List of phonics programs

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There is a relatively small body of very complete programs that have been widely used in schools and clinics that teach students with reading difficulty. These are listed below. There is an increasing number of programs available for computers and online. The quality of these products varies dramatically.

[edit] Widely-Used Phonics Curricula

The following programs are comprehensive reading curricula with a phonics base.

• Alphabetic Phonics
• Hooked on Phonics
• Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) Program, previously known as Auditory Discrimination in Depth, ADD
• Open Court Reading, a comprehensive reading curriculum, the phonics component of which is very well-known. The publisher, SRA/McGraw-Hill, sells the phonics component as a stand-alone program as well.
• Orton-Gillingham, an approach to reading instruction upon which several phonics programs are based.
• Reading Mastery by SRA/McGraw-Hill, previously known as DISTAR
• Spalding Method
• Riggs Method
• Wilson Reading System
• Project Read Phonology

[edit] Phonics Programs

• Explode the Code
• Great Leaps Reading, which includes components for phonics and reading fluency
• Chall/Popp Phonics
• Primary Phonics
• Ready for Phonics
• Saxon Phonics
• Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
• Sound Discovery / Synthetic Phonics Ltd
• Phonetic Rock Educational Reading system

Although widely used, Reading Recovery is not a phonics program.

[edit] On-Line and Software Programs

• Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself
• Jolly Phonics
• JumpStart Phonics
• Letterland
• Handheld Phonics
• funnix.com
• headsprout.com

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