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.
-
Engaging stories and illustrations in black and white let kids individualize their own books and also use at home for independent practice.
-
Fluency Readers provide reading practice for students at various reading levels.
-
Fluency masters complement the fluency readers and provide additional exposure to high-frequency words.
-
Individual letter tiles allow students to practice spelling, alphabetizing, and recognizing letters.
-
Explicit, systematic handwriting instruction follows the same alphabet sequence as the one used to teach letters and sounds.
-
Desk-size alphabet handwriting strips provide each student with a reference for alphabetical order, letter sounds, and proper letter formation.
-
Homework folders act as a mini skills reference guide for students to use at home.
Saxon Phonics and Spelling provides instruction for all learning modalities that aligns with the Orton-Gillingham approach for differentiated instruction, including Special Education and Dyslexia.
By addressing these needs through games and using various support tools throughout the lessons, we have the greatest chance of success for all students.
Teacher Experience
-
Expanded scope and sequence with comprehensive overview of skills taught and reviewed in lessons.
-
Scanable lesson design makes it easy to locate important information and scripting throughout lesson saves prep time.
-
Integrated cumulative and diagnostic assessments measure progress and provide remediation for students who need it.
-
English learner support at the beginning of every lesson.
-
Small group differentiation support at the end of every non-assessment lesson.
-
Spelling Deck Cards now have added articulation to support English learners and struggling readers.
-
Wall Cards and Kids Cards reinforce the phonics and reading concepts children are learning through fun, hands-on review.
-
Review Decks expand, enhance, and integrate each day’s instruction by providing practice and review.
-
Student worksheets provide practice for concepts and review previously taught concepts.
From Getting Started courses to online coaching videos, on-demand professional support helps you discover new strategies and techniques for teaching.
.
"We saw one-and-a-half years of growth in the first year. Their reading soared!"