Watch Students Apply Phonics to Their Reading and Writing!
Even the most reluctant, at-risk students will find themselves excited about manipulating Reading Rods to build words and sentences—and practicing phonics skills!
In Level D, students will use the following Reading Rods Kits to build phonics skills:
- Phonics Word-Building
- Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root Words
- Sentence-Construction
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Target skills for students in Level D include:
- Adding, deleting, and replacing phonemes to change word
- Identifying and applying knowledge of word families, vowel combinations, and consonant blends to build and read words
- Identifying and applying knowledge of root words, prefixes, and suffixes to spell words and to decode unknown words
- Demonstrating and using knowledge of parts of speech and how they are used
- Using punctuation correctly
- Using an understanding of grammar to improve writing
- Identifying and using compound and complex sentences
Reading Rods Phonics Sample Pages
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Student Activity Book-Level D: