Blast Foundations Elementary Student Workbook Set

The Elementary Student Workbook Set (ELSW) - Two Books: Book 1 (Lessons 1-14) Book 2 (Lessons 15-25). It contains the same practice activities as the Primary Student Workbook, but with more advanced vocabulary and sentence structure. This option might be appropriate for some older or more advanced students, such as those in 2nd grade and up. Please contact us if you have questions about who might benefit from the Elementary Student Workbook.

Blast Foundations It is designed for struggling readers in Grades 1-3 and is a supplemental phonics and phonemic awareness program with hands-on, multisensory, and manipulative-based instruction. In just 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week for only 25 weeks, build the important and lifelong foundations needed for all future academic success.

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Student Group Size, Scope and Sequence and Lesson Structure

Blast Foundations lessons can be taught in various group sizes, depending on your situation. When used in early 1^st grade, it is often taught as a whole class supplement; thus the group sizes are large. When it is taught as an intervention later in 1^st grade or in 2^nd grade and beyond, it is typically taught in smaller groups to students who are falling behind.

The scope and sequence explicitly covers the foundational skills needed to help students who struggle with basic skills in reading in Kindergarten through 2nd Grade. Students will learn how to master reading words with complex consonant constructions in Closed Syllables, Open Syllables, Vowel-Consonant-e Syllables, Vowel Team Syllables, and inflectional endings. Students also learn how to apply functional strategies to successfully read multisyllabic words with ease. Blast targets the skills needed to build confidence with decoding skills in order to become accurate and fluent readers.

Blast has 25 units which are comprised of 5 lessons per week.  Each lesson keeps students actively engaged in the learning process with multisensory teaching designed to be completed in 15-20-minute sessions.  In one week, students are immersed in 75-100 minutes of explicit instruction.

• Lesson 1 (Monday) – Letter Sounds / High-Frequency Words
• Lesson 2 (Tuesday) – Phonemic Awareness
• Lesson 3 (Wednesday) – Phonics Instruction
• Lesson 4 (Thursday) – Student Practice (practice words with phonics concepts from Lesson 3)
  
  • Detective Work
  • Word Sort
  • Partially-Controlled Phrase Reading
• Lesson 5 (Friday) – Wrap-Up (review and practice words with phonics concepts from Lesson 3)
  
  • Partially-Controlled Phrase and Sentence Reading
  • Spell It!

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