-Comprehensive Effective for age 8-adult, remedial readers, English-language learners, and special education students.
-Flexible Resources and activities work in the classroom or as a stand-alone reading intervention program.
-User-friendly Minimal teacher prep design with simple and clear procedures and instructional activities, suitable for the novice reading teacher as well as for the veteran reading specialist.
-Age-appropriate Every resource, activity, and audio recording has been designed with older children, teenagers, and adults in mind.
-Research-basedTeaching Reading Strategies is a balanced reading curriculum, emphasizing phonemic awareness acquisition and systematic and explicit phonics instruction, coupled with extensive syllabication, fluency, and comprehension development.
Get these essential resources in Teaching Reading Strategies:
Assessments
-13 classroom-tested diagnostic reading assessments: each in multiple choice format with one comprehensive reading recording matrix for easy data entry.
-Each phonetic component in the 28 phonics workshops has a simple formative assessment to ensure mastery.
Instructional Resources and Activities
-The sound-by-sound spelling blending instructional sequence is designed to teach all of the vowel and consonant sound-spellings in just 16 weeks of instruction.
-Sight word lists, games, workshops, and flashcard sets including the non-phonetic outlaw words, rimes, common sight-syllables, and high frequency words.
-The Syllable Transformers whole class syllable patterns openers, formatted for your SMART board or overhead/LCD projector.-Syllable worksheets help students practice the syllable rules, accent shifts, and syllable blending.
-Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Workshop activities, games, and worksheets to differentiate instruction.
-Animal Sound-Spelling Cards and a full set of Consonant Blend Cards to help students practice sounds and spellings with interactive games and downloadable MP3 audio files.
-Reading fluency practice with 43 expository animal fluency articles, each marked with words per line and composed in a leveled format. The first two paragraphs are at third grade reading level, the next two are at fifth grade, and the last two are at seventh grade. Fluency timing charts included.
-Comprehension Worksheets to practice the 5 comprehension questions (summarize, connect, re-think, interpret, and predict) in the text margins and 3 vocabulary words to define, using context clues strategies. Each of the 43 articles describes the physical characteristics of the animal, the animal's habitat, what the animal eats, the animal's family, interesting facts, and the status of the species.
Additionally, get comprehension posters, bookmarks, and context-clue practice activities. No other reading intervention program matches the resources of Teaching Reading Strategies.