Minimal Pairs vs Ultimate Phonics Full Version

Minimal Pairs is an auditory discrimination activity that helps children discriminate between words that differ in pronunciation by one sound. They learn to hear the difference between words like “stop - top” and “rake - wake”. They are prompted to “Show Me” the target word by tapping on the colorful pictures and listening for the sounds in the target word and a foil. This app uses a phonological approach to remediating speech that is based on the ideas of Hodson and Paden. The program focuses on target patterns rather than target phonemes. One pattern is targeted for a limited time, two to four weeks, then the next pattern is targeted. Hodson and Paden called this method of introducing patterns a “cycle”. A clear speech model is presented for the child to imitate and they can record and play back their own speech. The clinician can choose from three scoring methods. 1. Score each response as correct, distorted or incorrect. 2. Score responses as correct, distorted, substituted, or omitted. 3. Score productions based on whether they are spontaneously correct/incorrect or imitatively correct/incorrect. This app focuses on Final Consonants, Initial Consonants, and Initial /S/ Clusters. Appropriate for children ages 3-5 with impaired speech intelligibility. This app uses the content from the Minimal Pairs game from LocuTour’s Phonology CD.

This is the full version of the Ultimate Phonics Reading App. It gives you complete access to all 12 levels and 262 lessons and does not require any in-app purchases. This version is available for purchase through the Apple Volume Purchase Program for Education and Apple School Manager. This app is a must-have for teachers, reading specialists, and resource teachers who teach reading to students of any age. It is a complete, explicit, systematic phonics program suitable for kindergarten through adult, including middle school, high school, and community college. Ultimate Phonics is useful in any situation where reading is taught: * Beginning Readers Reading is the most important skill for education and success. If you have young children first learning to read, just an hour or two per week using Ultimate Phonics can make a huge improvement in their reading ability. * Struggling Readers Do you have students who guess and skip when they read? Did you know that word guessing causes poor reading comprehension and terrible spelling? Relying on word guessing prevents students from becoming good readers and blocks them from a good education. A good reader reads by rapidly and accurately sounding out new words. This is exactly what Ultimate Phonics teaches. It develops your students into more accurate, fluent readers with good reading comprehension. * Dyslexia, Orton-Gillingham, and Structured Literacy Ultimate Phonics is very effective for teaching dyslexics to read. The app can be used either by itself or as a supplement for Orton-Gillingham or other Structured Literacy programs designed to overcome reading difficulties. If you are an Orton-Gillingham teacher, you will love this app. It has excellent word lists and decodable sentences, all broken down and sounded out. The app also has a Find feature that lets you look up lessons matching any phonogram in a matter of seconds. This app is a great addition to any Orton-Gillingham or Structured Literacy program and is guaranteed to become a useful tool in your teaching toolkit. * Adult Literacy Adult learners love the design of the program because it teaches them to read clearly and directly, without insulting them. And tutors love Ultimate Phonics because it's easy to use and produces great results. Try it for yourself and see why Ultimate Phonics is an essential teaching tool for any adult literacy situation. * ESL Students ESL (English as a Second Language) students need to learn to read English at the same time they are learning to speak it. Ultimate Phonics effectively improves reading, spelling, and pronunciation for ESL students of all ages. *** CONTENT The complete program consists of more than 4,400 words and 2,100 sentences organized into 262 lessons. The lessons are grouped into 12 levels, teaching the entire phonics system of English. Here is a summary of the topics in each level: * LEVEL 1 (Lessons 1 to 50) Simple words with short vowels, single consonants, and consonant blends. * LEVEL 2 (Lessons 51 to 80) Consonant digraphs (sh, ch, th, wh, ck), qu, x, ng and nk patterns, and doubled consonants. * LEVEL 3 (Lessons 81 to 106) Vowel digraphs (ee, ea, oo, ai, ay, oa, ou, ow, aw, au, oy, oi). * LEVEL 4 (Lessons 107 to 124) Endings (s, es, ed, ing, ful), apostrophes and more. * LEVEL 5 (Lessons 125 to 147) Syllables, compound words, and multi-syllable words. * LEVEL 6 (Lessons 148 to 155) Soft c and g patterns. * LEVEL 7 (Lessons 156 to 171) Long vowels in magic e syllables. * LEVEL 8 (Lessons 172 to 183) Long vowels in open syllables. * LEVEL 9 (Lessons 184 to 209) 22 more long vowel patterns. * LEVEL 10 (Lessons 210 to 225) R-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur, and more). * LEVEL 11 (Lessons 226 to 239) 13 more short vowel patterns. * LEVEL 12 (Lessons 240 to 262) Silent letters and advanced patterns.