Syllabus

Reading Horizons is an Orton-Gillingham-based, multisensory approach to direct, explicit, systematic, and cumulative phonics instruction featuring five phonetic skills to aid readers in learning to decode and encode: phonemic awareness, phonics, spelling, high-frequency words, and fluency. The Reading Horizon method includes:

Intentional Sequence: Progresses from the simplest concepts to the more complex ones.

Unique Marking System: A visual cueing system to help students identify English language patterns.

Five Phonetic + Two Decoding Skills: These skills give all learners easy-to-learn rules for spelling and pronouncing words.

Daily Design: “I Do, We Do, You Do” instruction gives educators a repeatable framework for delivering lessons.

Every lesson follows the same effective, systematic, and cumulative instructional design, empowering students to review, practice, and transfer their new skills at their own pace.

Making Connections supports students to comprehend, analyze, and think critically about fiction and nonfiction texts.

In every Making Connections lesson, students practice and apply strategies to informational or narrative texts.

Before Reading:

• Skill focus

• Build background knowledge

• Text structure & purpose

• Text features

During Reading:

• Comprehension monitoring

• Question generating

• Vocabulary

• Cooperative learning

After Reading:

• Reread for fluency

• Graphic organizer

• Question answering

• Summarizing

Wordly Wise is a research-based supplemental reading program that provides direct academic vocabulary instruction to help students develop the critical link between vocabulary and reading comprehension, advancing them toward grade-level reading mastery.

SC State Standards - https://ed.sc.gov/instruction/standards/

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