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Teaching Phonics & Word Study in the Intermediate Grades, 3rd Edition
Companion to Wiley Blevin's best-selling classic Phonics From A to Z, this strategy book for upper elementary has been updated to include the latest in phonics instruction and the science of reading. Includes a model weekly schedule with high-impact routines for older students who need support, revised word lists for irregular and decodable high-frequency words, strategies for differentiating during whole-group lessons while targeting small-group work, sample intervention lesson, and more.
416 pages, Paperback
Published January 15, 2023
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December 8, 2024
Very useful tool.
Great word lists and word families
sample lesson plans
specific ideas for helping with fluency and comprehension
ways to gamify
Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins p.355
Model fluent reading-point out how to connect phrases.
Provide direct instruction and feedback.
Explicitly teach students sound-spelling correspondences, syllabication strategies, and sight words
Have students practice reading new or difficult words prior to reading a text.
Occasionally time students reading and have them monitor their own progress.
Include oral recitation lessons: difference between questions and statements, emotions.
Teach students to smoosh words together and read words in phrases.
Explain the return eye sweep movement using a bookmark above the line to avoid interfering.
Teach students about the eye voice span and how they can phrase chunks.
Partner reading instead of round robin reading.
Teach appropriate phrasing and intonation.
Recite the same sentence with different punctuation, .!?
Practice reading sentences as if talking to a friend
Practice placing the stress on different words in a sentence
1 minute drill to find a target word in a passage before they read it.
Motivate students to read using incentives, charting and rewards
Provide readers support (choral reading and reading while listening
Have students read independently before reading in unison
Echo reading.
Readers theater with multiple readings
Choral reading
Paired repeated readings (Koskinen & Blum, 1986).
Read along with audiobooks
Repeated readings of one text (Samuels, 1979)
Read to a friend, family member, or pet
Read to a student in a lower grade
Record your reading
Set a goal and try to beat the goal in successive readings
Prepare to perform a reading
Cueing phrase boundaries in text (in the summer/i like to swim/ at the beach)
Provide students with easy reading materials (Beck & Juel, 1995)
Phonics games: p341
1. word building from english roots
2. word webs with greek and latin roots
3. root search
4. Beat the clock for reading lists of words
5. word detective. Tally points when students see a root, syllable pattern, or prefix that you have been working on.
6. syllable bingo
7. spin it-build words with a prefix circle, base word, and inflectional suffix
8. phonogram families- build words from cards
9. build as many words as possible from a root (struct)
10. syllable checkers -only move to a spot if they can read the syllable (ture, able, tion, etc.)
11.word-part hunt. find root, prefix, or suffix in the room, magazines or books
12. environmental print boards- word hunt at home
13. graph it. graph the number of words they find with consonant-le ending
14. word baseball- read a multisyllabic word to get at bat
15. concentration 12-20 cards matched pairs turned over
16. password-describe word with clues without saying it until partner guesses it correctly
17. bowling for words. On each pin write words with different difficulty levels
18. word sort. Sort in different ways-by root, suffix, prefix
19. What's missing-MAZE guess correct words from 3-4 options
20. unscramble the word
21. make a match with other students who have the same card (need at least 6 students)
22. word card file-alphabetize words first
23. syllable race-move forward as many syllables as there are in the word
24. Favorite book chat
25. Timed reading words as fast as possible on teams.
26. elevator words-make as many as possible from base word (name)
27. word pyramids. place, replace, replacing, replacement
Great word lists and word families
sample lesson plans
specific ideas for helping with fluency and comprehension
ways to gamify
Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades by Wiley Blevins p.355
Model fluent reading-point out how to connect phrases.
Provide direct instruction and feedback.
Explicitly teach students sound-spelling correspondences, syllabication strategies, and sight words
Have students practice reading new or difficult words prior to reading a text.
Occasionally time students reading and have them monitor their own progress.
Include oral recitation lessons: difference between questions and statements, emotions.
Teach students to smoosh words together and read words in phrases.
Explain the return eye sweep movement using a bookmark above the line to avoid interfering.
Teach students about the eye voice span and how they can phrase chunks.
Partner reading instead of round robin reading.
Teach appropriate phrasing and intonation.
Recite the same sentence with different punctuation, .!?
Practice reading sentences as if talking to a friend
Practice placing the stress on different words in a sentence
1 minute drill to find a target word in a passage before they read it.
Motivate students to read using incentives, charting and rewards
Provide readers support (choral reading and reading while listening
Have students read independently before reading in unison
Echo reading.
Readers theater with multiple readings
Choral reading
Paired repeated readings (Koskinen & Blum, 1986).
Read along with audiobooks
Repeated readings of one text (Samuels, 1979)
Read to a friend, family member, or pet
Read to a student in a lower grade
Record your reading
Set a goal and try to beat the goal in successive readings
Prepare to perform a reading
Cueing phrase boundaries in text (in the summer/i like to swim/ at the beach)
Provide students with easy reading materials (Beck & Juel, 1995)
Phonics games: p341
1. word building from english roots
2. word webs with greek and latin roots
3. root search
4. Beat the clock for reading lists of words
5. word detective. Tally points when students see a root, syllable pattern, or prefix that you have been working on.
6. syllable bingo
7. spin it-build words with a prefix circle, base word, and inflectional suffix
8. phonogram families- build words from cards
9. build as many words as possible from a root (struct)
10. syllable checkers -only move to a spot if they can read the syllable (ture, able, tion, etc.)
11.word-part hunt. find root, prefix, or suffix in the room, magazines or books
12. environmental print boards- word hunt at home
13. graph it. graph the number of words they find with consonant-le ending
14. word baseball- read a multisyllabic word to get at bat
15. concentration 12-20 cards matched pairs turned over
16. password-describe word with clues without saying it until partner guesses it correctly
17. bowling for words. On each pin write words with different difficulty levels
18. word sort. Sort in different ways-by root, suffix, prefix
19. What's missing-MAZE guess correct words from 3-4 options
20. unscramble the word
21. make a match with other students who have the same card (need at least 6 students)
22. word card file-alphabetize words first
23. syllable race-move forward as many syllables as there are in the word
24. Favorite book chat
25. Timed reading words as fast as possible on teams.
26. elevator words-make as many as possible from base word (name)
27. word pyramids. place, replace, replacing, replacement
December 30, 2023
Loving it, using it. There are downloads available that are great!
March 16, 2024
Great resource book. Love the word lists, sample lesson plans and quick explanations.
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