Phonic Readers, Matching Worksheets and PowerPoint Pack 1: CK

A CK decodable reader, 38 supporting worksheets and a matching PowerPoint

This is the first pack in our Jack Stories: Phonic Reading Scheme for older Pupils.

It is suitable for those with poor phonemic awareness/poor processing skills, be that due to autism, dyslexia or any other need.

The Phonic Reading Scheme for Older Pupils is for budding historians who may be older pupils and may have special needs and need a more mature storyline than cats and dogs!

It follows on from the first five vowel lessons.

These books should be read in series as they are incremental.

Typical signs that this programme can help:

·         Difficulty recalling words when seen on flashcards or when reading texts, which results in no or little reading fluency

·         b/d letter reversal of a chronic nature – i.e. the child has not grown out of it

·         Difficulty ordering letters in words: E.g. top becomes pot.

·         Difficulty differentiating between like words: spoon/soon; back/black; sheep/sleep etc…

·         Difficulty tracking words across a page

Objectives:

To help children to develop a core set of decodable words, that they have seen enough times so that they no longer have to sound them out but can recognise them easily and recall them when needed.

One of the biggest problems for struggling readers is that often, phonic reading books do not give the child a chance to see the same words again and again and so some children are forced to sound out nearly every word, which slows their speed of reading right down and means that they often cannot understand what they have read.

Order, outlined and steps:

The Reading Made Simple Reading and Spelling programme for struggling readers focuses the child's attention on around ten words containing the same phonic sound, at a time. For struggling readers, these lists are subdivided into two sets of 5 and the lesson is spread over 2 weeks.

During these two weeks, the words are practised in various ways:

• On flashcards provided

• Sentence building with the flashcards

• Speed reading of just the ten words

• Sentence writing activities

• Fluency charts

• Games

• Reading books which only contain the words that have been introduced.

The reading books should be used as a form of assessment and any words that the child needs to sound out can be practised further, while you move on to the next sound.

Multisensory:

Children who struggle to learn to read often need a multisensory approach. This Learn to Read and Spell programme uses the power of the hand to provide the multisensory dimension so often lacking in many 'learn to read' programmes.

The child not only sounds out the words to read but also to write.

The words are then put into sentences to read and write, building up as we go into a longer text

Confidence building

Because we are working with a discrete set of words, with the same sound, the child soon learns to recognise the words in each lesson, having sounded them out, read them, and written them many times in many fun ways.

As the child reads each book, you can watch as s/he finally begins to say, 'I can do this!' as s/he meets familiar words.

Directions

Full teaching notes are provided.

What is included?

1 PDF - 12 pages X A5

1 PDF of 38 supporting activities

One 12-slide PowerPoint

Print as a booklet

Flip on the short edge