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phonemic awareness assessment (Teacher’s Resource Binder) is provided for first through third grades to diagnose difficulties Guidance is is provided to help teachers take the the information gathered from this assessment and implement activities to help children children develop this critical skill With Saxon Phonics and Spelling all children children are given ample opportunities to to gain phonemic awareness which allows them the the best chance to to become successful readers PHONICS
The phonics instruction in in in Saxon Phonics and and Spelling is explicit and and systematic Children are taught the the sounds the the letters letters that make the the the the sounds and and how and and why these letters letters come together to to form words All forty-eight of the the the the most regular letter–phoneme relationships described in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) studies are covered thoroughly In each Phonics and Spelling K–2 lesson a a a a a single accessible phonics increment or concept concept is introduced These concepts are then continually practiced and reviewed in in in in every subsequent lesson so so students are able to read and spell words of of increasing complexity Evidence of of this practice is found in in each each each lesson in in the Teacher’s Manuals as as well as as each each each student worksheet Phonics instruction is is reinforced and and each element of Orton and and Gillingham’s language triangle (auditory visual and and kinesthetic learning) is incorporated through a a a a a a a a a variety of engaging and and motivating activities Children participate daily in in paced activities related to key phonics concepts such as letters sounds spelling and sight words Additional card decks provide individualized practice or or remediation through games of varying difficulty levels Evidence of of this practice is is found in each each lesson of of the Grade K–2 Teacher’s Manuals under Lesson Warm-up and and and and Application and and and and Continual Review Review and and and and under Review Review of Decks and and and and Worksheets Worksheets in in Grade 3 Worksheets Worksheets allow children children to to apply what they have learned and allow teachers to to track children’s progress daily The program provides children with many opportunities to read read for meaning through the use of decodable student readers and worksheets that have been carefully written to support the phonics instruction Fiction and nonfiction decodable student readers are provided at at each grade level so that children can practice reading with confidence Controlled vocabulary is used throughout the series Children read only those letters/letter clusters sounds and sight words that they they have learned to to to decode so they they are able to to to achieve automaticity without struggling over unknown sounds letters or or words Saxon Phonics and Spelling enables children to have many successful reading experiences FLUENCY
In the Saxon Phonics and Spelling program repeated exposure to high-frequency words at at at an an appropriate level allows children to to be successful and gives them the the confidence necessary to to achieve fluency A specific section of each homework page for Grades K–2 is devoted to daily practice of high-frequency words Each week students in Grade 3 receive both a a a a a a reading and a a a a a a spelling word list to practice during the week Saxon Phonics and Spelling fluency readers provide explicit systematic practice to help children achieve automaticity with high-frequency words The fluency readers which come in in in three distinct reading levels (easy average and and challenging) provide engaging fiction fiction and and nonfiction text that children may independently read in in in in pairs or in small groups The three levels of each fluency reader are centered on the the the same theme but they have differences in genre sentence complexity syntax and number of words per page Each fluency reader is written so these elements are most appropriate for for the the the the level of the the the the children reading them Ranging in in in number from forty-five in in in in kindergarten to to to 105 in in in in third grade fluency readers give each child many opportunities to to to read read according to to to his or or or her ability Accompanying Fluency Masters are available for children who need more exposure to high- frequency words These materials combine to to to give children the the support they need to to to learn to to to read for meaning and with expression PRINT-BASED FOUNDATIONAL READING for Striving Readers
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