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Specialized
Program
Individualizing
Reading
Excellence
A multisensory, systematic reading system designed for struggling
readers
S.P.I.R.E. integrates phonological awareness, phonics, handwriting, fluency, vocabulary, spelling and comprehension in an instructional design based upon how struggling readers learn.
Included are:
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Lessons crafted to balance visual, auditory, and kinesthetic modalities to improve memory and learning
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More decodable text than any other program
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Detailed lesson plans and teacher support
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Unparalleled word, phrase, and sentence lists
REVIEWED by Florida Center for Reading Research. See SPIRE Report, June 2006 at
www.fcrr.org
Scope and Sequence
Initial placement within the S.P.I.R.E. program is based upon student skill level and can be determined with the Initial Placement Assessment. Sounds Sensible can be implemented within a 6-9 month period. Levels 1 through 8 can be completed within 2-4 academic years, as dictated by the needs of individual students.
Pre-Level 1: Sounds Sensible
• Phonological awareness and beginning phonics
• Consonant sounds
• Short vowel a
• Handwriting
Level 1:
• Short vowels a, i, o, u, e
• Consonant digraphs sh, ch, th, wh
• Welded sounds -ng, -nk
Level 2:
• Double consonants ff, ll, ss
• a as in ball and wasp
• Consonant combinations qu, ck, tch
• Vowel-Consonant-e
Level 3:
• Open syllables (so, he, fly)
• ild, old, ind, ost
• ay
• Three sounds of -ed
• Suffixes without base change
• Syllable division (twin and non-twin consonant)
• ou
• Prefix a-
Level 4:
• ee, ea, oa, ai, oo, ie
• Consonant-le
• Trigraph igh
Level 5:
• R-controlled vowels
• Trigraph dge
• Hard and soft c and g
• Sound of s as /z/
• ow, oe
• kn
Level 6:
• Prefix a-, ending -a, -able
• ph
• ought, aught
• ue, ew, tu
• oy, oi
• aw, au
• ey
• silent letters (kn, wr, mb, gh, gu)
• -age /j/
• Open syllables
Level 7:
• vv syllables
• -ct
• ei, eigh
• open syllable i as short i, open syllable i as long e
• -tion, -sion, ci, ti
• tu, ture, sure
• -ous
• -ent, -ant, -ance, -ence, -ancy, -ency
• ui, eu
• -er, -or, -ar, -ard
Level 8:
• dis, mis, pre, pro, re, de, ic
• -able, -ible, -le, -al, -el, -on, -an, -ain, -ine, -em, -it, -et, -ite, -ate
• -ive, -ice, -ary, -ar
• Prefix in, un, under, sub, con, com, cor, col
• para, ab, ad, per
• ex, ob, suc, suf, sug, sup, op
• ion, ia, ior
• ch, que
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