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Really Great Reading® specializes in helping educators improve the basic reading skills of students in grades 2–12. The core of our approach is Phonics Suite™. The Phonics Suite approach helps

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educators identify, group, and teach students struggling to efficiently lift words from the page.

Phonics Suite lessons teach students the skills they should have mastered in K–2. Lessons are flexible, and skills are taught in an appropriately paced, mature manner. The charts to the right illustrate just one of the many remarkable successes from all around the country.

Be sure to check our newly released Phonics Boost Skills Assessments and Phonics Boost Plus pp. 8–9.

Table of Contents Results Diagnostic Decoding Surveys & Grouping Matrix ™ Phonics Suite Multisensory Phonics Tools Online Resources Professional Development

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Results When students acquire the skills and knowledge they need to be more effective, accurate, and confident decoders, the net effect is:

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3. Greater comprehension and overall higher confidence!

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Phonics Suite™ — An Integrated Approach

The Phonics Suite approach turns frustrated readers into independe

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Screening measures (AIMSweb®, DIBELS®) will identify students who are struggling to read grade-level text fluently.

Our free Diagnostic Decoding Surveys (DDS) (pp. 2–3) will help identify which students have decoding deficits. In just minutes, they identify which types of words students are struggling with and the phonics features causing confusion.

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When you combine the results from an Oral Reading Fluency (ORF) and the DDS (pp. 2–3), the data can be used to group students for decoding instruction.

Provide students with appropriate instruction based on their specific needs.

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Decoding is not a significant problem for these students and is not impairing their reading comprehension. Students with a slow reading rate will benefit from fluency instruction.

These students are strong with the basics, but struggle with more complex words. They need targeted phonics instruction.

Phonics Blitz™ (pp. 4–5) is the appropriate Tier 2 intervention solution for students in grades 4–12.

Phonics Boost™ should be used for students in grades 2–3.

These students need a Tier 3 phonics based intervention. Phonics Boost (pp. 6–7) is an appropriate solution for these students.

When students have severe decoding weaknesses, Phonics Boost supplemented with Phonics Boost Plus™ (p. 9) may be the right solution for them.

Something other than decoding is interfering with students’ ability to decode.

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Diagnostic Decoding Surveys Teachers across the country use the Diagnostic Decoding Surveys to accurately and efficiently identify gaps in phonics knowledge.

The surveys assess a student's ability to read familiar and unfamiliar words with varied levels of phonics complexity.

The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys have seven different forms for progress monitoring. Administering both surveys takes just five minutes.

Decoding Surveys User’s Guide Provides all the information needed to administer, score, and interpret both surveys, including reproducible blackline masters of scoring sheets for the seven forms (A–G) of both surveys. The User’s Guide explains the research supporting the surveys and how they fit into an RtI model.

Quick Facts Informal diagnostic tool Pinpoints decoding weaknesses Works for students in grades 1–12

The Grouping Matrix ™ This free, web-based program enables you to group students (from the middle of grade 1 through grade 12) according to the type and depth of their decoding difficulties. The Grouping Matrix also provides instructional recommendations for each group of students and allows you to track individual and group progress. (To see grouping categories, refer to the chart on the inside front cover.)

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Premium Decoding Surveys Package DSPAK $69 • User’s Guide • Student Materials Book • 20 Recording Form Booklets

Decoding Surveys Student Materials Book Includes all the student prompts for forms A-G. This book is tabbed for easy use and includes a Summary Directions Sheet for quick reference.

• Student Materials Book DSSM $28 • With User's Guide DSGSM $57

Recording Form Booklets Includes all seven recording forms (A-G) in one place, eliminating the need to copy scoring sheets. This makes it easy to organize the surveys by intervention group, classroom, grade, or school, and to analyze a student’s progressmonitoring data.

• 20 booklets DSRF20 $13.50 • 100 booklets DSRF100 $62

Visit reallygreatreading.com/dds to download a complimentary Diagnostic Decoding Survey.

Quick Facts Identifies and groups students for decoding instruction Provides easy-to-read reports and graphs Enables progress monitoring for individuals and groups

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Phonics Suite™

Phonics Blitz™ Phonics Blitz is a set of 50 explicit, multisensory lessons designed for students in grades 4–12 who have gaps in their phonics knowledge and are struggling to read fluently. Phonics Blitz helps students who misread unfamiliar words, struggle with reading multi-syllable words, skip or add words, read more slowly, and read less accurately than expected.

Phonics Blitz students primarily need to break guessing habits, learn how to read multi-syllable words, and understand vowel spellings.

Phonics Blitz lessons are often completed in just 10–12 weeks. The materials are recommended for students with mild to moderate decoding weaknesses.

