Go Phonics Decodable Readers
Using decodable, systematic phonics readers, with controlled text, are vital to reading success. Why? Because as students learn their phonograms they apply the skiils to reading AS THEY ARE TAUGHT. Go Phonics readers are 93% decodable, using phonics skills taught to date in the Go Phonics sequence. There are just a few non-decodable words -- taught in advance. The Orton-Gillingham based phonics sequence minimizes confusion. As you teach a new phonics code, pattern, language arts skill... you can link it to meaningful reading -- so students are really reading these stories!
A parent remarked, “When my daughter reads the Go Phonics stories, she can read every word. When she reads out of the other book, she reads words incorrectly and guesses.”
BUILD ON THE SKILLS: Using a building block approach to teach phonics, future stories build on the skills and include words with phonograms and skills taught in prior lessons. This provides the student with important benefits:
- He gains confidence each step of the way.
- He gets ongoing decoding practice while reading.
- There is repetition to cement the skills in long-term memory.
- It improves grammar, punctuation, and fluency skills
- He expands his comprehension and creative writing abilities
The stories are highly illustrated to enhance the reading experience, yet don't give away the words in the story. (Students can't guess.) Done in beautiful line work with gray tones, they add character and excitement without pulling the eye away from the text (the downside of colored illustrations). The illustration style/content makes the reading suitable for older beginners as well. And if a student needs to start out with simpler reading (2-4 lines of text per page), then the Primary Phonics Readers (Mac & Tab) can be used to extend lessons. But the Go Phonics Games provide more fluency practice for reading which often fills this need. This gives students the necessary practice and repetition decoding words with the new sound spelling PRIOR to reading the story for that phonogram or pattern. Go Phonics Workbooks add handwriting (the kinesthetic sense) to learning the phonics and language arts skills that will be in the story. This is another way to solidify skills.
Using the integrated tools (games, workbooks, key word charts...lessons) supports not only reading the stories but helps you avoid gaps by teaching a comprehensive curriculum in a seamless flow of strategized instruction.
Go Phonics is designed to be effective for teaching students who struggle, have gaps, LLD (language learning difficulties) or dyslexia. It's based on and compatible with the Orton-Gillingham approach. Natural beginning readers need a strong phonics foundation too. Otherwise, they rely too heavily on word memorization. Go Phonics provides ALL students with the K-2 foundational skills which includes decoding larger multi-syllable words on their own to become independent learners sooner.
Six Decodable Storybook Volumes
Use them to supplement, or with the Go Phonics Program/materials.
The Fat Cat - Short Vowel Stories (86pp/22 stories)
---*Jack's Cap - More Short Vowel Stories (96pp/21 stories)
Sue and Joe's Pies- Long Vowel Stories (64 pp/9 stories)
---*Noses and Roses - More Long Vowel Stories* (64 pp/9 stories)
My Turn - Stories With Vowels Controlled by r and l (86 pp/10 stories)
Cooking on the Front Burner - Stories With More Vowel Pairs (118 pp/13 stories)
---*Supplement books extend the reading practice (same sequence).
