Videos for Using Saxon Phonics in 1st Grade

An example of how to teach this sometimes-challenging new increment.

Of all the suffixes in all the world, suffix -ed can be the most challenging for students to learn to read and spell with. This full-length example shows teachers how to navigate those tricky components.

A "new-increment" example of how to teach the first vowel pattern of the year.

What does it look like to introduce "silent e" at the end of a word? Here's a new-increment example.

Teaching contractions can be really fun or really complex, depending on your approach. This is (hopefully!) an example of the fun approach.

Yet another challenging skill for 1st graders to learn can be the floss rule, so here's an example of what this new increment might look like.

Certain letters - like 'v' - can't stand alone at the end of English words, and it may help students to learn them faster to think of them as "scaredy cat" letters. New-increment example.

Final -ble can be easy enough to read but is usually difficult to spell with. This clip shows how this skill can be introduced effectively. New-increment example.

Trigraph -igh can be pretty fun to teach, as shown in this clip. New-increment example.

Want to see what it might look like to introduce compound words to 1st graders? Then this video is for you! New-increment example.