Meet the phonics needs of your grades 4-6+ struggling readers!

Turn struggling readers into successful readers with over 200 pages of valuable resources, such as:

• a comprehensive table of contents that lists the exact phonics skills being addressed in each lesson. Target the skills your students need the most help with.
• teacher overview pages that include ideas for introducing and reviewing each phonics skill geared toward the older student.
• pretests that help pinpoint students? strengths and weaknesses so you can differentiate instruction.
• stories and activities with age-appropriate illustrations and themes to keep older students interested and engaged.
• high-frequency word lists that help develop fluency.

Skills practiced include:

• Consonant Sounds
• Long and Short Vowel Sounds and Patterns
• Consonant Variants and Digraphs
• Consonant Blends
• Vowel Digraphs and Other Letter Combinations
• R-Controlled Vowels
• Silent Consonants
• Diphthongs
• Syllable Patterns
• Plurals and Inflectional Endings
• Possessives and Contractions
• Affixes and Compound Words

Each targeted skill follows all the steps of a pedagogically sound phonics lesson:

Learn It!
A simple explanation of the specific phonics skills, words to read aloud, and a quick activity present concepts in an easy-to-follow format.

Practice It!
Students build on what they?ve learned by completing a crossword puzzle, solving a riddle, or playing a word game.

Review It!
A cloze activity presented in a test format reinforces the targeted skills and provides an opportunity for assessment.

Read It!
An engaging illustrated story provides a meaningful opportunity to read words with the targeted skills in context.

Apply It!
Following the story, students apply their knowledge by answering comprehension and critical thinking questions and completing an oral reading activity.

High-frequency words selected using well-respected Dolch and Fry word lists.

This resource contains teacher support pages, reproducible student pages, and an answer key. This is a reproducible resource (photocopying of lessons is permitted) for single classroom or individual home use only.