Phonics

Letter and Word Recognition

Student has difficulty identifying names of letters (capital and/or lowercase)

Student has difficulty distinguishing and or isolating initial sounds of pictured words

Other Resources:

Enhancements/HM Templates

For remembering specific sound/spelling combinations in decoding or spelling:

• BOB books
• HM Sound Spelling Cards
• Read Well
• Phonics for Reading
• Orton Gillingham

For remembering vowels, distinguishing between vowels and consonants:

Horizons

For decoding short and long vowels, vowel blends, vowel combinations (not appropriate for 2nd language students):

Letter names and sounds, initial sound, ending sound:

• ERI
• Sitton Spelling

Word patterns:

Words their Way (word sorts)

Word building:

Making Words

Phonics for Upper grades

Multisyllabic word building:

Big Words for Big Kids

Sight Words:

• Scholastic Phonics Readers & Take-Home Books
• Multisylabic word reading (for intermediate grades)
• REWARDS Intermediate

Intervention curriculum focusing on fluency and comprehension:

LLI (Leveled Literacy Intervention)

Sight words, High Frequency words, & word families

Comprehensive Phonics (Fountas & Pinnell)

Seeing Stars (Linda Moodbell)

The Reading Strategy Book

Sidewalks (early levels of)

Mini-lessons & corresponding centers for phonics:

Pinnel & Fountas's "Phonic's Lessons" (link to grade 2, grades K-3 available, Grade 3 is titled "Word Study")

Spelling Through Phonics - The McCrackens

Story Champs

Benchmark Informational Text and Fiction texts

Reading and Writing through the Months (Patricia Cunningham)