Author: BrainChild
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Orton Gillingham Decodable Readers: let's practice long and short vowels. Workbook with decodable texts to help struggling readers to read. Black & White Edition. Volume 2. The "decodable readers" are books that are contrived to support kids practice a particular letter-sound pattern shown as part of a synthetic phonics curriculum. Books like this have no storyline; they are equally nonsensical whether you begin on the first page, or start on the last page and read backward. A book must be worth reading and provide kids the chance to discover the full spectrum of strategies needed to understand any book. In this book, we have included texts for the student to read and identify certain words within it. You will find that after each text the child is asked questions so that he not only focuses on reading but also on understanding and retaining certain data that the text teaches us. The book is reinforced with other activities that break the monotony and make it fun and challenging for the child, such as identifying the name of the given picture making sentences with the given word finding certain words in a word search and crossword puzzles. In this book we work on the letter 'e' Short 'e' ...................................page 1-17 Long 'e' (ee words).....................page 18-28 Long 'e' (ea words)....................page 29-40 Long 'e' (y words)......................page 41-50 Long 'e' (ey words).....................page 51-61 Long 'e' (e words).......................page 62-72 Long 'e' words activities................page 73-77 Resources..................................page 78-114 Look for other BrainChild titles available on Amazon.com
Orton Gillingham Decodable Readers: Let's Practice Long and Short Vowels. Workbook with Decodable Texts to Help Struggling Readers to Improve Their Reading Skills. Black and White Edition. Volume 2
Author: BrainChild
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Orton Gillingham Decodable Readers: let's practice long and short vowels. Workbook with decodable texts to help struggling readers to read. Black & White Edition. Volume 2. The "decodable readers" are books that are contrived to support kids practice a particular letter-sound pattern shown as part of a synthetic phonics curriculum. Books like this have no storyline; they are equally nonsensical whether you begin on the first page, or start on the last page and read backward. A book must be worth reading and provide kids the chance to discover the full spectrum of strategies needed to understand any book. In this book, we have included texts for the student to read and identify certain words within it. You will find that after each text the child is asked questions so that he not only focuses on reading but also on understanding and retaining certain data that the text teaches us. The book is reinforced with other activities that break the monotony and make it fun and challenging for the child, such as identifying the name of the given picture making sentences with the given word finding certain words in a word search and crossword puzzles. In this book we work on the letter 'e' Short 'e' ...................................page 1-17 Long 'e' (ee words).....................page 18-28 Long 'e' (ea words)....................page 29-40 Long 'e' (y words)......................page 41-50 Long 'e' (ey words).....................page 51-61 Long 'e' (e words).......................page 62-72 Long 'e' words activities................page 73-77 Resources..................................page 78-114 Look for other BrainChild titles available on Amazon.com
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
Orton Gillingham Decodable Readers: let's practice long and short vowels. Workbook with decodable texts to help struggling readers to read. Black & White Edition. Volume 2. The "decodable readers" are books that are contrived to support kids practice a particular letter-sound pattern shown as part of a synthetic phonics curriculum. Books like this have no storyline; they are equally nonsensical whether you begin on the first page, or start on the last page and read backward. A book must be worth reading and provide kids the chance to discover the full spectrum of strategies needed to understand any book. In this book, we have included texts for the student to read and identify certain words within it. You will find that after each text the child is asked questions so that he not only focuses on reading but also on understanding and retaining certain data that the text teaches us. The book is reinforced with other activities that break the monotony and make it fun and challenging for the child, such as identifying the name of the given picture making sentences with the given word finding certain words in a word search and crossword puzzles. In this book we work on the letter 'e' Short 'e' ...................................page 1-17 Long 'e' (ee words).....................page 18-28 Long 'e' (ea words)....................page 29-40 Long 'e' (y words)......................page 41-50 Long 'e' (ey words).....................page 51-61 Long 'e' (e words).......................page 62-72 Long 'e' words activities................page 73-77 Resources..................................page 78-114 Look for other BrainChild titles available on Amazon.com
Orton Gillingham Phonics. 100 Activities to Help Kids with Dyslexia and Struggle Readers to Improve Their Writing and Reading Skills. Volume 1
Author: Teresa Willoughby
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Orton Gillingham Phonics. 100 activities to help kids with dyslexia and struggle readers to improve their writing and reading skills. Volume 1. Orton-Gillingham Approach uses systematic phonics to teach language and promote mastery in students with dyslexia. This approach encourages students to grasp the sound-symbol relationship that is necessary to understand alphabetic systems of writing. In this book you will find a multitude of activities that will help your students improve their writing, reading and sound recognition. Specifically in this book you have exercises to: - Help the child guess a word from a drawing and write it - Find and mark open syllables - Differentiate between short and long vowels - Differentiate between open and closed syllables - Blank lines for the instructor to dictate And many other exercises more prepared for the child to practice with different phonics The Orton Gillingham methodology is not a new methodology. It has been used around the world and validated in classrooms since the 1980s. The Orton Gillingham methodology provides the teacher or instructor with a way to develop a structured, individualized and multisensory reading and language skills plan. Orton Gillingham Methodology instructors encourage students to master their reading and language skills on an individual basis. The Orton Gillingham methodology places special emphasis on multisensory education. Since students with dyslexia lack a level of phonemic arareness, learning to read through phonics incorporating all the senses is highly effective.