Teach students to hear, recognize and manipulate sounds in words.
Covers: Isolation, Identification, Categorization, Blending, Segmenting
Teach students to connect sounds to letters and teach patterns so students will learn to read and spell.
Covers: Individual Letter-Sound Correspondence, Consonant Digraphs, Vowel Teams, Blends, Trigraphs
Teach students strategies to construct meaning and understand the books they read.
Covers: Word Awareness and Word Learning, Sentence Level Comprehension, Single and Multi-Paragraph Level Comprehension, Text Level Comprehension and Text Structures, More Comprehension Strategies
Explicitly teach students how to spell, choose words, arrange sentences, generate ideas, organize information, and understand different purposes of writing.
Covers: Basic Skills, Creating Text, Planning and Editing, Understanding the Purposes for and Types of Writing
Teach students to learn and recognize words orally and apply this skill to printed words when they are reading.
Covers: Words in Context (students are exposed to words in context through read alouds, shared writing, independent reading, teacher modeling, conversation, etc.), Word Meaning and Use (explicit teaching of vocabulary and practice using in context), Word Knowledge (deeper learning of words to include connotation, examples/non-examples, synonyms, antonyms), Word Analysis (prefix/suffix/root meaning, word origin, inflectional endings)
Teach students to read text with accuracy, automaticity, and expression.
Covers: A full instructional sequence
Screen, diagnose, and progress monitor students to drive instruction at school or at home.
Covers: Print Awareness, Letter-Sound Assessments, Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, Word Recognition