Intervention Strategies: Phonics

 
 

When the student is:

 

an emergent reader struggling with letter recognition, or problems with learning sounds of letters or sound/letter corespondence

a beginning reader struggling with blending letter sounds into words, segmenting, short and long vowel patterns, single consonant sounds, consonant blends, digraphs, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, or inflected endings

an “at-risk” reader, second grade or older, who doesn’t spell well, who makes frequent decoding errors which impact fluency, or who struggles with reading multi-syllabic words

Strategies

  • picture cards/key words
  • alphabet flash cards
  • alphabet maps
  • manipulatives
  • computer activities
  • sound production in front of a mirror
  • describing how letter sounds feel

Strategies

  • blend sound by sound
  • onset/rime blending
  • Elkonin boxes
  • Phoneme Grapheme Mapping
  • separate letters that are visually or auditorially similar
  • use decodable text
  • word sorts, word chains and spelling chains
  • building words (Making Words)
  • mapping words

Strategies

  • building words
  • word chains and spelling chains
  • Phoneme Grapheme Mapping
  • reading decodable text
  • teaching syllable types
  • prefixes/suffixes
  • roots and word origins
  • morphemic analysis
  • accented/unaccented syllables
  • derivations
  • flexing vowels in multi-syllabic words

Resources

  • Harcourt phonics lessons
  • manipulatives (letters, tiles, etc.)
  • Rode to the Code
  • Earobics
  • Waterford Reading Program

Resources

  • Harcourt phonics lessons
  • manipulatives (letters, tiles, etc.)
  • Rode to the Code
  • Earobics
  • Waterford Reading Program
  • ABeCeDarian Reading Plan
  • Phonographix
  • Reading Mastery
  • Words Their Way
  • Making Words

Resources

  • Harcourt phonics lessons
  • manipulatives (letters, tiles, etc.)
  • Earobics
  • ABeCeDarian Reading Plan
  • Phonographix
  • REWARDS
  • Corrective Reading
  • Words Their Way
  • Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades
  • Unlocking Literacy
 
 

Developed collaboratively by the Reading and Language Arts Department, Exceptional Student Education, School Psychological Services, and the ESOL Department, Volusia County Schools, Florida. January, 2005

 
 
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