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Orton Gillingham Phonics. 100 activities to help kids with dyslexia and struggle readers to improve their writing and reading skills. Volume 1. Orton-Gillingham Approach uses systematic phonics to teach language and promote mastery in students with dyslexia. This approach encourages students to grasp the sound-symbol relationship that is necessary to understand alphabetic systems of writing. In this book you will find a multitude of activities that will help your students improve their writing, reading and sound recognition. Specifically in this book you have exercises to: - Help the child guess a word from a drawing and write it - Find and mark open syllables - Differentiate between short and long vowels - Differentiate between open and closed syllables - Blank lines for the instructor to dictate And many other exercises more prepared for the child to practice with different phonics The Orton Gillingham methodology is not a new methodology. It has been used around the world and validated in classrooms since the 1980s. The Orton Gillingham methodology provides the teacher or instructor with a way to develop a structured, individualized and multisensory reading and language skills plan. Orton Gillingham Methodology instructors encourage students to master their reading and language skills on an individual basis. The Orton Gillingham methodology places special emphasis on multisensory education. Since students with dyslexia lack a level of phonemic arareness, learning to read through phonics incorporating all the senses is highly effective.
The Gillingham Manual
Author: Anna Gillingham
Publisher: Educators Publishing Service, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780838802007
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this multisensory phonics technique, students first learn the sounds of letters, and the build these letter-sounds into words. Visual, auditory and kinesthetic associations are used to remember the concepts. Training is recommended.
Publisher: Educators Publishing Service, Incorporated
ISBN: 9780838802007
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In this multisensory phonics technique, students first learn the sounds of letters, and the build these letter-sounds into words. Visual, auditory and kinesthetic associations are used to remember the concepts. Training is recommended.
Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers, Grade 4 - 6 + Teacher Resource
Author: Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
Publisher: Evan-Moor
ISBN: 9781596732193
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers is a comprehensive reproducible resource that provides scaffolded practice of important phonics and word study skills that struggling readers need for success. Pretests provide the assessment needed to differentiate instruction. Scaffolded practice allows students to start successfully at the introductory level of a skill and gradually progress to the application of the skill in a meaningful story context. Practice pages feature formats that are fun and engaging for students. Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers gives teachers everything they need to assess students' skills needs and provide age-appropriate practice for mastery. - Overviews guide teachers to a clear understanding of the skill and offer suggestions for introducing the skill to Grades 4-6 students. - Pretests assist the teacher in determining each student's specific needs, allowing for differentiated instruction. - Scaffolded practice pages are provided for each phonics and word study skill: Learn It gives a simple explanation of the skill and presents words to read aloud and an activity based on recognizing the targeted phonics or structural analysis skill. Practice It builds on what was learned, presenting words in the context of a fun word game. Review It reviews the skill in a cloze activity presented in test format. Read It incorporates the skill in an engaging illustrated story. Apply It applies the skill through phonics-related questions, develops comprehension through critical-thinking questions, and practices for fluency through an oral reading activity. - High-frequency word lists, compiled from well-respected Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary and Fry's Instant Words, feature 240 sight words to master. A reproducible cover
Publisher: Evan-Moor
ISBN: 9781596732193
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers is a comprehensive reproducible resource that provides scaffolded practice of important phonics and word study skills that struggling readers need for success. Pretests provide the assessment needed to differentiate instruction. Scaffolded practice allows students to start successfully at the introductory level of a skill and gradually progress to the application of the skill in a meaningful story context. Practice pages feature formats that are fun and engaging for students. Phonics and Word Study for Struggling Readers gives teachers everything they need to assess students' skills needs and provide age-appropriate practice for mastery. - Overviews guide teachers to a clear understanding of the skill and offer suggestions for introducing the skill to Grades 4-6 students. - Pretests assist the teacher in determining each student's specific needs, allowing for differentiated instruction. - Scaffolded practice pages are provided for each phonics and word study skill: Learn It gives a simple explanation of the skill and presents words to read aloud and an activity based on recognizing the targeted phonics or structural analysis skill. Practice It builds on what was learned, presenting words in the context of a fun word game. Review It reviews the skill in a cloze activity presented in test format. Read It incorporates the skill in an engaging illustrated story. Apply It applies the skill through phonics-related questions, develops comprehension through critical-thinking questions, and practices for fluency through an oral reading activity. - High-frequency word lists, compiled from well-respected Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary and Fry's Instant Words, feature 240 sight words to master. A reproducible cover
Secret Stories
Author: Katherine Garner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692745366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret StoriesĀ® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780692745366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
An educational toolkit for teaching phonics, consisting of a book, posters and musical CD, all of which provides for multiple options and inputs for learning, including: visual-icons, auditory and kinesthetic motor skill manipulations, as well as a variety of dramatic and emotive cuing-systems designed to target the affective learning domain. This "backdoor-approach" to phonemic skill acquisition is based on current neural research on Learning & the Brain--specifically how our brains actually learn best!The Secret StoriesĀ® primary purpose is to equip beginning (or struggling, upper grade) readers and writers, as well as their instructors, with the tools necessary to easily and effectively crack the secret reading and writing codes that lie beyond the alphabet, and effectively out of reach for so many learners! It is not a phonics program! Rather, it simply provides the missing pieces learners need to solve the complex reading puzzle--one that some might never solve otherwise! The Secrets(tm) are sure to become one of the most valuable, well-used, and constantly relied-upon teaching tools in your instructional repertoire!
Phonics from A to Z
Author: Wiley Blevins
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590315104
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 9780590315104
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.
Beginning to Read and the Spin Doctors of Science
Author: Denny Taylor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Suggesting that the contention that phonemic awareness must be taught directly and that children need explicit systematic instruction in phonics is less of a scientific "fact" than an exercise in political persuasion, this book presents the story of the political campaign that is taking place to change the minds of Americans about how young children learn to read. The book begins with a close look at the empirical research being used to support a massive shift in the national understandings about language, literacy, and learning and concludes by revealing the ways in which research studies on early reading instruction are being used by the federal and state governments to support a new methodology that has turned early reading instruction into "a massive business of unprecedented commercial worth." The chapters in the book are: (1) In Which We Are Told Training in Phonemic Awareness Is the Key to Reading Success; (2) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from an Experimental Psychological Perspective; (3) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from a Sociocultural Perspective; (4) In Which We Find Foorman's Research Does Not Support the NICHD [National Institute of Child Health and Human Development] Proposition That "Phonological Processing Is the Primary Area Where Children with Reading Difficulties Differ from Other Children"; (5) In Which Teachers Are Turned into Clerks and We Discuss Power, Privilege, Racism and Hegemony; (6) In Which Governor Bush's Business Council Holds a Pre-Summit Meeting in Texas; (7) In Which We Have an"If-They-Say-It's-So-It-Must-Be-So" Attitude toward Experimental Research; (8) In Which the Kindergarten Children in North Carolina Are No Longer Expected To Try To Read and Write; (9) In Which I Become the Documentation on Which I Build My Case; (10) In Which We Are Told That in America We Are All Equal. Are We or Aren't We?; (11) In Which We Find the Desks and Chairs Are Broken and the Toilets Don't Work; (12) In Which We Ask: Do You Think America Likes Children?; (13) In Which We Consider If We Are Comfortable Mandating Reading Programs based on Neuroimaging Research and Genetic Studies of Reading Disabilities; (14) In Which California Politically Reinvents How Young Children Learn To Read; (15) In Which California Ends Local Control and the State Board of Education Leads the Jihad; and (16) In Which We Enter the Central Chamber of the Hegemonic Labyrinth. (Contains approximately 250 references; an appendix that offers a response to preliminary statistical analyses used to support the nationally publicized findings of the NICHD Houston reading studies, and an appendix that offers "late-breaking" news about the NICHD Houston reading studies are attached.) (RS)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Suggesting that the contention that phonemic awareness must be taught directly and that children need explicit systematic instruction in phonics is less of a scientific "fact" than an exercise in political persuasion, this book presents the story of the political campaign that is taking place to change the minds of Americans about how young children learn to read. The book begins with a close look at the empirical research being used to support a massive shift in the national understandings about language, literacy, and learning and concludes by revealing the ways in which research studies on early reading instruction are being used by the federal and state governments to support a new methodology that has turned early reading instruction into "a massive business of unprecedented commercial worth." The chapters in the book are: (1) In Which We Are Told Training in Phonemic Awareness Is the Key to Reading Success; (2) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from an Experimental Psychological Perspective; (3) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from a Sociocultural Perspective; (4) In Which We Find Foorman's Research Does Not Support the NICHD [National Institute of Child Health and Human Development] Proposition That "Phonological Processing Is the Primary Area Where Children with Reading Difficulties Differ from Other Children"; (5) In Which Teachers Are Turned into Clerks and We Discuss Power, Privilege, Racism and Hegemony; (6) In Which Governor Bush's Business Council Holds a Pre-Summit Meeting in Texas; (7) In Which We Have an"If-They-Say-It's-So-It-Must-Be-So" Attitude toward Experimental Research; (8) In Which the Kindergarten