List of phonics programs
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.
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Widely used phonics curricula
The following programs are comprehensive reading curricula with a phonics base.
- Mindplay Virtual Reading Coach
- YesPhonics
- Get Reading Right
- Hooked on Phonics
- Jolly Phonics
- Letterland
- Phonics First
- Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) Program, previously known as Auditory Discrimination in Depth, ADD
- Open Court Reading
- Orton-Gillingham
- Reading Mastery by SRA/McGraw-Hill, previously known as DISTAR
- Read Write Inc.
- Read, Write & Type! by Talking Fingers Inc.
- Smart Way Reading and Spelling
- Spalding Method using the Writing Road to Reading OR Spell to Write & Read
- Wilson Reading System
- PhonicsQ
The following phonics programmes were approved by the Department of Education in England, because they conform to the English government's criteria for assuring high-quality phonic work :
- Floppy's Phonics
- Jolly Phonics
- Phonics Bug
- Phonics International
- Rapid Phonics
- Read Write Inc.
- Sound Discovery
- Sounds Together
- Sounds-Write
- Sound Reading System
On-line and software programs
- Mindplay Virtual Reading Coach
- JumpStart Phonics
- Letterland
- Phonics Hero
- Phonetically Intuitive English
- Starfall (website)