound “w”
Day 52	without, will, find
Day 53	horse, have, her	sound “h”
Day 54	are, pony, if
Day 55	your, on
Day 56	pick, so, funny, six	vowel short “i”, sound “x”
Day 57	this, how, put, coat
Day 58	now, ask, much	“ow”
Day 59	wow, there
Day 60	that, old, house			A Happy Tree Sight Word Book
Day 61	tell, us, paper	sound “p”
Day 62	they, work, men
Day 63	think, children, live
Day 64	some, hill, first
Day 65	eat, be, at
Day 66	did, show, know	“ow” as “o”, and “kn”
Day 67	was, but, who
Day 68	by, them, why	vowel “y” as “i”
Day 69	saw, must, stop, just, from	sound “j”
Day 70	under, tree, our, airplane, of
Day 71	before, cut	vowel short “u”
Day 72	where, when, fly	question words
Day 73	let, take, long, grow
Day 74	use, wood, fire, cold	vowel long “u”
Day 75	walk, about, then, around	“ou”
Day 76	soon, many, made, round
Day 77	today, over, sleep	“ay”
Day 78	his, ten, farm, days, grandmother, grandfather
Day 79	myself, drink, milk, cow	apostrophe
Day 80	pretty, give, farmer, chickens	“er” ending
Day 81	an, basket, barn, hen, egg	vowel short “e”
Day 82	does, small, hold, wagon
Day 83	fast, hurt, corn, rain	vowel rule: two vowels walking
Day 84	came, as, because, sheep, ducks	vowel long “e”, drop magic “e”, ing ending
Day 85	could, got	vowel short “o”
Day 86	both, fall, ran, leg
Day 87	their, better, hand
Day 88	gave, kitten, home, feet, nose	vowel long, “o”
Day 89	say, every, school
Day 90	were, bring, bus
Day 91	went
Day 92	please, sit, right, has
Day 93	back, may, only
Day 94	read, pick, write, or, draw, book
Day 95	don’t, wish, these, bed	contraction, “ed” as ending
Day 96	laugh, never, new
Day 97	well, been, woud, goes, it’s	contraction
Day 98	light, off, keep, again	“ight”
Day 99	ate, done, full
Day 100	always, buy, carry, train, birthday, party
Day 101	very, far, any, money, toys	sound “v”
Day 102	best, thank, Dad, Mom, doll, baby	vowel, “y” as “e”
Day 103	sing, open, wash, clean, hands
Day 104	pull, those, table, floor	sound “z”
Day 105	start, watch, chair
Day 106	shall, warm, hot, together, snow, cap
Day 107	try, own, head
Day 108	once, upon, time, eight, monkey, tail, elephant	sound “ph” as “f”
Day 109	kind, seven
Day 110	found, which, other, shoes
Day 111	let’s, brother, teacher, flower, garden	contraction
Day 112	picture, stick, sun, sister, squirrel, nest, top	“qu”
Day 113	can’t	contraction
Day 114	bread, street, people, friend, door, window
Day 115	didn’t, I’ll, you’ll	contractions
Day 116	thing, eye, apple, ring, Doctor
Day 117	thought, nice, talk, everything
Day 118	bell, it’ll, Grandman, love, where’s, brought	contraction
Day 119	road, night
Day 120

Learn to read free!: Getting Started-How to Use

The Sight and Sound Reading program was created in the hope of helping all children learn to read with confidence. As such, we have tried to create a website that teaches children to read for free, and that helps struggling readers find the tools they need to experience reading success. Additionally, we do have resources available that go along with the program that you can inexpensively purchase in the store. These resources can be used by individuals at home or in a classroom setting.