Letter Sounds Decoding Drills and Strategies | Phonics Fast Reads
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Are you looking for an extra layer of phonics intervention and instruction to support your students who are struggling with fluency and need help decoding words? Phonics Fast Reads is here to help! Students move through the drills at their own pace, increasing their speed and confidence as they go.Price $27.50Original Price $39.50Save $12.00
These digital and print decoding drills offer an extra layer of phonics intervention and instruction to support your students who are struggling with fluency. If your students need extra practice decoding words, Phonics Fast Reads are for YOU! Students move through the drills at their own pace, incrPrice $34.50Original Price $78.50Save $44.00
Description
These Letter Sound Phonics Fast Reads are perfect for students who are working to identify and blend letter sounds quickly and automatically. These letter sound task cards are introduced in a sequence that promotes blending and segmenting words as soon as possible. Right away, students learn that letters and combinations of letters make up sounds and words. As students master a level, they move to the next. Each level introduces four new letter sounds and reviews the previous sounds learned. There are seven levels total.
Included in the bundle:
Level 1 - a, m, t, s
Level 2 - i, f, d, r - spiral review
Level 3 - o, g, l, h - spiral review
Level 4 - u, c, b, n - spiral review
Level 5 - k, e, v, w - spiral review
Level 6 - j, p, y - spiral review
Level 7 - x, q, z - spiral review
Who should use these Fast Reads?
I created these cards for a few specific first grade students in my own classroom. These students know most of their letters and sounds but struggle to identify the sounds quickly and automatically. They are also struggling with blending letters to form words. These students know that letters represent sounds and that they can blend those letters to form words, but they do so very slowly.
I also created these cards for my own child who is in kindergarten. She is just beginning to take off. She still doesn’t know all of her sounds, so these cards are great practice as she begins to identify sounds and blend letters to form words.
The Research
I created these Fast Reads as a way to improve fluency. According the the National Reading Panel, a few things are critical of good reading instruction.
-Explicit instruction in phonemic awareness
-Systematic phonics instruction
-Methods to improve fluency
How do I use these cards in my classroom?
-Use them with individual students.
-Use them as a warm up in guided reading groups.
-Send them home with parents as a tool to practice at home.
-These cards are perfect for parent volunteers. It takes all of the guess work out of instruction.
How do I prepare the Fast Reads?
I like to print on cardstock and combine the cards with a metal ring at the top corner. If you are printing them so that individual students can take them home, you can print on white paper and staple the side.
