DECODABLE READER

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Decodable Reader

How to Use the Decodable Reader

The

SRA FLEX Literacy

Decodable Reader

is available to provide additional practice

for students who may need extra support as they work through the Beginning Reader

lessons. Use the

Decodable Reader

to give students practice in the decoding skills

they have been taught in The Digital Experience. The selections allow students to

apply grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills to decode words within text.

Students can access decodable text selections (two selections for each sound/

sound spelling introduced in the program) after completing the appropriate Mastery

Check, beginning with Mastery Check 1 and continuing, every five lessons thereafter,

through Mastery Check 16. For example, after Mastery Check 1, students can access

Decodable Reader selections 1–10. After Mastery Check 2, students can access

decodable text selections 11–20 while reviewing selections 1–10 (as time permits).

Teachers administer decodable text instruction on Days 1, 4, and 5 of The Print

Experience during differentiated instruction time. Students can read these decodable

text selections one-on-one with a teacher or another adult, such as an instructional

aide; partnered with a higher-level student; or independently—depending on the

availability of classroom support and the individual student’s need. As an alternative

to individual reading, students may read in small groups with peers at their skill level.

Students may read the decodable text selections chorally or in a “popcorn” fashion,

with individuals reading specific pages/phrases/sentences when called on.

Select the appropriate decodable text, based on student progress in The Digital

Experience, and support students as needed as they read each selection to ensure

they achieve mastery in the following areas:

• Know the spelling-sound correspondences for common consonant digraphs

• Decode regularly spelled one-syllable words

• Know final

-e

and common vowel team conventions for representing long vowel sounds

• Use knowledge that every syllable must have a vowel sound to determine the number of

syllables in a printed word

• Decode two-syllable words following basic patterns by breaking the words into syllables

• Read words with inflectional endings

• Recognize and read grade-appropriate irregularly spelled words

• Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words

• Know spelling-sound correspondences for additional common vowel teams

• Decode regularly spelled two-syllable words with long vowels

• Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes