Assessment of student's automatic reading of primary word families and patterns. Students maintain dictionary of word family words for assessment purposes. Read 100 to 200 little books individually and in small groups. Read for pleasure. Multi sensory activities with letters and sounds.
Teacher provides explicit instruction based on systematic skills sequence.
Provide opportunities to practice decoding skills with controlled text. Student builds words using affixes and roots. When given a root and several affixes to choose from. Explicitly teach cues. Dyslexic and reading disabled need to be able to sound out unfamiliar words .