Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers: More Consonant Blends
Special Resources, ELA, Special Education Needs (SEN), Language Development, Pre-Reading, Phonics, Reading
About This Product
This Reading Intervention for Struggling Readers: More Consonant Blends is the third in a series of books written to provide intervention for struggling readers.
This is a series of decodable phonic books written for struggling readers.
Struggling readers often have gaps in their phonic knowledge or have started to guess. These books help to retrain the child. They start back at the beginning with CVC words to ensure the child can read fluently at this level and to build shattered confidence. Sometimes children think they can read the easy books, but find that they have learnt to guess words which interrupts fluency and excludes them from comprehending what has been read.
They build up, from CVC words, through consonant blends words with a short vowel sound, to ck, oo words. More are coming!
They are useful for reading intervention for older pupils, maybe even of 11+ who are struggling to read fluently.
Pupils should be able to blend fluently and have some phonic knowledge, though it may not be secure.
This book provides longer passages of text, only containing words with three or four sounds (with a consonant blend) and a short vowel sound.
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Who is this book for?
Older pupils who can read, but who have a reading age well below their chronological age. Such children may struggle to read simple text with accuracy/fluency and thereby lack comprehension.
It is not for pupils who are just beginning to read with phonics. Please see my Consonant Blends readers for such pupils.
It is convenient enough for parents to use with their children, as well as for use by teachers and private tutors.
Outline and steps
Having given practice in reading short passages with only CVC words with a short vowel sound in Book1, and then having moved on to short passages with words with four sounds and a consonant blend, with a short vowel sound, this book extends reading stamina and practices reading a longer text accurately while practising using expression and gaining meaning. In my remedial work with older struggling readers, I often find that it is here that difficulties arise, as the child may not have properly learnt to blend, and have started to guess. Therefore, this book gives confidence in reading passages that are totally decodable.
I find that often these children need help to distinguish between similar words, such as trip and tip, and by retraining the child to read accurately using these simple texts - that do not look babyish - and then rebuilding from the bottom up, much progress can be made.
I thought that my pupils would look with disdain at these books. I found the opposite; they were so relieved that at last somebody had actually given them a book they could read!
Simply print on A4 paper, two on a page. cut into individual A5 pages, and staple or bind them together to make a book.
Purpose
These books have been written and tried and tested on some of my older pupils (mainly boys I admit), and they have proved very helpful. Most of my pupils have a dyslexic type problem, involving poor processing skills. It is crucial that they build a secure foundation for reading ability to build upon. This book, used as described will help to build that foundation.
I am finding more and more such pupils desperate for help. You can help too! It is not hard but just needs a little understanding of the problem.
What is included?
1 pdf with 5 reading passages and a fluency chart.
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