Recipe for Reading

Recipe for Reading is a research-based, comprehensive, multisensory, phonics-based reading program that is designed for beginning readers in grades K-3. Recipe for Reading incorporates visual, auditory, and kinesthetic techniques to teach and reinforce phonetic concepts. We generally work on a letter sound or blend weekly, and we introduce one or two red words per week. Red words are words that do not follow the phonic rules that have been taught to students and therefore must be committed to memory.


Red Words: said, could, would, should, about, also, against, because, does, where, what, how,here,some, when, went, every, know, great, other, mother, father, there, their, often, they,thought, sure, were


SpellingCity link for online practice with Red Words:

Red Words 2019-2020

"Rules" Covered So Far....

qu~ q is always followed by u

Digraphs~ th, sh,ch,wh~ two consonants producing one sound

FSZL~ consonants f,s,l,or z are doubled C, k, and ck ~ k comes before e, i, and y. C comes before a,o,and u. Ck is used only at the end of a word.

Magic e changes short vowel one-syllable words into long vowel sounds (pan-pane, not-note, bit-bite, hug-huge etc.)

_ed ending has three sounds -"t" like in fixed, "d" like in learned, "id" like in wanted.

Digraph "ee" When "ee" is in the middle of a word it usually produces a long e sound.

Digraph "ea" When to vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.

Digraphs "ai and ay" The digraph "ai" is usually in the middle of a word and "ay" is usually at the end of a word.

R-controlled Words (Bossy "r") R controls vowels such as er, or, ur, ar, ir