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What Are My Child's Skills? How Do I Monitor Progress?
What Are My Child's Skills? How Do I Monitor Progress?
Most comprehensive reading programs include evaluation resources. If you are concerned that your student might be behind, or if you would just like a second opinion, please let your student's advisor know.
We also highly recommend iReady, an adaptive online assessment tool. iReady will help assess your child's readiness-to-learn and skills in reading and math, and it can also help pinpoint gaps, provide supplemental instruction, and record progress.
Links:
Edmonds School District Clever page - Students will log in to iReady though Clever
What Reading Program Should I Use?
What Reading Program Should I Use?
There are many reading programs available, but we've listed a few you may want to consider first. We encourage you to have your child take the iReady assessment so we can help you make the best choices about resources and instruction.
An integrated program that incorporates handwriting instruction and includes many reading games. Logic of English is arranged by level, and not by grade. There is a teacher guide, student workbook, decodable readers, and other resources.
This program includes a student workbook and a teacher guide. The student workbook has perforated pages with decodable readers as well as worksheets with a variety of writing activities. Although written for a classroom environment, this program can easily be adapted for use at home.
Custom Option #1 - Half-Pint Kids
Custom Option #1 - Half-Pint Kids
Use Half-Pint readers along with the Teaching Guides. Students might need additional work with language sounds and more writing activities.
Half-Pint Kinds Online Materials Portal [Readers] - Currently free! The three-level series is carefully sequenced to support reading development. Each level has 18 books organized into sets, each on a different theme. All books have comprehension questions printed in the back.
Half-Pint Teaching Guides: Let's Teach - Free! Guides contain lessons that are easy to implement along with tons of fun, multisensory activities:
Custom Option #2 - Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Custom Option #2 - Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Combine these resources to help create a comprehensive reading program:
Language sounds - Find free resources in the supplemental resources section below.
How to Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons - A classic manual on phonics instruction written for parents.
Get Ready for the Code and Explode the Code - Workbooks with activities to help students learn phonics skills.
High-Frequency Words - Find free resources in the supplemental resources section below.
Decodable readers - Find free resources in the supplemental resources section below.
Is Learning to Read Easy, or Will My Child Struggle?
Is Learning to Read Easy, or Will My Child Struggle?
Reading comes easily to some, but is much more difficult for others. The Ladder of Reading helps illustrate the wide spectrum of natural aptitude people have for reading. More importantly, it shows that with the correct instruction, almost everyone can learn to read!
How Long Does It Take to Learn to Read?
How Long Does It Take to Learn to Read?
With 45 minutes of reading instruction each day during the school week, students will generally have basic foundational skills in place by midway through 1st grade. These skills will continue to develop through 5th grade and beyond.
What Are Some Great Supplemental Resources?
What Are Some Great Supplemental Resources?
Language Sounds
Language Sounds
Use language sound activities such as rhyme and word segmentation to develop an awareness of the 44 sounds of the English language.
Reading Rockets: The Importance of Visual Input [YouTube video] - Learn why it can be important for beginning readers to carefully watch the correct placement and movements of the mouth, lips, and tongue as individual language sounds are spoken. A mirror can help students when they try to reproduce the sounds for themselves.
Literacy How: Phoneme Articulation [YouTube video] - View mouth, lip, and tongue movements as well as hear the sound that is produced as phonemes (individual language sounds) are pronounced correctly.
What's Changed? Skill Builder app - Free! An app to help students learn about the sounds within words.
Sound Beginnings app - Free!
FCRR Kindergarten and 1st Grade Phonological Awareness - Free! The Florida Center for Reading Research's K-1st grade phonological awareness section includes activities with rhyme, alliteration, sentence segmentation, syllables, and phonemes. See the FCRR Student Center Activities for more activity categories and grade levels.
Phonics
Phonics
Learn the phonics code; know the letter names and learn the letter patterns that represent the 44 sounds of English.
Logic of English Basic Phonograms - This webpage has clickable tiles of the letter and letter patterns for the basic individual sound-spelling combinations, called "phonograms" in Logic of English. Toggle the switch from audio to video to see a video of someone saying the sound.
Logic of English Phonogram Flash Cards - Printed flashcards with basic letter-sound combinations.
OG Card Deck - Free! This app helps student learn the letters that represent individual language sounds. For every letter or letter combination, there is a recording of the sound, a keyword, and a video of sound being spoken. Students are able to test themselves with a drill feature.
Word Work
Word Work
Practice with the code; blend and manipulate phonics sounds to read, spell, and write words.
Print or eBook:
Get Ready for the Code and Explode the Code - A workbook series.
Daily Word Ladders: Grades K-1 and Daily Word Ladders: Grades 1-2 and Daily Word Ladders: Grades 2-3 - Word-building games to develop reading skills such as language sound awareness, vocabulary, and spelling.
Online activities & apps:
Reading Bear - Free!
Teach Your Monster to Read - Free! (computer version)
Bob Books Reading Magic Lite - Free! and Bob Books Reading Magic #1 App
Games:
Zingo Word Builder Game - Available in the EH Library
My First Bananagrams - For ages 4+. Based on the original Bananagrams game.
Blends
Blends
Rock'n Learn YouTube videos:
Beginning Consonant Blends with R | Learn to Read: br, cr, fr, gr, pr, tr
Beginning Consonant Blends with L | Learn to Read: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl
Beginning Consonant Blends with S | Learn to Read: sc, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, st,sw
Reading Bear online activities:
Reading Bear: Initial Blends levels a-e
Wordwall.net online activities:
Word chain activities:
Free online decodable readers:
Decodable Readers in Print:
Manipulatives:
High-Frequency Words
High-Frequency Words
Use phonics skills to help learn high-frequency and irregular words.
Heart Word Magic - Free! Animations and hands-on practice activities to help with learning high-frequency words, including words with irregular spelling patterns.
UFLI - Irregular Words -Free! Tutorial videos, sample lessons, and slide decks of flash cards.
Logic of English: Sounding Out the Sight Words - An instruction book with 67 ten-minute lessons.
Decodable Readers
Decodable Readers
Apply phonics skills; read decodable books and texts; ie. "The cat sat" and use them as topics for writing.
Decodable readers have a low number of words with irregular spelling patterns and a high number of words with letter-sound combinations that the student is learning or has already been taught.
Flyleaf Publishing Online Materials Portal - Free for 2021–2022! This publisher also offers Flyleaf Model lesson videos.
Half-Pint Kinds Online Materials Portal - Free for 2021–2022!
Dandelion Launchers and Dandelion Readers - Available in the EH Library
BOB Books - Available in the EH Library
CKLA Readers - Decodable readers used in the Core Knowledge Language Arts program. Free!
Reading for All Learners Home Education and Send Home Digital Edition - Free for 2021-2022! Book series and instructor guide.
Find more decodable resources in the list of decodable readers compiled by the Reading League.
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