The Read to Know Text Sets module includes 18 text sets on shared topics, each of which includes three decodable print books and a background-building video. A Review Book is provided after every three text sets. Teachers can go online to view lessons, videos, texts, and resources.
Read to Know Text Sets: Home Screen
From the Ready4Reading home screen, select the Read to Know Text Sets module to view the Read to Know Text Sets home screen.
Read to Know Text Sets: Lessons
From the Read to Know Text Sets home screen, select any text set. You can also use Filter by Lesson to search for lessons by phonics focus.
To the right of the screen, you’ll see corresponding Lesson Materials and Ready4Reading Connections to lessons in Wiley Blevins Teaching Phonics and Short Reads Decodables if your district has purchased the full Ready4Reading system..
Read to Know Text Sets: Video and Texts
From the Read to Know Text Sets home screen, select any text set.
Each text set includes one video and three decodable books, as shown here.
Select the video to begin instruction for the text set. Select any book cover to read the book.
After completing three Read to Know Text Sets, students will see a Review Book, which offers cumulative practice and application of prior skills.
Read to Know Text Sets: Resources
On each Read to Know Text Sets lesson, you’ll see on the right side of the screen links to Resources.
- Respond & Write: Each book in the Read to Know Text Set includes resources to engage students in writing in response to the text and apply phonics skills through decoding and encoding.
- Downloadable Decodable Books: Students may reread these downloadable texts or explore new texts that target skills they have learned.
- Oral Reading Rubric: Use this downloadable rubric to track students’ phonics and comprehension progress as they read aloud a decodable text. The rubric may be used with any text but may be most informative when used at regular intervals with the Review Books.
- Downloadable Spelling Lists: Use these lists with students to help them learn to encode target words in the decodable books.