Phonics Suite for Struggling Readers

Phonics Blitz & Boost Similarities

  • Same lesson structure
  • Same student activities
  • One professional development training
  • Same curriculum goals
  • Focus on accuracy
  • Same expected outcomes
  • What You Need to Know in both
  • Explicit, systematic, multisensory
  • Same diagnosing and grouping procedure
  • Use same manipulatives
  • Lessons designed for 60 minutes but can be taught in 30-, 45- or 60-minute blocks
  • Great for RtI
  • Focus of both is on decoding accuracy, but with elements of phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
  • Explicit phonemic awareness in both
  • Phonics concept taught in highly structured, explicit manner