Integrated Phonics
Grow literacy skills by integrating stories with phonics lessons
Our Integrated Phonics units pair compelling stories with phonics lessons to build strong decoding skills – one story at a time.
Decoding (phonics) and language comprehension skills are both required to achieve reading comprehension.
Gough and Tunmer, Simple View of Reading
Choose from 96 weekly lesson plans that integrate stories with phonics
- Pre-Reader units focus on initial letter sounds. Companion stories develop listening comprehension, rich vocabulary, and phonemic awareness.
- Emerging Reader units focus on digraphs and trigraphs. Companion stories are accessible for all learners with word-by-word audio support.
- Reading Fluency units focus on important “rules” such as “i before e” and encourage more creative writing.
Activate each day’s lesson with an online story and phonics book
- All our interactive phonics “Letterbooks” are 100% interactive, introducing the letter or digraphs sounds with full audio support – including translations if needed for ELL students.
- Each companion Storybook includes examples introduced in phonics lesson. Reading continues to build language comprehension.
- High-frequency words (sight words) for each story are noted in lesson plans so they can be taught in advance.
Grow literacy skills off screen with printable activity sheets
- Storybook Activity Sheets allow students to write and draw about they learned using vocabulary introduced in the story. Students are challenged to think beyond the text and even compose a related short story of their own
- Wordbook Activity Sheets focus on building core vocabulary and basic sentence construction. These are especially helpful for language learners.
- Phonics Letterbook Activity Sheets focus on reinforcing key words that support the phonics lesson with room for writing or dictation at the end.
Reinforce phonemic awareness with interactive games
- New interactive games for Letterbooks include broad range of opportunities to reinforce phonemic awareness and support decoding skills, key components of literacy.
- Games include: practice identifying letter and digraph sounds, recognizing initial and medial sounds in words, and blending letters into words
- All audio is recorded by a native English speaker, assuring correct pronunciation, enunciation, and inflection throughout.
Use Integrated Phonics units for whole class, small group or one-on-one instruction
- The whole class can participate in an overview of the week’s phonics unit and introduction to the companion story;
- Small groups can take turns reading the story together and completing activity sheets;
- Independently, students can go through the quizzes and games online to test their skills, build confidence, and collect points along the way!
