Rewards

[DaisyMay]

I had posted some time back about using Rewards Intermediate with my son. We did and it was a big help. He really came a long way with it.

We just finished it and now I'm getting ready to start him on Rewards Plus to continue the progress.

Anyone have any wisdom about using Rewards Plus? I haven't decided yet whether to use Science or Social Studies. I'm hoping it will be as good as the Intermediate was.

Thanks!
Gayle:)

[Laurie4b]

I had posted some time back about using Rewards Intermediate with my son. We did and it was a big help. He really came a long way with it.

We just finished it and now I'm getting ready to start him on Rewards Plus to continue the progress.

Anyone have any wisdom about using Rewards Plus? I haven't decided yet whether to use Science or Social Studies. I'm hoping it will be as good as the Intermediate was.

Thanks!
Gayle:)

REWARDS plus was very helpful to my son in cementing the gains from REWARDS. He chose the science because that's what he was more interested in at that time. It went very well. REWARDS plus focuses much less on decoding and more on comprehension.

[chiguirre]

Sorry, a bit of a highjack.

At what age/reading level did you use Rewards Intermediate. Ds is 9 and reading at a 3rd grade level. Would this work for him in September?

The sample looked fine, but I've heard that you should wait until they have a 4th grade reading level.

Thank you!

[DaisyMay]

My son was reading at about a 5th grade level when we started Rewards Intermediate. He actually only missed two words on the pretest, but I had him go through the whole book anyway. I'm glad I did because he really needed the practice.

There were lots of long words that were quite challenging. You may want to wait a bit. We also did AbeCeDarian level C, which was easier.

Gayle

[Laurie4b]

He should definitely have his CVC words down pat, and I think REWARDS works best if the child has had decent exposure to long vowel sounds and diphtongs prior to using REWARDS. (REWARDS reviews those things, but goes very fast, so if there is no prior exposure, the amount of review done may not be enough) REWARDS focuses on multisyllabic words--is that what your ds needs? He would be decoding words such as uncomplimentary, progressive, etc. (It focuses a lot on prefixes and suffixes).

[chiguirre]

Bingo! He's got his diphthongs and CVCe words down and did fairly well with ETC 4. He just needs more specific instruction on attacking multisyllabic words.

DaisyMay, did you use ABCD C before Rewards Intermediate? Was that a good order or would you do it differently?

Thanks!

[NCW]

I'm not DaisyMay, but we did ABeCeDarian C before Rewards, and it worked well here.

[DaisyMay]

I did AbeCeDarian C before/with Rewards. He could do most of ABCD on his own. He was finishing up ABCD when we started Rewards.

Gayle