Instead of Hooked On Phonics

We recently tried the box set of Hooked on Phonics Preschool and Kindergarten.  I wasn't impressed and my kids didn’t care for it either but it did help me make up my own curriculum for those grades.  Here's what I have for free or dollar store bargain. vs the almost $60 a box.

Preschool
Hooked on Phonics	My Stuff
Flash cards ABC Flash cards abc Workbook ABC’s Workbook ABC sounds 5 story books for comprehension the letter hunt Pop! Pop! Pop! Follow That Ball Make Room for Zelda The Party DVD 1 abc songs DVD 2 Letter sounds Stickers	Flash cards ABC Flash cards abc Flash cards beginner words ABC coloring book (Printable) Youtube video on abc and phonic sounds Story books for comprehension and fun Go dog go 1 fish 2 fish red fish blue fish Hop on Pop The Foot Book The Best Mistake Ever & many more! Stickers
	Math Flash cards & Legos 123’s colors shapes Youtube counting videos (and netflix)

Flash cards are an easy make with index cards or purchased just as is for $1 each at the Dollar Tree.

Coloring book we printed off using the booklet print option.  We also took pages and put them in page protectors for dry erase to be used again and again.

Stickers - we have a ton from all around but they are easy to come by at The Dollar Tree.

Kindergarten
Hooked on Phonics	My Stuff
Workbook 1 word list no activities Workbook 2 word list no activities DVD 1 audio wordlist DVD 2 audio wordlist 2 Story books for comprehension Big Bad Ben Time and Same 12 Easy reader books (1 or 2 words a page) Stickers	Phonics Workbook 15 Starfall Learn to read books With flash cards 12 Dora Easy Reader Phonics With flash cards 33 Stories for comprehension and fun. My Book House #5 Primer McGuffey Stickers
	Math Ray's New Primary Arithmetics Used with manipulables Flash Cards Money

Phonics workbooks are simple ways to help spelling and writing practice.

Starfall is awesome.  You can read the stories on line, click on a word and they help you sound it out. They have phonic games to go with each book and you can print out the book and a worksheet to go with it.  This also helps writing.  

My daughter seems to grasp starfall stories more because she enjoys them.  The HOP books are odd and don’t make much sense.  

Dora Easy Readers are just simple books we have on hand but a little harder.  Two sentences a page or so a page.

Primer McGuffey and Ray’s Math book are both free on the public domain archive.org.  

My Book House is part of a 12 book set of which I am missing 2,3,and 4 and a few others.  Number 1 is nursery rhymes which are fun to at any age.

Some of the stories are:

Abraham Lincoln                  Hiawatha’s childhood

All about Columbus             Jack and the Beanstalk

Babe of Bethlehem            George Washington and the First American Flag

Boots and his Brothers        Story of Tom Thumb

Boyhood of Robert Fulton    Thumbelisa

Casey Hones                      Why the Sea is Salt.

Dick Whittington and His Cat