TEACHING PHONICS
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SHORT READS DECODABLES TM
READ TO KNOW T E X T S E T S Children who master decoding earlier have been shown to be more avid readers, thus reaping the benefits of being exposed to a higher print volume. —Drs. Cunningham and Zibulsky, Book Smart: How to Develop and Support Successful, Motivated Readers, 2014 TM
Short Reads Decodables offer short, engaging decodable texts for young readers to practice the discrete phonics elements they are learning. The two-sided Student Cards incrementally target individual sound-spellings, and teaching materials support instruction. Informational text and fiction texts reflect a broad range of text types and genres. Children gain reading confidence as they efficiently decode and gather meaning from the texts. Scope and Sequence Instruction targets phonics elements based on the Ready4Reading systematic scope and sequence. Highly Decodable In Short Reads Decodables, decodablity is achieved by controlling word choice so that children can decode the words using sound-spellings they have been directly taught in the current lesson and in previous lessons.
Short Reads Decodables Lessons Phonemic Awareness: A quick review of previously taught phonemic awareness skills Targeted Sound-Spelling Instruction: Focused support helps children make the connections between sounds and spellings (letters) and practice decoding words with those sound-spellings. High-Frequency Words: Guidance for teaching these words with sound-spelling relationships that have not as yet been taught. Once taught, young learners encounter high-frequency words repeatedly to help build automaticity. Content Words and/or Story Words: Ideas for introducing content words that children will encounter in an informational text, or story words that they will need to know when reading a fiction text First and Second Readings: Flexible support for guiding children to read the new text After Reading Comprehension: Prompts to encourage deepening comprehension Write From Dictation: A sentence with targeted decodable words for children to write from dictation Write About Reading: A choice for children of two writing prompts of different modes, each encouraging them to share their thinking about what they read Multilingual Learners Notes: Links to additional scaffolds to support multilingual learners
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