Steps to Implementation

Phonics Suite provides a comprehensive set of tools to help schools identify, group and teach students with decoding difficulties.

Identify

Our Diagnostic Decoding Surveys, two complimentary assessments that quickly pinpoint decoding weaknesses in 1st–12th grade students, provide useful information about students' word-level reading abilities. Our widely used complimentary set of decoding surveys can be used to assess an unlimited number of students. Schools nationwide use our decoding surveys as a great companion piece to DIBELS, DRA, AIMSWeb, or other universal screening measures.

Group

In addition to our Diagnostic Decoding Surveys, Really Great Reading offers complimentary grouping services. Our Grouping Matrix is a web-based, password protected, computer program that groups students in the middle of 1st grade through 12th grade according to the type and depth of their decoding abilities and weaknesses. The Grouping Matrix has direct on-line data entry, with immediately available reports that group students, recommend instruction, and provide progress monitoring reports.

Teach

Phonics Suite includes two very popular and effective lesson sets: Phonics Blitz and Phonics Boost. The lessons explicitly teach phonemic awareness, phonics concepts, and word attack skills, and they help students pay attention to reading accurately, which commonly translates into better fluency and comprehension. The lessons are research-based, multi-sensory, highly effective, quick, and efficient. They are designed to work extremely well with struggling adolescent readers, but can also be used effectively with grades 2-3. Phonics Blitz and Boost lessons teach the same phonics concepts. Students are grouped in either Blitz or Boost based on their decoding weaknesses. Lessons are most effective in small groups with 6-12 students, depending on the level of a student’s reading weakness.