Help With Reading at Gophonics.com

GO PHONICS is fun, research based, direct instruction for helping beginning readers develop a strong foundation: phonemic awareness, systematic and explicit, multisensory phonics instruction, reading (decoding), handwriting, spelling (encoding), grammar, punctuation, comprehension, fluency, K-2 language arts. A KEY FEATURE: These skills are linked to and embedded in 6 volumes of text-to-life stories. They are decodable with controlled vocabulary that uses only the skills taught to date. They are written in a phonics building block sequence. The sequence is Orton-Gillingham based and compatible. It minimizes confusion and helps students see the patterns in the language to better understand the rules.

INTEGRATED TOOLS (PREPARATION FOR READING SUCCESS):
The lessons, workbooks, and 50 phonics games provide the preparation, so students can really read these stories!

Here is the basic sequence:

Level 1: Letters of the Alphabet-- name, formation, and sound
Level 2: Short Vowels -- a, i, o, u, and e
Level 3: Long Vowels -- Vowel-consonant-e sounds and Vowel Pairs
Level 4: Vowels Controlled by r and l
Level 5: More Vowel Pairs

How are lessons taught?
-Lessons integrate auditory and visual review of letters/sound
-Spelling is done in conjunction with handwriting; grammar
-Punctuation and reading rules are taught
-Word decoding practice by playing a phonics game
-Doing worksheets that include phonics, grammar, punctuation or language arts skills that will be in the story
-Teaching non-decodable words that will be in the story

All of this instruction and practice provides the preparation for success reading the story at the end of the lesson. Skills are also taught during oral reading of the stories.

Go Phonics: A Comprehensive, Fun,
and Effective Phonics Program

The Basic Kit: IMPROVED-2ND EDITION
- Teacher's Guide, Levels 1-5
- Assessments (printables on CD)
- 5 Workbooks*
- 5 Mini-book Masters* (Level 1 Alphabet)
- 4 Volumes of Decodable Stories (over 350 pages): The Fat Cat, Sue and Joe's Pies, My Turn, Cooking on the Front Burner
- 3 Key Word Charts, 96 key words: alphabet, digraphs, trigraphs, phonograms
- Prefixes and Suffixes Chart
- Word Lists Book (over 140 lists)
- 108 Letter Cards (with head, belt and foot lines)
- Songs for Learning to Read -- songbook with audio CD
- 2 Level 1 games (also part of the 50 game set)

Add the Set of 50 Phonics Games for decoding practice:
50 Colorful Phonics Games (12 boards, 3 spinners, 50 sets of cards)
Game Rules Guide, card storage trays, game pieces

*Teacher Edition: blackline master permission for on-site duplicating for multiple student---workbooks, mini-books, black and white key word charts
*Home Edition: has consumable workbooks