Lawsonclan5
- Reviewed on Wednesday, May 14, 2008
- Grades Used: K
- Dates used: 2007-2008
This has been a wonderful program for my child (1of 3). She has enjoyed the lessons, and takes great pride in her reading ability. It has been amazing to watch her learn to read! She couldn't read in August and now she is reading restaurant menus and story books to us! What a priviledge it has been to take that journey with her! I do feel that there is more writing in the program than is necessary for a K child, but we have adapted the lessons to suit her. I wasn't sure how I felt about the incorporation of grammar and punctuation into the curriculum, but she has done amazingly well with the materal. Still having difficulty with quotation marks particularly...
I definitely recommend this program; however, it does require seated book work for 15-25 minutes depending on the lesson and the motivation of the student.
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cynthiaj
- Reviewed on Sunday, April 06, 2008
- Grades Used: 1st
- Dates used: 2007-2008
This is a very fast-paced program. It basically has a grammar rule at the top of the page and has several sections below for the student to complete examples of the rule introduced. Imo this program is way too detailed and is a "kill and drill" type of lesson. Most of the rules involve the different ways that words are put together in the english language. Some examples are, if a word ends in ss, sh, ch, or x add es to make it plural. Or if a word ends in f, change the f to v and add es.
This was just too much for me and my daughter, we quit 1/2 way through and are enjoying a more gentle program very much! In short, this is a very detailed, rule oriented program, that was not a good match for us.
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jeannie b
- Reviewed on Sunday, March 02, 2008
- Grades Used: 1st-2nd
- Dates used: 2007
I am a certified language arts teacher and homeschool my first and second grade sons. I will not use Horizons Phonics & Reading materials after this year for several reasons. The second-grade readers are filled with grammatical and spelling errors, making them very poor examples of writing for young learners. I emailed the company to point out several errors on one page and never received a response. The workbook looks great at first glance, with a rule at the top of each lesson that will be used in completing the lesson. The rules, though, are often incorrect. I can't believe that the editor of these materials has had any formal training in English at all beyond high school. I'm a bit frustrated that I have never seen a review mention the errors in spelling, grammar, usage, and teaching, when they are easy to find on almost every page in the readers and workbooks. The teachers guide is absolutely necessary if you are going to use the workbook, but is helpful mainly in correctly identifying the pictures the students are asked to name on the page. I really cannot find any redeeming quality at all with Horizons Phonics & Reading except that it is brightly colored and visually pleasing.
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Grace4all
- Reviewed on Saturday, March 24, 2007
- Grades Used: K-1
- Dates used: 2005-2006
We used Horizon Phonics for my daughter and she loved it! So did I! We actually used the two of the K workbooks in Kindergarten and used the other 2 for first grade. 4 workbooks in one year for a K student seemed a bit much for us.
Through this program she learned to read very quickly! The pages are colorful and have interesting things for them to do. She was not bored with these at all.
This is a great phonics program and I plan on using it with my son in a couple of years.
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