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Gilt Edge word-level readers
offer teachers texts and instructional guidelines for providing systematic, explicit instruction to develop students' word-level decoding skills and phonics knowledge, vocabulary knowledge, phonemic awareness skills, reading comprehension strategies and reading fluency all the key areas that research has shown to be necessary for the acquisition of accurate, efficient reading skills.
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Word-Level Readers
64 titles from Levels 1-16

This series of early reading books is quite unique in the way it integrates and scaffolds the development of phonics knowledge into the context of real literature.
In-depth teacher support material provides instruction in the 5 key areas
of reading development:
Phonics knowledge, phonemic awareness skills, vocabulary development, reading comprehension and fluency with reading and pronouncing words and sentences.
|
Level
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Special Focus |
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1 (magenta)
2 (magenta) |
recognition of sounds and blending skills decoding of one-letter, one-sound words and blending skills |
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3 (red)
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recognition of simple digraphs (doubled letters), blending and decoding one-letter, one-sound words |
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4 (red)
|
word endings – y, le, er plus the 'k' sound (including the ck digraph) |
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5 (red)
|
recognition and pronunciation of ed and ing endings |
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6 (yellow)
|
recognition of the short 'oo' sound, the short 'o' after 'w', and the long vowel sounds and some of their spelling patterns |
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7 (yellow)
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recognition of the 'sh', 'qu', 'ng', 'th', 'x', 'ch' sounds and their common spelling patterns |
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8 (yellow)
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recognition of the 'er', 'ar', 'or', 'ow', 'oy', short 'u', short 'e' sounds and their common spelling patterns |
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9 (blue)
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vowel sounds – long and short vowel discrimination long ‘a’, long ‘e’, long ‘i’, long ‘o’ and long ‘u/oo’, short ‘e’ sounds |
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10 (blue)
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‘sh’, ‘ar’, ‘air’, ‘ear’ |
| 11 (blue) | ‘v’, ‘j’, ‘h’, r’ |
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12 (green)
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‘l’, ‘s’, ‘f’, ‘w’ |
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13 (green)
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‘k’, ‘x’, ‘z’ |
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14 (green)
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‘or’, ‘er’ |
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15 (orange)
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‘sh’, ‘zh’ |
| 16 (orange) | vowel sounds – ‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u/oo’ |
in either Word (.doc) or Adobe (.pdf) format