This guide includes lessons that allow you to focus on the foundational skills that are so important to emergent readers as they connect sounds to letters, decode words, and develop a bank of sight words and academic vocabulary. In this guide, you will find tools to provide students with explicit and systematic phonemic awareness and phonics instruction. Each lesson links to an engaging studentbook that introduces phonics skills and provides a strong text-to-photo match in order to reinforce comprehension and build content-area knowledge.

Includes 30 activities for building words.

Introduces phonics skills using decodable texts.

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