STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING READING
A guide to teaching a beginner reader
PHONICS & SPELLING
Bible Phonics – A narrative approach to initial sounds
For each initial sound there is a story for the teacher to read, a rhyme for the children to learn, and a picture.
Bible Phonics picture chart large
Bible Phonics picture chart mini
Bible Phonics stories and rhymes
Progressive Phonics
PART A: INITIAL SOUNDS, 3-LETTER WORDS, CONSONANT BLENDS
Progressive Phonics stage 1 – Initial sounds
Additional resources for Stage 1:
Initial sounds picture collection – small pictures for cutting out
Make your own picture pocket chart – for initial sounds
Phonics games – instructions
Cube for “throw the box” game
Progressive Phonics stage 2 – Three-letter words
Additional resources for Stage 2:
Word wheels for 3-letter words no. 1
Word wheels for 3-letter words no. 2
Word wheels for 3-letter words no. 3
Circle of sounds for 3-letter words
Progressive Phonics stage 3 – Consonant blends
Progressive Phonics stage 4 – More Consonant blends
PART B: WORD FAMILIES (VOWEL BLENDS)
Resources for Stages 5-9:
Progressive Phonics picture chart – Stages 5-9
Progressive Phonics stage 5 – Word families 5
Progressive Phonics stage 6 – Word families 6
Phonics stage 7 – Word families 7
Progressive Phonics stage 8 – Word families 8
Progressive Phonics stage 9 – Word families 9
Progressive Phonics complete word list stages 5-9 (small font)
Riddle Game (based on Progressive Phonics picture chart)
SIGHT WORDS (High frequency words)
The Dolch 220 sight word list is a list of commonly used English words originally compiled by Edward William Dolch, PhD, published in his book “Problems in Reading”, 1948. Many of the 220 words cannot be ‘sounded out’ so are best learned by sight. Nouns are not included, so teachers are advised to make their own list of nouns that are of most relevance to your particular group of children.
Sentence starter cards – cut up and mix and match endings
Sight Word games – instructions
WRITING
Hand Writing
Pre-writing
Stages of writing development in the early years
Additional exercises for Year 3
Handwriting program Year 5 & 6
Expressive Writing
Poetry
Text Types for Expressive writing:
Text types (narrative, procedure, report, recount, argument, explanation)
READING COMPREHENSION
Using thinking hats in developing understanding of texts
The Quick Test – to assess a student’s reading level
LESSON PLANS – how to assist a student in progressing from Level 1 to Level 11 in reading, over 36 weeks, using the Beacon Media stories and phonics resources