How to Teach Reading
Using Funnix
Funnix—An Investment in Your Child’s Future
Successful readers have numerous advantages over non-readers: Children who read well have brighter academic futures, greater earning capacity, and an increased likelihood of leading productive, successful, and happy lives. Funnix provides the right homeschool curriculum so you can put your child on the path to a bright future.
How to Teach Reading Using Funnix
Funnix—An Investment in Your Child’s Future
Successful readers have numerous advantages over non-readers: Children who read well have brighter academic futures, greater earning capacity, and an increased likelihood of leading productive, successful, and happy lives. What parent wouldn’t want all that for their child?
Funnix for Homeschooling
No matter your reason for seeking a homeschool reading program, you’ll want to get the most out of your time. Funnix teaches all the skills necessary for your child to become a successful reader: decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
Funnix Beginning Reading provides non-readers with beginning skills through a 2nd-grade level. Funnix 2 presents higher level skills that will boost your reader to a solid 3rd-grade level.
With Funnix, your child will succeed and will associate homeschooling with fun. Just as success is good for your child, your confidence in teaching will be bolstered, and you’ll have the ability to help your child learn more and more!
Your Role at Home
If you’re new to homeschooling your child, explore these tips to help you organize your lessons and get the most out of the experience for both you and your child:
You schedule time for the lessons—about half an hour a lesson, ideally four or more times a week.
You sit with your child in front of the monitor/device, close enough for you and your child to touch the screen.
You select the lesson you’ll do from the main menu, or select “User” to start the lesson where you left off.
You control the mouse. This is not a video game but a carefully sequenced program.
You individualize each lesson to your child’s needs. The narrator will present exercises for your child. The narrator will ask questions that the child is to answer aloud. During a lesson, your child will produce more than 100 responses. For some tasks, the program will stop while your child responds.
Funnix as a Supplement
When Funnix homeschool reading programs are used as supplements, you’ll test your child for placement and use the parts of the program that will support mastery of missing skills.
For children who struggle with reading individual words: Present only the structured sound and word portion of each Funnix lesson.
For children who aren’t fluent readers: Present only the Funnix stories for practice, which will lead to mastery. Note that the children should know most of the words in each story before they practice reading. From the downloadable Parent’s Guide, give children the passage reading tests (Appendix B) and follow the placement procedures (see “Testing and Placement”). If children are near the end of a first-level phonics program, usually they can read the stories in Funnix reading programs starting with Lesson 60.