VC/CV Decodable Phonics Unit With Reading Comprehension, Fluency, Word Work and Games: Literacy for Older Students and Adults (Phonics Practice for Older Students)

No Prep - Reading Intervention Program for older struggling readers and adults to learn multi-syllable VCCV words through phonics practice. This unit contains fluency, comprehension, word work, teaching presentations, games, syllabication and more. All Science of Reading research-based. This is a print and digital resource. This unit concentrates on VC/CV words with timed, trackable fluency and comprehension practice.

EDI for Rabbit Words, Reptile Words, Candy Words and Hornet Words. Word mapping and games included. Bingo, relay race and more. This workbooks contains links to Google Presentations that correspond to word work for optional direct instruction.

This program works for resource, whole class, RTI, summer school, adult education, student review, push in, pull out and more.

Science of Reading: To progress in reading, students must have strategies for decoding big words. From fifth grade on, the average student encounters about 10,000 new words each year. Most of these words are multisyllabic. (Nagy and Anderson 1984). It is helpful for students to be familiar with the common rules for syllable division. Knowing these rules and being able to apply them flexibly will help students decode longer multisyllabic words. (Carreker 2005; Henry 2010b) According to Shefelbine and Calhoun, “Low decoders, correctly pronounced fewer affixes and vowel sounds, disregarded large portions of letter information and were two to four times more likely to omit syllables.” Several studies have shown that teaching students strategies for decoding longer words improves their decoding ability. (Archer et al. 2006; Archer 2018.)

For Fluency: If you are using this program with more than one student – partner up. Partnering students is engaging and lets everyone participate. This program helps students build confidence while reinforcing learning; additionally, by reading, tracking and reading again, student exposure to each passage is maximized.