These units provide a lean and concise instructional pathway in phonics that is realistic and doable, and that taps into kids’ skills and energy for tackling the fabulous challenge of learning to read and write, introduce high-leverage phonics concepts and strategies in a way that keeps pace with students’ reading and writing and helps them understand when, how, and why they can use phonics to read and write, offer delightfully fun and engaging storylines, classroom mascots, songs, chants, rhymes, and games to help students fall head over heels in love with phonics and to create a joyous community of learners, align with state-of-the-art reading and writing workshops for a coherent approach in which terminology, tools, rituals, and methods are shared in ways that benefit both teachers and kids.

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Bend 1. Becoming word builders: writing big words: 1. Word builders wanted: building words with the biggest parts you know -- 2. Building bigger, longer, more complex words, syllable by syllable -- 3. Checking for vowels in every syllable -- 4. Using analogy to spell big words accurately -- 5. Using spelling strategies to check and fix up really important words -- 6. Learning to spell the words you love -- Bend 2. Becoming vowel experts: using long vowel patterns to build big words: 7. What looks right? developing a visual checking sense -- 8. Discovering and sorting ways to spell words with long A -- 9. Listen for where you hear the vowels: deciding which long A spelling to use -- 10. From little words to big words: building words with the long E sound -- 11. Using long I spelling patterns to spell more and more words: interactive editing -- 12. Adding inflected endings to words with long vowels: reviewing words with long A, E, and I -- 13. Studying and sorting long O spellings to help you write big words -- 14. Listening for long U spelling patterns in words you know to spell new words -- Bend 3. Becoming experts in word demolition: using vowels to help decode big words: 15. Word demolition: watching out for vowel patterns -- 16. Keeping vowel teams together when decoding words -- 17. Reading like a pirate: staying on the lookout for R-controlled vowels -- 18. Getting to know the word part -ture to help read and write complex words -- 19. Trying Schwa, "The frustrated sound," to solve tricky words -- 20. Let's celebrate! Making commercials for the BLC Construction and Demolition Company!.