Phonograms

Spalding Education

About this app

Welcome to The Spalding Method™ Phonograms app!

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This Spalding Phonograms app is designed for helping students learn the phonics connection between speech sounds and written symbols that represent those sounds (phonograms). Learning the phonograms is essential for accurate and automatic reading, writing, and spelling. Teaching all the sounds of the phonemes represented by an alphabet letter or combination of two, three, or four letters (phonograms) enables students to read, spell, and write high-frequency words quickly. Students who learn the phonograms well expand their vocabulary and are able to use effective and creative communication skills in writing. Critical thinking is involved in learning the appropriate phonogram placement within words for accurate spelling and for applying information learned during phonogram reviews to pronounce unfamiliar words.

The Spalding Phonograms app is for students that need additional practice, including home schooling, ESL (English as a Second Language), ELL (English Language Learners), ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) students, and those with dyslexia or other learning disabilities. The school and home connection is encouraged through collaboration and communication with the teacher, parent, and student for practicing the phonograms appropriately and adequately. The Spalding Phonograms app aligns with the core reading foundational skills required by state and national standards that are most crucial to the development of early reading success and reading comprehension, including:

• Phonemic awareness
• Feature recognition
• Letter recognition
• Sound-symbol relationships (decoding)

The Spalding Phonograms app provides the following options for all 87 phonograms.

• Phonogram Introduction by selected group – The student sees the phonograms in order of instruction in "The Writing Road to Reading," listens to the teacher say the sound(s), and then says the sound(s).
• Oral Phonogram Review – A random phonogram card is show, followed by a pause. The student says the sound(s) and then listens to check accuracy.
• Written Phonogram Review –The student hears the phonogram sounds, followed by a pause; the student repeats the sound(s), listens for a cue, if needed, and then writes the phonogram on lined paper. The card is immediately shown so the student can check for accuracy.
• Differentiated Practice – Specific phonograms (from all 87) can be selected that need more practice. These phonograms can then be practiced in Phonogram Introduction, Oral Phonogram Review, or Written Phonogram Review.

Ratings and reviews

Very disappointed that this app stops doing the audio portion aloud after about 15 phonograms. There must be some kind of bug on the android version. I have to back all the way out and restart the app in order for it to play the sounds again. It has been the same problem ever since we started using it 3 weeks ago. Very frustrating. Please fix bug. When it does work, it is good and it is nice to be able to hear the sounds. I regret I paid for this.

This app drives me nuts. I have to use it for my daughter's school 5 days a week and the fact you don't just have all the phonograms listed where I can find them easily click and listen makes me absolutely crazy. I hate having to go through each letter and figure out where you have it at and listen to all the sounds. Please make it easier.

Works great on my android phone, absolutely useless on my sons fire tablet. Gets stuck a few letters into practice and won't make any sounds. Restarting the app doesn't help either. Pretty annoyed I had to purchase it on 2 devices just to get one that works.

What's new

Version 1.0.2

• Added “start popup” for all three instruction options
• Updated pacing for Oral and Written Phonogram Review
• Updated support for 7-inch and 10-inch Tablets
• Updated app instructions

Version 1.0.1

• Added support for 10-inch Tablets
• Updated support for Phones and 7-inch Tablets

Version 1.0.0

• Initial production release
• Support for Portrait and Landscape Orientation