These important skills need to be taught and practiced alongside the 10 Steps.
Hearing and manipulating sounds is the foundation of reading and writing. Poor ability to hear and manipulate sounds is often a root cause of reading struggles.
Use The Big Sounds Pack to learn the sounds for important letter combinations like th, ch, igh, aw, and dge This sounds pack includes the 26 letters plus 73 more letter combinations that need to be learned.
Reading words quickly and effortlessly (automaticity) with both phonetic words like "cat" and non phonetic words like "said" are critical for reading fluency. Use fluency pyramids, phrases and small books as students practice in context. Word lists and games are used to practice in isolation.
Spell every session! Sounds to print (spelling) is as important to reading as print to sounds (reading). Gain skills and ideas to work on spelling from very beginning readers to more confident readers.