Decodable Books and Phonics Lessons

Sounds and their corresponding symbols are taught in a series of phonics lessons that:

• Are systematically organized
• Use direct, explicit instructional strategies
• Provide blending and segmenting practice
• Provide word manipulation practice

Each lesson is built on research-based strategies for introducing, teaching, and practicing a sound (phoneme) and its related symbol or symbols (grapheme or graphemes). Lessons include activities using manipulatives (such as letter cards, phonogram cards, workmats, decodable and high-frequency word cards, games) and worksheets that support instruction and practice with skills such as:

• Phonemic awareness
• Sound/symbol relationships
• Writing and spelling
• Blending and segmenting
• Decoding
• Word families
• High-frequency words

Students practice what they have been taught first by reading words, phrases, and sentences on phonics practice sheets, and then by reading continuous text presented in a series of Decodable Books that use phonics elements previously taught.