Quick Facts For Rtl, Title I, and ELL Tier 2 decoding intervention Improves fluency and comprehension

Phonics Blitz Lesson Plans PBTG $259 Set includes 2 spiral-bound lesson plan books with 25 lessons each, a set of 8 posters, and the 2 Phonics Blitz Student Workbooks.

“ Phonics Blitz ... ensure(s) struggling readers are able to graduate from schools reading, comprehending, and ready to participate in the 21st century.”

— Jack W., Superintendent

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Phonics Blitz Student Workbooks PBSL $26 Student set includes 2 books (25 lessons each) with oral reading passages and student activities.

See order form for a typical intervention setup.

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Phonics Suite™

Phonics Boost™ Phonics Boost features 80 lessons that address the needs of struggling readers in grades 2–12. Just like Phonics Blitz™ (pp. 4–5), the heart of the instruction is phonemic awareness and phonics, but vocabulary, fluency and comprehension also improve.

In grades 2–3, the lessons can be used to address the basic reading skills that students need to succeed with complex text. In grades 4–12, Phonics Boost is used with students with severe decoding weaknesses, who need intensive reading support to overcome their decoding deficits.

Visit reallygreatreading.com/itworks to learn more about how the lessons could work for you.

Quick Facts For RtI, Title I, ELL, and special ed T ier 2 or 3 decoding intervention Improves fluency and comprehension

Phonics Boost Lesson Plans BOOLP $399 Set includes 4 lesson plan books with 20 lessons each, a set of 9 posters, and 2 oral reading Passages Books.

See order form for a typical intervention setup.

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Phonics Boost Student Workbooks BOOSW $45 Set includes 6 books—2 passages books (40 oral reading passages each) and 4 Phonics Boost Student Workbooks (20 lessons each).

For students who require additional practice or easier passages, we recommend Phonics Boost Plus Passages. See p. 9.

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Phonics Suite™

Phonics Boost Skills Assessments PSSA $109.00 Phonics Boost Skills Assessments (PBSAs) are used to measure progress of students receiving Phonics Boost™ instruction. They target the specific skills students should have mastered after completing each set of lessons. The PBSAs, combined with the teachers’ ongoing classroom observations of students’ growth, are a powerful tool for evaluating success and planning future instruction.

The PBSAs consist of 40 separate pre- and post-assessments that systematically measure mastery of the phonemic awareness and phonics concepts taught in Phonics Boost.

Quick Facts Drives efficient instruction Pinpoints specific areas of weakness One book assesses all of your students

Download a sample assessment at reallygreatreading.com/samplelesson

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Phonics Boost Plus™ Phonics Boost Plus is designed for students who are growing with Phonics Boost, but need more practice and repetition to master the concepts.

With Phonics Boost Plus, you can systematically review and reinforce key skills, with multisensory activities and materials that will engage students with significant to severe decoding weaknesses.

See order form for a typical intervention setup.

The instructional modules support key phonics concepts in an age-appropriate manner. Phonics Boost Plus facilitates automatic word recognition and improved literacy skills for students in grades 4–12.

Visit reallygreatreading.com/itworks to learn more about how the lessons could work for you.

Phonics Boost Plus Teacher's Guides PLUSTG $209 Set includes 2 teacher’s guides (20 modules in each), 2 student workbooks, and one passages book with easier passages than contained in Phonics Boost.

Phonics Boost Plus Student Workbooks PLUSSW $19 Set includes 2 student workbooks (20 modules in each).

Phonics Boost Plus Passages PLUSP $10 Includes 40 passages with an easier reading level than Phonics Boost. Integrates perfectly with Phonics Boost instruction.

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Phonics Suite™ Student Manipulatives

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Multisensory to address different learning styles

Used for instruction or intervention Portable and durable

Flexible for use with any Phonics Suite products Works with most phonics-based instruction

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Student Phonics Kit PSK $75 | $65 when purchased in groups of 10 Student manipulatives increase student engagement, appeal to different learning styles, and are necessary for implementing Phonics Suite lessons with fidelity. Lessons are designed so each student has a phonics kit.

Multisensory component of Phonics Suite

The Student Phonics Kit provides explicit, multisensory practice for students who have decoding weaknesses. Students use the magnetic letter tiles and SyllaBoards ™ to practice phonics concepts taught in the lessons.

They use the calculator and colored pencils as they track errors and chart their rate and accuracy during oral reading.

Go to reallygreatreading.com/manipulatives for a detailed list of Student Phonics Kit components.

1. B asic phonics tiles include the alphabet, plus digraphs, trigraphs, and color tiles 2. A dvanced phonics tiles include vowel teams, suffixes, schwa, and extra letters 3. A Halfboard for building words 4. SyllaBoards for reading and spelling longer words

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When teaching Phonics Suite, the teacher has the choice of either physical manipulatives or virtual manipulatives.

