Saxon Phonics
Phonic K • 1 • 2 and Intervention
Saxon's phonics series is a success-oriented program that enables most students to develop a solid foundation in phonics and thus become successful readers.
Phonics K begins by working with auditory discrimination skills to see if students are aware of the different sounds of the English language. This awareness indicates that students are ready to learn to read. When students are ready, the teacher begins by teaching the sound, name, and written form of each letter. In order to provide plenty of time for practice, one week is devoted to introducing each letter. When a new letter is taught, students review all previously taught letters to ensure sufficient exposure to and mastery of each letter. After learning three letters, students begin to blend sounds to create words and unblend sounds to spell. Students are never asked to read or write with sounds that have not been taught.
Phonics K complete boxed set . . . PHK . . . $110.00
* Home Study Teacher's Manual . . . PHKTM . . . $55.00
* Teaching Tools . . . PHKTT . . . $36.00
* Student Workbooks/Readers . . . PHKWKBK . . . $29.00* These items are included in the boxed set.
Phonics 1 begins by teaching a new letter or letter cluster every day, then reviewing those letters. First-graders learn two letters, then begin blending sounds to read and unblending sounds to spell. Comprehension and spelling tests are provided to monitor progress. Each day the students review all previous learning and are given worksheets for continued reinforcement. Spelling rules are taught so that students learn to spell by using knowledge instead of memorization only. Common suffixes and a few prefixes are taught.
Phonics 1 complete boxed set . . . PH1 . . . $130.00
* Home Study Teacher's Manual . . . PH1TM . . . $55.00
* Teaching Tools . . . PH1TT . . . $51.00
* Student Workbooks/Readers . . . PH1WKBK . . . $34.00* These items are included in the boxed set.
Phonics 2 begins with a quick review of vowels and consonants and then moves to decoding and reading comprehension. Second graders review all situations covered in Phonics 1, but are exposed to higher levels of comprehension, harder spelling words, higher level vocabulary, and an in-depth study of prefixes and suffixes. Students are also presented with information regarding the history of the English language.
Phonics 2 complete boxed set . . . PH2 . . . $125.00
* Home Study Teacher's Manual . . . PH2TM . . . $55.00
* Teaching Tools . . . PH2TT . . . $49.00
* Student Workbooks/Readers . . . PH2WKBK . . . $31.00
* These items are included in the boxed set.
Saxon Intervention
An incremental development for fourth grade to adult. Phonics Intervention is an
explicit, systematic phonics program for struggling or below-level readers.
The
program contains:
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a nonconsumable, spiral-bound teacher's manual
• a consumable student workbook that doubles as a reference
book
•
nonconsumable classroom materials, including an audio tape, deck cards and
assorted masters.
For
convenience, the teacher's manual and student workbooks are divided into six
corresponding sections:
(1)
lessons/ lesson worksheets;
(2) phonics, spelling and syllable division rules;
(3) assessments and remediation;
(4) vocabulary tests;
(5) speed drills; and
(6 ) word lists.
Instructional
Overview
Phonics Intervention is a decoding and spelling intervention program for
struggling or below-level readers from fourth grade to adult. Its goal is to
provide students with the critical decoding and encoding skills necessary to be
able to read and write
independently. The following list highlights the key concepts:
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all concepts are introduced incrementally and continually reviewed;
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instruction is direct and systematic;
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students learn explicit, predictable strategies for decoding and spelling words;
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all student reading material contains controlled, decodable text;
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students are given daily opportunities to read connected text;
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spelling instruction always reinforces the phonics skills taught. Strategies for
spelling difficult words are explicitly taught and continually practiced;
•
words that do not follow regular phonics and spelling rules are taught and
continually practiced;
• a built-in vocabulary component helps increase vocabulary
knowledge while reinforcing phonics and spelling concepts;
• progressively difficult alphabetizing activities teach
dictionary skills;
• cumulative assessments occur at regular intervals.
Specific remediation strategies are provided for students who have difficulty.
Program
Objectives
Phonics Intervention is highly systematic, explicit and direct.
Throughout the course of the school year, the following will be taught:
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the name, sound(s) and written form for each of the following:
26 letters, 25 digraphs, 7 combinations, 3 trigraphs, 1 quadrigraph, 4
diphthongs, and more than 15 final, stable syllables;
• how to blend sounds to form words;
• study and apply four vowel rules to help determine the
vowel sounds in monosyllabic and multisyllabic words;
• diacritical markings;
• how to unblend words in order to spell;
• 120 sight words;
• to study and apply 10 syllable division patterns;
• about accent and how to apply it to syllables in words;
• to answer comprehension questions about short passages
that have been read;
• situational reading-why letters may make one sound in one
situation but be different in another;
• 29 affixes (13 prefixes and 16 suffixes).
Program
Design
Phonics Intervention consists of three main components:
the teacher's manual, the student workbook and the classroom materials.
For convenience, the teacher's manual and student workbooks are divided into six
corresponding sections: (1)
Lessons/Lesson Worksheets; (2) Phonics, Spelling and Syllable Division Rules;
(3) Assessments and Remediation; (4) Vocabulary Tests; (5) Speed Drills; and (6)
Word Lists. In the classroom materials, Review Decks consist of Letter Cards,
Picture Cards, Spelling Cards, Sight Word Cards, Affix Cards and Vocabulary
Cards to be practiced daily to ensure mastery. They are used by the teacher
during instruction and directed activities. To aid in the pronunciation of
letter sounds, an audio tape is also provided with the classroom materials.
Several types of photomasters
(tests and evaluations) are also provided that may be copied and used from year
to year.