Overview
Saxon Phonics and Spelling combines systematic, explicit instruction with daily practice opportunities and ongoing assessment to ensure prior knowledge sticks and new knowledge accumulates.
Student Experience
Saxon Phonics and Spelling engages the whole student by offering a comprehensive, multisensory approach to mastering critical foundational skills.
Continual, incremental review throughout the year ensures long-term success.
Daily practice and review deepens understanding and strengthens students’ ability to apply concepts consistently.
Explicit instruction in critical foundational skills such as high-frequency words, phonics and phonemic awareness, spelling, and more combine with interactive classroom materials to create an environment where students want to learn.
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Easy, average, and challenging leveled fluency readers provide practice for all learners.
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Engaging stories and illustrations in black and white let kids color and individualize their own books.
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Available for home use, color versions of decodable readers facilitate independent practice.
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Fluency masters complement the fluency readers and provide additional exposure to high-frequency words.
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Individual letter tiles allow students to practice spelling, alphabetizing, and recognizing letters.
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An easy-to-use booklet serves as a reference for grade-level words and commonly used spellings.
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Explicit, systematic handwriting instruction follows the same alphabet sequence as the one used to teach letters and sounds.
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Desk-size alphabet handwriting strips provide each student with a reference for alphabetical order, letter sounds, and proper letter formation.
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Homework folders provide a handy way for children to take work home.
Teacher Experience
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Teacher’s manuals come in binders containing easy-to-use lesson booklets.
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Directed instruction promotes classroom management while scripted lesson design saves prep time.
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Student worksheets let children apply the skills they’re learning.
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Integrated cumulative and diagnostic assessments measure progress and provide remediation for students who need it.
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Wall Cards and Kids Cards reinforce the phonics and reading concepts children are learning through fun, hands-on review.
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Review Decks expand, enhance, and integrate each day’s instruction by providing practice and review.
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Colorful, engaging posters remind children of phonics concepts and the most effective writing and listening positions.
"We saw one-and-a-half years of growth in the first year. Their reading soared!"