Teaching Reading With Phonics

The Program

The author, Patricia Stahl, is a former first grade teacher who has taught both basal sight programs and phonetic programs.
The BUILDING BLOCKS TO READINGTM program was developed from Ms. Stahl's classroom experience to help guide classroom teachers, resource teachers, and homeschooling teachers in the process of teaching beginning reading. The BUILDING BLOCKS TO READINGTM program teaches CVC short vowel pattern words first and includes daily writing dictation skills.
Daily dictation and writing skills are 50% of the program.

BUILDING BLOCKS TO READINGTM
Targets:
Beginning readers/frustrated readers
Title I Students
Intervention programs
Resource teacher materials
Classroom group instruction
Detailed teacher-friendly lesson plans
Homeschooling

Teaches:
A multi-sensory approach to the reading process: visual, auditory,
tactile, and kinesthetic
Sound-symbol (letter) relationship
Left to right blending strategies
Decoding (reading), encoding (writing), and spelling as one subject
Letter names and sounds in structured sequence to introduce
blended sounds,words, sentences, and stories
Word, sentence, and story comprehension

Uses:
Extra large manuscript print to help the beginning reader's eyes
focus on individual letters
Black and white illustrations without background and detail
Continuous stroke manuscript writing