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A structure to support literacy development

The week-by-week structure outlined below provides educators with guidance on how FreeReading activities and resources may be used to support intervention for students who are developing their literacy skills. This structure was designed based on leading research in the field of literacy development. It was developed for explicit, sequential, and systematic instruction that helps build, develop, and reinforce foundational literacy skills.

Where to start

First, read this page and the pages it links to (especially the strand pages listed at the top). Then print the first few weeks of instruction. Determine what week to start at as follows:

For kindergarten students at risk for reading, start at Week 1, Day 1.

For first grade students at risk for reading, start at Week 21, Day 1.

For students in other grades who are still developing literacy skills, educators should begin with the lessons and activities that best match their diagnosis of the students' needs.

If you have access to reading assessment tools, you can fine tune the best place to start the intervention for an individual student or small group. This is described below.

Specific literacy skills are addressed through this 40-week structure, including:

Weeks 1-5: Basic phonological awareness (rhyming, onset-rime, introduce phoneme blending and segmenting); letter sounds; letter writing.

Weeks 6-10: Segmenting first, last, and middle phonemes; continue letter sounds and letter writing; begin sounding out (CVC and CVCC words).

Weeks 11-15: Phoneme substitution; continue letter sounds and letter writing; continue sounding out (stop sounds and CVCC words); introduce word-form recognition; introduce irregular (sight) words.

Weeks 16-20: Complete letter sounds and letter writing; continue sounding out (CCVCC and CCCVCC words) and word-form recognition; more irregular words.

Weeks 21-25: More irregular words; introduce letter combinations; introduce VCe words.

Weeks 26-30: Accelerate the introduction of irregular words; continue letter combinations.

Weeks 31-35: Complete letter combinations; more irregular words; begin advanced phonics (word families, double-letter words, silent-letter words, compound words, contractions, -ed and -s words); introduce reading connected text.

Weeks 36-40: More irregular words; longer connected text passages fiction and nonfiction up to 80 words.

Adjusting the intervention as you deliver it

As you will see, the directions for activities in FreeReading are explicit, but educators should use these as guidelines and adjust to fit their specific needs.

If you complete sessions early and students seem to find the material too easy, consider jumping ahead in the program. Make sure that all the students in the group are ready for this (if some are and some are not, regrouping students may be necessary).

You will notice that the lesson formats of FreeReading follow a consistent pattern. This helps lessons fit a daily routine and allows you to focus your attention on the content of the lesson and individual students rather than on the way the lessons are presented.

Using assessments with Intervention A

It is strongly recommended that you assess and monitor the progress of at-risk students. This will enable you to:

Place students at the right starting point

Accelerate or decelerate based on progress

Determine whether the interventions are effective for a student or a group

Choose an assessment that (a) can be quickly administered and scored, (c) gives reliable and valid guidance on whether a student is at risk, (b) allows progress to be monitored, and (d) provides sufficient diagnostic information to place a student in the program. There are many available assessments. One that meets the above criteria and is widely used is DIBELS.

Program resources

FreeReading includes many high-quality materials for classroom use. These include:

The resources provided here are:

Explicit: The teacher gives explicit instruction and then models all skills being taught. Correction routines are also made explicit.

Systematic: The structure includes multiple overlapping sequences of instruction, each addressing a critical skill.

Research-based: You can see references here.

A key feature of the pedagogy is the use of an Introduce, Reintroduce, Build Accuracy, Build Fluency progression. By accuracy we mean helping students discriminate between similar items such as letters m and n or irregular words this and that. By fluency we mean helping students become automatic in foundation skills such as blending.

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Here, you will find free phonics worksheets to assist in learning phonics rules for reading. These free worksheets are printable and designed to accommodate any lesson plan for reading that includes phonics. Conveniently organized by the skills covered, these worksheets come with answer keys. You may print the worksheets from either PDF or JPEG versions and provide them to your children or students.

Each free phonics worksheet also includes a lesson extension - extra activities to help students learn specific skills taught on the worksheet or review material already learned. You will also find an instructional guide with tips for getting the most from phonics instruction as well as a collection of frequently asked questions.

Diphthongs, au, aw, all & al

These free phonics worksheets may be used independently and without any obligation to make a purchase, though they work well with the excellent Phonics DVD and Phonics Audio CD programs developed by Rock 'N Learn. You are not required to register in order to use this site. These free phonics worksheets and lesson extensions are provided to you compliments of Rock 'N Learn with our sincere desire that they assist students and raise awareness of other Rock 'N Learn programs.

Phonics is a tried and proven method for learning to read. Although English is not purely a phonetic language, phonics is an important tool for beginners learning to read the language. Due to the effectiveness of phonics-based instruction, more public and private schools have emphasized phonics instruction in recent years. Parents who teach their children at home also frequently report satisfaction with instructional materials for phonics, based on the emails we receive.

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