Homeschooling on the Cheap Part 2: Reading/Phonics

There are many different ways you can teach reading/phonics very inexpensively.  I like starting off by reading these books and teaching letter sounds.  These books can be borrowed from your library.

Then we move onto teaching blends.  My son absolutely loves Lego so I used that as a way to teach him how to build words using blends.  I used small labels and wrote letters on them.  When he put 2 Lego together, he made a blend!

Once he was proficient at blends, I showed him how to add a consonant to the end of a blend to make a word.

We also used this book which was a great inexpensive resource to practice phonics and reading.
 

As your student progresses, many easy readers can be borrowed from the library to practice reading.