Phonics & Reading for Homeschool

PAF (Preventing Academic Failure) is a 3-year program that uses Orton-Gillingham multisensory techniques to teach reading and spelling. It is designed to be used with Kindergarten and first graders with learning differences. It can also be used with older students who are struggling with reading. The building blocks of written language arts are presented in a logical, step-by-step order to help students experience more confidence and less frustration.

Two best-selling, classic phonics teaching resources are updated to support your daily reading and phonics lessons for early elementary grades and for upper elementary students. Both titles have been updated to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading, Phonics from A to Z also includes current research on handwriting and on phonemic awareness, ideas for maximizing your scope and sequence, practical tips for creating sound walls, a decodable text routine for building comprehension, and more teaching strategies. Teaching Phonics and Word Study provides a model weekly schedule with high-impact routines for older students who need support, revised word lists for irregular and decodable high-frequency words, teaching strategies, and much more.

Welcome to an updated, easier-to-use edition of this popular and proven phonics program, designed to take your child from the basics all the way to a fourth-grade reading level. Using a simple scripted format with recommended teaching tools and follow-up activities, the 231 lessons follow a logical progression through vowel and consonant sounds, words, blends, digraphs, spelling, letter patterns, and more, up to full sentences and paragraphs. Includes excellent additional information for the teaching parent.

Grades 1 & 2: Designed to provide a strong framework for reading success, this mixed print and digital curriculum targets phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, high frequency decodable and sight words

Students practice letter-sound relationships with decodable readers. The Alphabet Series with full-color illustrations for grades K - 6 contains decodable, controlled vocabulary, with engaging stories for beginning and struggling readers. Students will practice applying phonics rules while they develop comprehension skills. Word lists, fluency sentences, and comprehension questions are also included. Part of the Recipe for Reading reading intervention curriculum, the Alphabet Series can be used independently or with other phonics and reading programs.

Leveled readers help students by providing level-appropriate predictable text and illustrations to aid comprehension and build confidence. Making Connections Comprehension Library for grades 1 - 6 provides fables, biographies, geography, science, myth, travel, heroes and other fiction and nonfiction genres. The MCI Student Library for grades 6 - 12 is structured in three levels to assist struggling teen readers build comprehension skills and strategies. Genres include fiction, nonfiction, and graphic-novel stories. Readers look like regular novels and include photos and illustrations, ideal for teen reading intervention.