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Ready4Reading Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics

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The Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics module is primarily teacher-led and features printed teaching and student materials, as well as tactile manipulatives. Teachers can go online to view lessons, digital activities, texts, resources, assessments, as well as the Student Hub to view student materials.

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics: Home Screen

From the Ready4Reading home screen, select the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics module to view the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics home screen.

 

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics: Lessons

From the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics home screen, select any lesson to review. Lessons are organized by skills, allowing you to easily navigate to the lessons needed to support instruction.

 

The first page of each lesson is an overview, which shows all the steps included in the lesson. You can use the navigation in the black bar near the top of the screen to move among the various steps.

 

To the right of the screen, you’ll see corresponding Lesson Materials and Ready4Reading Connections to lessons in Short Reads Decodables and Read to Know Text Sets if your district has purchased the full Ready4Reading system. 

 

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics: Digital Activities

Each lesson in this module includes digital activities for you to use with your students. Go to the sidebar to the right of the lesson you are teaching to select a digital activity.

 

To access all digital activities, select Digital Activities from the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics home screen.

Activity Tools

As you share the Digital Activities with your students, you can use these tools.

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics includes the following digital activities. See the descriptions of each on the pages that follow.

  • Spin the Wheel
  • Concentration
  • Sort It
  • Word Ladder
  • Tap It
  • Checkers
  • Build Words
  • Blend Words
  • Spell Words
  • Interactive Story

 

Spin the Wheel

  1. To play, have students take turns spinning wheels on the screen.
  2. Players click on each of the spinners and then read aloud the letters or word parts where the spinners stop.
  • Once a spinner is spun, students can spin it again to change the letter or word part.

 

Use the scoreboard to turn this into a game! Divide the class into two teams. Have players take turns spinning the spinners and reading the words. Give a point each time a player spins a real word and reads it correctly.

 

 

Concentration

  1. To play, divide the class into two teams.
  2. Players from each team take turns clicking on any two cards to reveal the content underneath.
  3. The activity will ask the players if they made a match.
    1. If the content matches, the player selects yes, and the activity moves the cards to the team’s box.
    2. If not, the player selects no, and the cards turn back over.
  4. Play continues until all of the cards have been matched.

 

Sort It

  1. Tell students that they are going to sort items into columns. 
  2. Invite students to take turns sorting each item into the appropriate column.
  • Use the scoreboard to turn this into a game! Divide the class into two teams. Give a point to the team each time they sort an item correctly on the first try.
  • Challenge students by using the timer! Set the timer and challenge students to sort all the items before the timer runs out.

 

Word Ladder

  1. Tell students that they will be completing a word ladder.
  2. Have students take turns filling in the missing word by changing one letter at a time to get from the bottom rung to the top rung.
  3. After students complete the word ladder, an image will be revealed.

 

 

Tap It

  1. Tell students that they are going to tap the correct answer as quickly as they can.
  2. Have students take turns tapping the correct answer.

 

Challenge students by using the timer! Time each player during his or her turn. Whoever has the fastest time wins.

 

Checkers

  1. To play, divide the class into two teams, red and yellow.
  2. The game is played just like checkers, except players perform a task on each space they land on (for example, reading the word on the space). If a player cannot complete the task, he or she returns to the original space. Review the following rules for playing checkers:
  • Players from each team take turns dragging a checker one square forward diagonally on each turn.
  • A player from one team can capture a checker of the other team by jumping over it. The jumped checker then moves to the jumper's side of the game board.
  • Players must jump other checkers when they can. A player can jump more than one checker at a time, as long as he or she is moving forward.
  • When a player successfully moves a checker to the far side of the game board, the player can then move the checker backwards.
  • The first team to remove all of the other team’s checkers from the board by jumping them wins the game.

 

 

Build Words

  1. Tell students that they will build words using spelling patterns.
  2. Have students take turns filling in the blanks to make words using each spelling pattern.
  3. After all the words have been built, a picture will be revealed.

Blend Words

  1. Choose a word to blend from the list at the top of the screen.
  2. Swipe your finger across the word or click the Auto Highlight button on the bottom left to highlight the word as you read it aloud.
  3. Continue to choose words to blend, and have students take turns blending the words.

 

Spell Words

  1. Have students say the picture name.
  2. Ask students to take turns typing the spelling for each sound in a separate box.

 

 

Interactive Story

  1. Read the story and questions aloud with students.
  2. Have students take turns putting a circle or square around the target words.

 

 

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics: Texts

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics includes Storybooks and Interactive Stories to enable students to practice their skills.

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics Storybooks

These four-page books provide practice with the alphabet. All Storybooks are available in Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics Alphabet Activity.

 

The Storybooks are also available on the Teacher Hub. Select texts from the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics home screen. You can download and print these little books, and then cut them out for your students.

 

The Storybooks are also available on the Student Hub. For classrooms with all three Ready4Reading modules, the Storybooks include a read-aloud feature.

 

 

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics Interactive Stories

These one-page stories enable students to practice their phonics and word study skills and are available in several formats.

 

Interactive Stories are available for all lessons except the Alphabet lessons. To launch an Interactive Story, go to your online lesson. In the sidebar to the right of the screen, select an Interactive Story from the Digital Activities section. You’ll see the story and activities you can share with your students.

 

 

 

You can also view the Interactive Stories in other formats. From the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics home screen, select Texts to see all the Interactive Stories.

 

 

 

 

 

Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics: Resources

 

All Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics print activity books and printables are available for download online. Select Resources from the Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics home screen.

 

Activity Books

Skill-based activity books provide students with games and activities to practice the skills they are learning.

 

 

Printables

Additional games and activity pages provide more practice for each skill, as well as ways to extend learning.

 

 





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