Phonemic Awareness/Phonics Interventions

Students participate in interventions to increase their decoding, fluency, and comprehension skills. Intervention groups are fluid and change throughout the year as needs arise. In keeping with our promise for all children to succeed in Reading, we have several interventions and programs available to support our students. The month of September we are going to highlight interventions used for Phonemic Awareness (manipulation of sounds and blending of phonemes) and Phonics (focuses on the association to the written symbol).

The interventions used at Brooks for Phonemic Awareness/Phonics are:

Jolly Phonics-A systematic, sequential, synthetic approach to phonics instruction. This program is good for students struggling with letter-sound acquisition.

Read Naturally Phonics Levels-Focuses on various vowels and digraphs within highly decodable text.

Lexia-This is an individualized computer based intervention and is good for students who need practice with decoding at the primary level and word analysis skills at the intermediate level.

StarLit-This is a small group intervention that focuses on all levels of phonemic awareness. StarLit is a systematic, sequential program with differentiated hands-on activities. This is an intervention for visual and kinesthetic learners demonstrating a lack of phonemic awareness.

Michael Heggerty-This intervention can be delivered in a small or large group, and is focused on phonemic awareness, on-set rime blending as well as letter sounds. This is excellent for auditory learners needing support with the general education phonemic awareness curriculum.

Earobics-This is an individualized computer intervention focused on building early phonological awareness skills and increasing auditory memory and discrimination skills. It is targeted for students in the primary grades and is highly engaging.

Phonics for Reading-A systematic, research-based, instructional program that provides explicit instruction in phonics as well as phonemic awareness, fluency, and comprehension.

Spell-Links: Scaffolded instruction focusing on phonemic patterns, phonics, vocabulary, word parts and related words, and mental images of words. This program will improve spelling skills, develop reading decoding, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

REWARDS-is a specialized reading program designed to teach intermediate students (grades 4, 5, and 6) a flexible strategy for decoding long words and to increase their oral and silent reading fluency.