Phonics Instruction For Reading Success Grade K-3

In this comprehensive resource, reading specialist Wiley Blevins, the author of the best-selling Phonics From A to Z: A Practical Guide, offers a wealth of research-based strategies and systematic, easy-to-implement activities to aid teachers in teaching essential phonics skills and helping young learners become confident and successful readers. Designed to work with any reading program, the step-by-step lesson ideas and engaging reproducible and interactive whiteboard activities provide powerful and purposeful practice opportunities for students.

This 604-page binder that includes:
• Sample teaching schedules, lessons, and instructional routines that streamline instruction and create consistent classroom practices
• 68 units that focus on alphabet skills, such as phonemic awareness, letter recognition, letter-writing practice, letter sequence, and letter-sound relationships, as well as other phonics skills, including short vowels, consonant blends and digraphs, long vowels, complex vowels, and word study that focus on blending letter-sounds to form words; building, sorting, and spelling words; and fluency practice
• Whole-class, small group, and independent practice activities
• Ready-to-use learning centers, interactive stories, word-building and sorting activities, reproducible patterns, fluency-building speed drills, and more
• Phonemic awareness, alphabet, and phonics assessments
• 250+ lessons and activities, adapted for the interactive whiteboard

This resource has a strong teaching framework, giving coherence to alphabet and phonics instruction. Whole class lessons, guided practice, and independent activities ensure children cement their knowledge of key phonics skills. The whiteboard activities bring a four-color interactivity to learning, a boon to ELL students and all children who thrive with multi-modal ways of learning!