Children in North Carolina Are No Longer Expected To Try To Read and Write; (9) In Which I Become the Documentation on Which I Build My Case; (10) In Which We Are Told That in America We Are All Equal. Are We or Aren't We?; (11) In Which We Find the Desks and Chairs Are Broken and the Toilets Don't Work; (12) In Which We Ask: Do You Think America Likes Children?; (13) In Which We Consider If We Are Comfortable Mandating Reading Programs based on Neuroimaging Research and Genetic Studies of Reading Disabilities; (14) In Which California Politically Reinvents How Young Children Learn To Read; (15) In Which California Ends Local Control and the State Board of Education Leads the Jihad; and (16) In Which We Enter the Central Chamber of the Hegemonic Labyrinth. (Contains approximately 250 references; an appendix that offers a response to preliminary statistical analyses used to support the nationally publicized findings of the NICHD Houston reading studies, and an appendix that offers "late-breaking" news about the NICHD Houston reading studies are attached.) (RS)
The Super Book of Phonics Poems
Author: Linda B. Ross
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780439160322
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Teaching phonics is a delight with this big collection of irresistible poetry! Each kid-pleasing poem helps kids master key decoding skills and targets a key letter-sound relationship--consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Includes instant lessons and activities to build phonemic awareness, oral literacy, and all the phonics concepts students need to know to help ensure reading success. Great for shared reading! For use with Grades K-3.
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780439160322
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Teaching phonics is a delight with this big collection of irresistible poetry! Each kid-pleasing poem helps kids master key decoding skills and targets a key letter-sound relationship--consonants, vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Includes instant lessons and activities to build phonemic awareness, oral literacy, and all the phonics concepts students need to know to help ensure reading success. Great for shared reading! For use with Grades K-3.
Reading Development and Difficulties
Author: David A. Kilpatrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783030265519
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides an overview of current research on the development of reading skills as well as practices to assist educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and intervention for students with reading difficulties. The book reviews the Componential Model of Reading (CMR) and provides assessment techniques, instructional recommendations, and application models. It pinpoints specific cognitive, psychological, and environmental deficits contributing to low reading skills, so educators can accurately identify student problems and design and implement appropriate interventions. Chapters offer methods for assessing problems in decoding, word and sound recognition, and comprehension. In addition, chapters emphasize the recognition of student individuality as readers and learners, from understanding distinctions between difficulties and disabilities to the effects of first-language orthography on second-language learning. Topics featured in this book include: Learning the structure of language at the word level. Reading comprehension and reading comprehension difficulties Assessing reading in second language learners. Effective prevention and intervention for word-level reading difficulties. The neurobiological nature of developmental dyslexia. Reading Development and Difficulties is a must-have resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in varied fields, including child and school psychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; social work; and special education. "I think the book has the potential to be a game changer. It will certainly challenge the expectations of policy makers, not to mention the teachers of beginning readers. These chapters will enhance the knowledge base of those in our schools who are charged with the lofty task of assuring that children have the best possible opportunities to acquire the skill of reading." Sir Jim Rose Chair and author of Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading: Final Report(2006).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783030265519
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book provides an overview of current research on the development of reading skills as well as practices to assist educational professionals with assessment, prevention, and intervention for students with reading difficulties. The book reviews the Componential Model of Reading (CMR) and provides assessment techniques, instructional recommendations, and application models. It pinpoints specific cognitive, psychological, and environmental deficits contributing to low reading skills, so educators can accurately identify student problems and design and implement appropriate interventions. Chapters offer methods for assessing problems in decoding, word and sound recognition, and comprehension. In addition, chapters emphasize the recognition of student individuality as readers and learners, from understanding distinctions between difficulties and disabilities to the effects of first-language orthography on second-language learning. Topics featured in this book include: Learning the structure of language at the word level. Reading comprehension and reading comprehension difficulties Assessing reading in second language learners. Effective prevention and intervention for word-level reading difficulties. The neurobiological nature of developmental dyslexia. Reading Development and Difficulties is a must-have resource for researchers, practitioners, and graduate students in varied fields, including child and school psychology; assessment, testing, and evaluation; social work; and special education. "I think the book has the potential to be a game changer. It will certainly challenge the expectations of policy makers, not to mention the teachers of beginning readers. These chapters will enhance the knowledge base of those in our schools who are charged with the lofty task of assuring that children have the best possible opportunities to acquire the skill of reading." Sir Jim Rose Chair and author of Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading: Final Report(2006).