Teacher Phonics Kit PBTK $399 Using manipulatives is critical for effectively implementing Phonics Suite.

This kit contains the multisensory materials needed to demonstrate the concepts taught in each lesson. Teachers need this kit or the virtual manipulatives on p. 13 to teach Phonics Blitz ™ and Phonics Boost ™.

• Large Letter Tiles–Box One • L arge Letter Tiles–Box Two • Fluency Timer™ • 5 magnetic SyllaBoards™ • 2 dry erase markers and mini erasers • Magnetic Receptive Halfboard

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Teacher Virtual Manipulatives

Phonics Blitz Online ™ PBOL $95/year This web-based companion to Phonics Blitz (second edition) can be used with an interactive whiteboard, LCD projector, or single computer. This set of virtual manipulatives will engage students of all ages with interactive lessons and reading support.

• Letter tile manipulatives for phonics and spelling • SyllaBoards™ for syllabication • Student workbook pages with answer keys • Virtual posters with audio pronunciation guides • Timed oral reading and chalkboard notes

Letter Tiles Online ™ LTOL $59/year This interactive teaching tool can be used with any phonics program, including Phonics Boost™, to add dimension to your phonics instruction. Letter Tiles Online will engage struggling and beginning readers in grades K–12.

• Letter tile manipulatives for phonics and spelling • SyllaBoards for syllabication

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Multisensory Phonics Tools Large Letter Tiles

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hildren learn better and faster with our letter tiles. We make large tiles for C teachers to model instruction and small tiles for students to participate at their desk. Both Large and Small Letter Tiles have Box One and Box Two. Box One is for basic phonics and Box Two for advanced phonics.

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Large Letter Tiles For the Teacher Demonstrate the basic principles of phonics in whole-class and large group instruction. Letter Tiles enhance any phonics-based instruction.

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Box One CLTB1 $199

Perfect for beginning readers in kindergarten and first grade, and intervention lessons for struggling readers of any age.

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• 152 magnetic letter tiles • Capital and lowercase letters • Digraphs and trigraphs • Suffixes and spelling pattern tiles • Red heart

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Box Two CLTB2 $199 For advanced phonics instruction. Must be used with Box One. Targeted instruction is geared toward students in the second half of first grade, subsequent grades, or struggling readers of any age for phonics or word study.

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Useful in a variety of settings: beginning reading instruction, intervention l e t t e r m t i l e s instruction, tutoring, and learning center activities. Student tiles are designed for individual student use.

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LTB1 $139 Perfect for beginning readers in kindergarten and first grade. Contains enough tiles for use by 8 students.

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Multisensory Phonics Tools

Early Reading Kit KIND $52 Forty magnetic letter tiles, 10 color tiles, and 3 SyllaBoards ™ are included.

The Magnetic Receptive Lapboard is printed with letter tile graphemes.

All boards are dry erase and durable.

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• E arly Reading Board with tiles, Halfboard, marker, and eraser E RBS $42 • Early Reading Board Only KIND-T $14

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Magnetic Color Tiles Set MCOLT $12 For phonemic awareness manipulative activities. The set comes with 10 Magnetic Color Tiles (2 each of 5 colors) and 2 Miniboards.

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Vowel Posters VPOST $12 Set contains 4 vowel posters that illustrate guidewords for short vowels, long vowels, r-controlled vowels, and others.

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Phonics Board SPBS $42 A 10" x 11" magnetic receptive board for students who know their letter names and may be working with additional tiles when they learn about advanced vowel patterns.

• 41 magnetic tiles, SyllaBoards™, Halfboard, marker, and eraser • Phonics Board Only WBS-T $14

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Blank Magnetic Dry Erase Boards Single-sided whiteboards for use with magnetic letter and color tiles. All the whiteboards come with classroom-safe, curved corners, and a durable writing surface.

We offer magnetic whiteboards in 3 sizes and styles: • 9" x 11" Lapboard WBS $7.50 • 5.5" x 11" Halfboard HALF-T $5 • 2" x 11" Miniboard WBS2X11 $2.50

Phonics FlipCards FLIP $5

Mini Erasers ERASER $12

Teachers and students flip the cards to create and read real and nonsense words.

Each pack contains 12 erasers.

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SyllaBoards ™ These single-sided, dry erase boards are the size of index cards and help students break words into chunks for reading and spelling. They can be used in place of a whiteboard for classroom activities.

Magnetic SyllaBoard Kit SYBSM $12 Often used to model instruction in front of classroom, the Magnetic SyllaBoard Kit comes with 5 magnetic SyllaBoards, 1 dry erase marker, and 1 eraser.

SyllaBoard Kit SBK $9 Includes 5 SyllaBoards, 1 dry erase marker, and 1 eraser.

