Read Books Extra Practice for Struggling Readers: Phonics:
Motivating Practice Packets That Help Intermediate Students Build
Essential Decoding Skills to Succeed in Reading and Writing
By Linda Beech
While phonics instruction is important for all readers, it is essential for older students
whose underdeveloped reading skills impede content-area learning. This resource
offers dozens of practice pages that give struggling readers multiple opportunities to
recognize, review, and reinforce must-know phonics elements, such as consonants,
long and short vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. With this practice, students
dramatically improve their ability to recognize sound-spelling relationships and use
these skills to accurately and efficiently decode words, which in turn boosts fluency
and comprehension.
