Color Phonics [Audio CD]

Eve Engelbrite (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1998

For ages 3-adult. Use with children learning to read for the first time, remedial English students, or for English as a second language. This is a comprehensive phonics program with a coupling of fonts and colors to teach simplified phonics rules, which are not broken.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Alpha Omega Publications (AZ); Win 3.1 - Win98 edition (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0867176865
• ISBN-13: 978-0867176865
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 9.2 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #34 in Books > Books on CD > Religion & Spirituality > Bible

More About the Author

I was born in 1960 and became a Christian in 1973. At that time I published poetry, and sent letters to the editor, and began writing songs. As I studied music in college, I was intrigued by the anatomy of vocal production and the International Phonetic Alphabet, and I worked as a math tutor. I graduated in 1981 with a B.A. in Elementary Education with minors in music and mathematics. I taught sixth grade for three years and then got married. We had a son in 1990. I didn't like any of the reading programs and developed my own in 1994-5; my husband developed the software, and Color Phonics was published in 1996. Our son had dysgraphia, and so we developed a writing system for him, and we published it for others to use. We home-schooled our son until he graduated high school. We continue to write and develop educational products.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Maybe not thrilling, but very useful, February 2, 2004

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D. Hemphill "homeschool mom" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Phonics (Audio CD)

I received Color Phonics 2 years ago at a homeschool convention. At first my 3yo & 5 yo sons got very little out of it...the three year old was confused by the voice saying the word where his mouse was right after the word he was supposed to look for. The five year old was bored, though he is easily bored. Now, I'm finally using it...each child (ages 3, 4.5, and almost 7 now) is required to play 15 minutes of Color Phonics before they may use their edutainment CDROMs. This has worked wonderfully...the content of Color Phonics is marvelous, and is helping my speech delayed 4.5yo to distinguish the different sounds. The almost 7yo has been struggling with reading (due we believe to binocular vision), and having the color coding is a great asset for him. (The 3yo doesn't get a lot out of it yet, but she will...she is also language delayed, so she's just not ready for it yet.) Yes, the program requires a bit of motivation not necessary with edutainment...but it wasn't designed as edutainment...it was designed to teach.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Great Concept but flawed execution, August 1, 2000

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Dalene E. Rice-Chu (Garland,, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Phonics-CD ROM (Unbound)

I ordered these CD's for my 8 year old Dyslexic son. Although the content is great for teaching sounds of letters and phonomes, it lacked the ability to keep either of my children interested for more than 5 minutes. I'm sure he could learn a great deal from these if they were interesting but I found Spelling blaster and Reading Rabbit much more useful. I found myself board out of my skull trying to work with him on these and I don't bore easily. I then tried to use them to teach my 3 year old and had the same results. If your child is able to concentrate for long periods of time these CD's would be very useful. I was also not able to adjust and skip the lower levels to get to where my sons level was. We never made it to the useful part. The idea is great, but it needs some type of fun and reward system to make it work.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It worked for our son!, April 3, 2006

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David Keys (Des Moines, Iowa USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Color Phonics (Audio CD)

Despite a few software flukes, this program worked well for our son. He was reading before he turned five, with little effort on our part, except encouragement to keep on playing the games. I have looked at other phonics programs that cost more and prefer this to the Phonics Game, Fast-track Phonics, etc.