SyllaBoard Set SYBS $7 Includes 5 SyllaBoards.

F luency Timer ™ TIME $12.50 Comes with 3 different alarm settings: light-up, vibrate, and chime. Automatically reset your time with one push of a button to start your next measure quickly. The Fluency Timer also counts up for scoring ISF.

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Resources

Free Online Resources Diagnostic Decoding Surveys (DDS) reallygreatreading.com/dds Request a complimentary Diagnostic Decoding Survey to start detecting difficulties and pinpointing weaknesses.

Pre-Decoding Surveys reallygreatreading.com/pds Use the complimentary Pre-Decoding Surveys with students in kindergarten and first grade to assess pre-reading skills. These surveys assess phonemic and phonological awareness, and letter names and sounds.

Advanced Decoding Survey Plus (ADS Plus) reallygreatreading.com/adsplus The ADS Plus assesses more advanced phonics skills, such as multi-syllable words or words with advanced vowels. The survey refines understanding from the DDS and is complimentary to all educators.

Sample Lessons reallygreatreading.com/samplelesson Download free sample lessons of Phonics Blitz ™, Phonics Boost ™, and Phonics Boost Plus ™.

Research reallygreatreading.com/research Read white papers, case studies, and research behind Really Great Reading®.

Webinars reallygreatreading.com/webinars Learn about Really Great Reading's most popular solutions without leaving your desk.

Videos reallygreatreading.com/videos Watch our online series of videos featuring experts demonstrating activities and manipulatives.

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Professional Development Really Great Reading ® provides many professional development options to get the background knowledge needed to successfully diagnose, group, and teach struggling readers.

Workshops We offer two types of workshops: a one-day phonics intervention overview and a two-day comprehensive training. These workshops prepare attendees to teach either Phonics Blitz ™ or Phonics Boost ™. Register online to attend one of our scheduled workshops, or contact us to customize a workshop for your school or district.

1-Day Phonics Suite Training This workshop is for teachers who already have a background knowledge of teaching phonics and phonics-based intervention.

2-Day Phonics Suite Comprehensive Training This comprehensive workshop is for teachers who aren’t yet comfortable teaching phonemic awareness and need a refresher on key phonics concepts.

Products included with registration: A $225 value • 1 lesson plans book and 1 student workbook from Phonics Suite: Your choice of Phonics Blitz or Phonics Boost • Decoding assessments and access to grouping software • Student Phonics Kit • Vowel Poster Set

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2 magnetic receptive whiteboards 5 magnetic receptive SyllaBoards™ 101 magnetic small letter tiles 5 magnetic colored tiles 1 dry erase marker and 1 small eraser 2 colored pencils 1 pencil sharpener 1 calculator

Diagnostic DecoDing surveys Beginning Decoding Survey Advanced Decoding Survey

More than 20 years of scientific, evidence-based reading research makes clear that all good readers must master certain basic skills. Those skills include the ability to decode words accurately – a skill that most struggling readers have difficulty with. This complimentary set of Diagnostic Decoding Surveys includes two informal diagnostic tools designed to quickly pinpoint decoding weaknesses in students of almost any age.

The Diagnostic Decoding Surveys enable one-on-one assessment of phonics skills for struggling readers from the middle of first grade through adulthood. The surveys are efficient and easy to administer. For students with decoding weaknesses, the surveys can be used to identify which skills have already been mastered and which are weak.

This complimentary packet contains everything you’ll need for initial assessment of an unlimited number of students. The packet also provides an explanation of how the survey results can be used to group students, and it offers guidance on how to plan effective, efficient instruction. www.reallygreatreading.com P.O. Box 46 • Cabin John, MD 20818-0046 Toll Free 866.401.7323 • Fax 240.465.0478

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Phonics Intervention Workshops Join one of our powerful, hands-on workshops and leave with: • An understanding of why students struggle with decoding and the impact it has on comprehension • The tools and background knowledge you need to effectively diagnose students needing decoding intervention • Resources you need to group students for instruction and match them with the lessons that will yield the greatest improvements • Lessons and teaching strategies to provide effective, grade-appropriate decoding instruction in grades 2–12 • Progress monitoring tools to measure growth and adjust as needed • Strategies to use teacher and student manipulatives to engage and boost student achievement

Fee: • 1-Day: $149 (This workshop is for teachers who already have a background knowledge of teaching phonics and phonics-based intervention.)

• 2-Day: $249 (This workshop is for teachers who are not yet comfortable teaching phonemic awareness and need a refresher on phonics concepts.)

Visit reallygreatreading.com/workshops to find a workshop near you, a detailed outline, a list of free materials, and to register.

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Do your Tier 2 and 3 students need additional practice?

Phonics Boost Plus™ offers engaging activities to support key phonics concepts.

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