Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers,New

Meet the phonics needs of your grades 46+ struggling readers!Provide your students with the targeted phonics skills practice they need to become successful readers! Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers uses engaging stories and activities rich with spelling/sound patterns and sight words frequently used in reading texts to help students develop fluency and decoding skills.Turn struggling readers into successful readers with over 200 pages of valuable resources, such as: a comprehensive table of contents that lists the exact phonics skills being addressed in each lesson. Target the skills your students need the most help with. teacher overview pages that include ideas for introducing and reviewing each phonics skill geared toward the older student. pretests that help pinpoint students' strengths and weaknesses so you can differentiate instruction. stories and activities with ageappropriate illustrations and themes to keep older students interested and engaged. highfrequency word lists that help develop fluency.Skills practiced include: Consonant Sounds Long and Short Vowel Sounds and Patterns Consonant Variants and Digraphs Consonant Blends Vowel Digraphs and Other Letter Combinations RControlled Vowels Silent Consonants Diphthongs Syllable Patterns Plurals and Inflectional Endings Possessives and Contractions Affixes and Compound WordsEach targeted skill follows all the steps of a pedagogically sound phonics lesson:Learn It!A simple explanation of the specific phonics skills, words to read aloud, and a quick activity present concepts in an easytofollow format.Practice It!Students build on what they've learned by completing a crossword puzzle, solving a riddle, or playing a word game.Review It!A cloze activity presented in a test format reinforces the targeted skills and provides an opportunity for assessment.Read It!An engaging illustrated story provides a meaningful opportunity to read words with the targeted skills in context.Apply It!Following the story, students apply their knowledge by answering comprehension and critical thinking questions and completing an oral reading activity.Highfrequency words selected using wellrespected Dolch and Fry word lists.Students' ability to read highfrequency words quickly and accurately is critical to reading with ease and confidence. The 240 highfrequency words used in Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers are compiled from the Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary and Fry's Instant Words lists.Provide your students with focused and repeated practice with these critical words using the student word lists and word list booklets.This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.About EvanMoorA leader in PreK8 educational publishing, EvanMoor has been a trusted partner of teachers and parents for over 40 years. Our mission is helping children learn, and we do this by creating resources that motivate children to learn important skills and concepts across the curriculum while also inspiring a love of learning.