Skill: Letter-Sound Recognition
This sound recognition drill supports learners with recalling common letter-sound correspondences. Fluent recognition of the sounds different letters or combinations of letters can spell helps quickly decoding new words.
Skill: Letter-Sound Recognition
The Letter Sound Spelling Drill is designed to help learners practice recalling various spelling patterns that correspond with different phonemes and morphemes in our language. Fluent recall of various spelling patterns supports more efficent decoding and spelling.
Skill: Phonemic Awareness
The oral blending drill supports phonemic awareness by practicing blending isolated sounds into words. This skill, particularly blending sounds together, is crucial for decoding words efficiently.
Skill: Phonemic Awareness
The oral segmenting drill supports phonemic awareness and spelling by practicing segmenting words into their constituent sounds. This skill is very useful for spelling words accurately. If appropriate, learners can finger spell the word for an additional scaffold.
Skill: Decoding
The Decoding Word Chain Drill supports phonemic awareness and phonics, by having them read a succession of words while changing one sound at a time.
Skill: Decoding (Reading)
The Word Reading drill helps learners practice decoding a series of words that contain a series of target letter-sound combinations.
Skill: Encoding (Spelling)
The spelling drill focuses on spelling a series of words which contain target letter-sound, or phoneme-grapheme grapheme, patterns.
Skill: Encoding (Spelling)
The Spelling Word Chain drill helps learners to practice their spelling, reinforces target letter-sound patterns and also supports phonemic awareness. Spelling is a powerful lever for both reading and writing.
Skill: Morphological Awareness
The Word Sums drill supports morphological awareness. Morphology is a powerful way to boost spelling of multisyllabic words.
Skill: Fluency & Decoding
Sentence reading drills help learners to apply their decoding skills in more authentic scenarios.
Skill: Fluency & Spelling
The Sentence Dictation Drill supports learners to spell words in common scenarios - writing sentences. Sentence dictation is a way to practice spelling skills as well as sentence construction skills such as capital letters and punctuation. Sentence dictation is also helpful for phonics and phonemic awareness.
Skill: Morphological Awareness
The Word Matrix activity supports morphological awareness by having learners combine prefixes and suffixes with a base word to form new words. This builds understanding of how morphemes change word meaning.