Product Review: Rock N Learn Phonics Volumes 1 and 2

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About Rock N Learn

Volume 1:

• Catchy rhymes make rules easy to remember
• Covers: short vowels, consonants, special consonants, phonemic segmentation, oral blending, double consonants, ending S, blends, consonant digraphs and trigraphs, and silent e
• Read-along stories and fun songs provide practice with rules and build reading fluency
• Context clues help students develop multiple strategies to read for meaning
• Delayed answers make it easy to check progress
• Grades K & up. Approx. 70 minutes
• YouTube sample: Phonics Volume 1
• Windows Media Video sample: Phonics Volume 1

 Volume 2:

• Catchy rhymes make rules easy to remember
• Long vowels, r-controlled vowels, diphthongs (oi, oy, ou, ow), variant vowels (au, aw all al), syllables, schwa sound, y and le, rule breakers, ph and gh, memory words, silent consonants
• Read-along stories and fun songs provide practice with rules and build reading fluency
• Context clues help students develop multiple strategies to read for meaning
• Delayed answers make it easy to check your progress
• Grades 1 & up. Approx. 78 minutes
• YouTube sample: Phonics Volume 2
• Windows Media Video sample: Phonics Volume 2

My thoughts on the Rock N Learn Phonics DVDs

I used these DVDs with my kindergartner and 1st grader, both of which are emerging readers.  They both enjoyed the upbeat music and have asked to watch them several times.  Even my 15 month old, enjoys bopping around when the songs are on and sits and listens to the stories.  Who knows, maybe he will be my earliest reader, yet.  I particularly appreciate that the DVDs go beyond the basic letter sounds which my early readers are already pretty good at.  Another aspect I appreciate is that they show how the mouth forms the various sounds, which is particularly helpful to my son, who has gone through speech therapy for the past year.  Speech therapy had worked for him, but it ended a few weeks ago.  He started watching the DVDs the day after speech therapy ended and I have seen marked improvement in some areas where he had still been struggling.

An Educents deal for Rock N Learn Phonics

Until tomorrow, at 7PM CST, you can get a Rock N Learn Phonics bundle on Educents for 50% off the regular price.  Included kit #1 is the Rock N Learn Phonics Volume 1 DVD, the Phonics Volume 1 workbook to go with the DVD, and the Phonics Easy Reader DVD.  Kit #2 includes, the Rock N Learn Phonics Volume 2 DVD, Phonics Volume 2 workbook, "Jade and Chip's Amazing Snow Dance story, and Read Along Stories on DVD.  Each bundle is available for the great price of $19.99, plus $4.50 for shipping.  If you order both sets, you only pay the shipping one time.