Power Tools for Literacy
Author: Verena Rau
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979092527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The 300 systematic, engaging lessons in the second edition of Power Tools for Literacy are aligned with the Orton Gillingham method and the Common Core Reading Standards. Become an expert in teaching phonics in the context of syllable patterns and showing students how to analyze or chunk words into phonemes, syllables, base words, prefixes, suffixes, Latin roots, and Greek elements. Mastering and blending these phonograms and morphemes enables students to decode and spell one-syllable and polysyllabic words with ease and accuracy.A report by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development states, "For those children who are at risk for reading failure, highly direct and systematic instruction to develop phonemic awareness and phonics skills is required." In keeping with this principle, Power Tools for Literacy follows an explicit progression of phonics skills proven successful with struggling readers, students with learning differences or dyslexia, and English learners.Designed for grades 3-12, this program lends itself to individual or group instruction. The look and feel of the lessons is appropriate for any age group; material that appears tailored to young children has been avoided.Power Tools for Literacy uses a variety of interesting activities to cover these key topics and more:Short and long vowels with consonant blends and digraphsR-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and vowel digraphsSyllable patternsRules for dividing polysyllabic wordsCompound wordsReading, spelling, and defining 50 suffixesSpelling rules for adding suffixes to base wordsVocabulary enrichment by reading, spelling, and defining 50 prefixesAccented and unaccented syllablesFree and bound morphemesLatin roots and Greek combining formsWeekly spelling lists that incorporate high frequency sight wordsThe unique aspect of Power Tools for Literacy is the use of syllable codes. Each type of syllable has a code abbreviation. Utilizing codes in conjunction with a multisensory technique reinforces the structure of previously covered concepts and builds in review to achieve automaticity.This program is only one component of an effective reading program. It should be coupled with a literature-based curriculum, accompanied by intensive vocabulary development.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979092527
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The 300 systematic, engaging lessons in the second edition of Power Tools for Literacy are aligned with the Orton Gillingham method and the Common Core Reading Standards. Become an expert in teaching phonics in the context of syllable patterns and showing students how to analyze or chunk words into phonemes, syllables, base words, prefixes, suffixes, Latin roots, and Greek elements. Mastering and blending these phonograms and morphemes enables students to decode and spell one-syllable and polysyllabic words with ease and accuracy.A report by The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development states, "For those children who are at risk for reading failure, highly direct and systematic instruction to develop phonemic awareness and phonics skills is required." In keeping with this principle, Power Tools for Literacy follows an explicit progression of phonics skills proven successful with struggling readers, students with learning differences or dyslexia, and English learners.Designed for grades 3-12, this program lends itself to individual or group instruction. The look and feel of the lessons is appropriate for any age group; material that appears tailored to young children has been avoided.Power Tools for Literacy uses a variety of interesting activities to cover these key topics and more:Short and long vowels with consonant blends and digraphsR-controlled vowels, diphthongs, and vowel digraphsSyllable patternsRules for dividing polysyllabic wordsCompound wordsReading, spelling, and defining 50 suffixesSpelling rules for adding suffixes to base wordsVocabulary enrichment by reading, spelling, and defining 50 prefixesAccented and unaccented syllablesFree and bound morphemesLatin roots and Greek combining formsWeekly spelling lists that incorporate high frequency sight wordsThe unique aspect of Power Tools for Literacy is the use of syllable codes. Each type of syllable has a code abbreviation. Utilizing codes in conjunction with a multisensory technique reinforces the structure of previously covered concepts and builds in review to achieve automaticity.This program is only one component of an effective reading program. It should be coupled with a literature-based curriculum, accompanied by intensive vocabulary development.