Rocket Phonics {Review}

Rocket Phonics is a reading program created for children ages 4-10 that is full of fun games, jokes and multisensory activities to engage children in the reading process. It is designed for children with all different learning styles {auditory, visual and kinesthetic} with the goal of creating readers who love to read. Children using the program go from “non-reader to fifth grade reading in two years or less.”

The English language can be tricky to learn. Even though there are only 26 letters in the alphabet, combinations of letters create all new sounds and blends that honestly don’t make sense to little kids. Trying to explain how it all works can be even more difficult. Rocket Phonics focuses on 36 symbols made from letter combinations to help children learn to read with more comprehension and more quickly.

The program provides ‘helpers’ for your child to that show how to pronounce various words. As your child progresses, the helps are removed. By the end of the program, your child is even learning how Greek and Latin roots affect how words are pronounced. This is an example of how non-phonetic words are worked through in the program {blue letters keep their sounds and the other blends/combinations are shown below the letters}.

How We’re Using Rocket Phonics

We were sent the full phonics program to review as a part of the Homeschool Crew and over the last month we’ve been using it with Zachary ~ and both he and I are really enjoying it! Zachary started the program knowing all of his initial alphabet letter sounds and we are focusing on some of the extra sounds {ay, ch, sh, th, ea, ou and oa}. The lessons are taking us between 15-20 minutes to complete and we are working four days of the week.

Depending on the day, we might play a bingo sound game to identify sounds/blends, use the ‘peeker’ to help Zachary focus on one word at a time, or play ‘Go Fish’ with sounds.