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Phonics/Word Recognition/Fluency

Phonics: the teaching of phoneme (sound) - grapheme (letter/letter combinations) correspondence. 

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Word/Sight Recognition: the ability to accurately and automatically pronounce a word that has been mapped into one's brain.

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Fluency: reading words, phrases, sentences, and texts accurately and automatically with correct speed, prosody, expression, and punctuation.

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In English there are 44 phonemes (sounds), 26 letters, and over 250 graphemes (letter combinations). Research has proven that explicit teaching of these phonemes and sound-letter correspondence is not only helpful for all students but necessary for a majority. 

Sample Phonics Scope and Sequence

https://www.readingrockets.org/classroom/scope-and-sequence

 

K-1:

  • consonants

  • short vowels

  • blending VC and CVC words (closed syllables)

  • blends

  • digraphs

  • silent-e

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1-2

  • silent-e

  • open syllables

  • predictable vowel teams

  • unpredictable vowel teams

  • complex consonants​

  • soft-c/g, hard-c/g

  • 2 syllable words with open, closed, and silent-e patterns

  • plurals (s, -es, irregular)

  • suffixes (-ed, -s, -ing) and corresponding patterns

  • floss rule

  • word families (ang, ong, ung)

  • vowel-r patterns 

  • consonant-le

  • doubling rules

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2-3

  • reinforce patterns above

  • affixes

  • 2-3 syllable words

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3-5

  • affixes

  • multisyllabic words

  • Latin roots

 

6-8

  • affixes

  • Latin and Greek roots

Phonics and Fluency Routines

1. Review previous sounds/patterns

2. Introduce new sound/pattern

3. Sort words/word parts with and without the pattern

4. Read the pattern in nonsense words and real words

5. Sound spelling mapping with pattern words

6. Underline pattern and read words with the pattern

7. Read phrases with the pattern

8. Spelling dictation

9. Identify pattern words in a text

10. Read a decodable text with the pattern

11. Reinforce with games/multimodal activities

Resources

Short Vowels, Blends, Digraphs

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Silent-e and Vowel Teams

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Schwa

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Syllable Types

REWARDS Intervention Program

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