Students learn to pause during reading to ask clarifying questions when they are confused or curious. They practice distinguishing between 'right there' questions and 'think and search' questions.
A reading intervention unit targeting the critical spelling changes that occur at suffix boundaries, designed for older struggling readers. The sequence covers final consonant doubling and silent-e dropping logic.
A high-impact phonics crash course for Fundations Level 2 Unit 12, focusing on vowel teams 'oi' and 'oy' in single and multisyllabic words, plus heart words 'favorite', 'early', and 'ocean'. Includes comprehensive slides and structured worksheets.
Focused student practice activities for orthographic mapping, tracing, and writing the Unit 12 trick/heart words: favorite, early, and ocean.
A structured reading intervention sequence at Douglas School combining targeted phonic lessons with the multisensory Nessy online literacy system.
A comprehensive Unit 9 spelling and decoding diagnostic assessment for high school readers. It includes student test sections for spelling-change rules, alternate-spelling recognition, sound-sorting, and sentence reading.
A student fill-in-the-blank worksheet designed to reinforce vocabulary context and spelling of oi/oy phonics words and heart words (favorite, early, ocean).
A structured high school reading intervention sequence focusing on silent consonants, orthographic markers, pluralization rules, and academic spelling structures.
A comprehensive Unit 9 review lesson for high school readers. This lesson synthesizes and reinforces the consonant doubling rule, drop-e rule, y-to-i shift, unaccented final -ar/-or, alternate /air/ and /ear/ vowel contrasts, and alternate long-a spellings.
A syllable division matching and assembly worksheet where students combine prefix/root syllables to build, write, and segment multisyllabic oi and oy words.
A 3-lesson phonics sequence focused on teaching Vowel-Consonant-e (V-e) syllables to late first and second graders. Using a whimsical 'Word Wizards' theme, it covers foundations, vowel expansion, and blends/digraphs, complete with guides, slides, practice pages, and assessments.
A structured, age-appropriate reading intervention lesson designed for high school readers. This lesson explicitly teaches alternate spellings for the long /ā/ sound (such as ei, ey, eigh, aigh, ea), while spiraling and reinforcing common long-a spellings like ai and ay.
A student worksheet for categorizing 'oi' and 'oy' words, including both single and multisyllabic words, with an integrated section for marking up syllable types and vowel teams.