Phonics Plug-In TWO

Phonics Plug-In

Readsters’ Phonics Plug-In series teaches beginning and struggling readers to decode well.

Phonics Plug-In TWO

Phonics Plug-In TWO is the second set of lessons in a planned 6 set series delivering a full scope and sequence of phonics instruction. Click here for an outline of each set in the series.

Phonics Plug-In TWO continues the explicit, systematic, multisensory, small group phonics instruction for beginning readers and for older struggling readers started in Phonics Plug-In ONE.

Will Phonics Plug-In TWO Help Your Students?

Students should successfully complete all the Phonics Plug-In ONE lessons before starting Phonics Plug-In TWO.

Click here to download the Qualifying Assessments.

Instruction and Practice

Each of the 10 Units includes intensive instruction and practice for:

Phonemic Awareness – blending, segmenting, and manipulating 2–4 sound words with short, long, r-controlled, and ‘other’ vowel sounds.
Phonics – reading and spelling 1- and 2-syllable words with short vowels, blends, trigraphs tch and dge, suffixes: -s, -es, -ing, -er, -est, schwa, and ‘chunks’: all, ing, ink.
High Frequency Words – reading and spelling 46 high frequency words from the Dolce and Fry 300 word lists.
Accuracy and Rate – reading and spelling 1- and 2- syllable words in lists, sentences, and passages.

The lessons also include less intensive instruction and practice for:

Fluency – students read words, sentences, and passages until they read with accuracy and reasonable rate and expression.
Vocabulary – vocabulary words are introduced with student-friendly definitions and are included several times in the sentences, and passages.
Comprehension – students find and underline the answers to questions about the passages they read at the end of each unit.
Spelling – students learn to spell high frequency and decodable words they can read.

Each of the 10 Units has up to 20 Parts that ensure students get extensive individual practice. Part 20 is a Unit Check-Up to determine if students are ready to move to the next unit or need more practice first.

Target Students

Kindergarten and Early First Grade
In Phonics Plug-In TWO lessons, beginning readers in kindergarten and first grade continue to develop and cement the habit of accurate decoding at a reasonable rate as they learn to read.

Struggling Readers
The lessons continue to help struggling readers in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades who have not adequately mastered basic decoding skills during core instruction. The lessons continue to give these students the explicit, systematic instruction, along with ample practice, that they may not have had in core instruction. Phonics Plug-In Two ids also appropriate for some students in higher grades who have severe decoding weaknesses.

Small Group Instruction

As with Phonics Plug-In ONE, the Phonics Plug-In TWO Units are for small instruction. Ideally, the small groups will be no more 4 students. However, the materials include practice for up to 8 students in a group.

Practice to Mastery

Each of the 10 Units has up to 20 Parts that ensure students get extensive individual practice. Students immediately re-read the word list, sentence, or passage section if they make a mistake. This means students always finish by reading with 100% accuracy and are developing the habit of accurate reading.

Click here for a list of the 20 Parts.

Scripted Lesson Plans

With scripted lesson plans, teachers know exactly how to deliver the lessons. Phonics Plug-In TWO scripts and repeated routines are easy to follow. They ensure that lessons are delivered with maximum student involvement, while minimizing unnecessary teacher talk. The scripted lessons also make certain that lesson delivery is explicit, thorough, and systematic, and that teachers include modeling (I DO), structured practice (We Do), and individual practice (You Do) for each skill taught.

The lesson plans are complete so teachers do not have to create materials or lesson plans. Each session starts wherever the group stopped in the Unit at the end of the previous session

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Scope and Sequence – More of the Critical Foundational Skills

Phonics Plug-In TWO instruction continues to give students the critical foundational skills to be accurate and fluent readers.

The lessons teach students to read 1- and 2-syllable words with short vowels, digraphs, trigraphs tch and dge; suffixes -s, -es, -ing, -er, -est; blends; schwa; and chunks all, ing, ink in lists sentences, and passages.

The phonemic awareness parts teach students to identify and label r-controlled vowel sounds /er/, /or/, /ar/ and ‘other’ vowel sounds /ou/, /oi/, /ōō/, /ŏŏ/ in 2–4 sound spoken words.

Students also learn to spell and read 46 high frequency words.

Click here for detailed Scope and Sequence.

Explicit, Systematic, Sequential, & Multi-Sensory Instruction

Phonics Plug-In TWO instruction is systematic, explicit, sequential, and multi-sensory. Students practice spelling with colored tiles and letter tiles so they see, feel, and say the relationships between sounds and letters. Students read only decodable words (words spelled with phonics patterns previously taught) and high frequency words that have been explicitly taught. That means students have the ability to self-correct any mistakes they make (sometimes with guidance from the teacher) so they become self-reliant readers..

Progress Monitoring

Part 20 in each unit is a Unit Check-Up administered individually to each student to determine if the student is ready to move to the next Unit. A Group Tracking Chart is included in the Teacher Practice Book to provide a snapshot of the group’s progress.

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete Phonics Plug-In ONE and TWO units will be able to:

Accurately read, at a reasonable rate 1- and 2-syllable short vowel words with dighraphs; trigraphs tch and dge; suffixes -s, -es, -ing, -er, -est; blends; schwa; and chunks all, ing, ink in lists, sentences, and passages.
Accurately read 46 high frequency words from the Dolce and Fry 300 word lists.
Give the sound and label (e.g., r-controlled, other) for 3 r-controlled and 4 ‘other’ vowel sounds and identify those sounds in a spoken word.
Blend, segment, and substitute phonemes in 2–4 sound words with short and long vowel sounds, 3 r-controlled vowel sounds, and 4 ‘other’ vowel sounds.

Ordering Guide

Click on book title for more details.
Teacher:
PP-2_TeacherNeeds Each teacher will need:

1 Lesson Plan Set$260.00
Lesson Plan Books 1 and 2, and
Teacher Practice Books with
Unit Check-Up Student Pages

1 Basic Letter Tile Set $38.00

Student:
Each student will need:

1 Student Practice Book$40.00
The students write in their Student Practice Books so they cannot be shared.

1 Basic Letter Tile Set $38.00
Tile Sets can be shared across groups not meeting at the same time.

Optional:

Additional Teacher Practice Books

PP-2_TB&UCh-Up We recommend for each additional group being taught:
1 Teacher Practice Book per group. $60.00
The teacher writes in the Teacher Practice Book when modeling, records student performance during practice, and scores the Part 20 Unit Check-Ups in the book, so one most convenient for a teacher to have a different Teacher Practice Book for each group.

Vowel Sound Posters: Available in 2 Formats

Vowel Sound Poster
Vowel Sound Charts on 1 Poster
All 4 vowel sound category charts on one full-color, 17” x 22” poster: short, long, r-controlled and other vowel sounds.
Poster ships flat, folded to 8.5” x 11”.$6.00

Vowel Sound Charts on 4 Posters
Each of the 4 vowel sound category charts on a separate, full color, 12.75” x 16.5” poster in a set of four.
Posters ship flat, folded to 8.5” x 11”.$10.00

The Phonics Plug-In Series

Beginning Phonics: Phonics Plug-In ONE, TWO, and THREE.
Students learn to accurately decode one-, two-, and three-syllable words with short vowels and schwa. Students also learn to read and spell irregularly spelled high frequency words from the Dolch 220 list.

Advanced Phonics: Phonics Plug-In FOUR, FIVE, and SIX
Student learn to accurately decode single- and multi-syllable words with the complex vowel spellings for r-controlled vowels, long vowels, and other vowels and words with suffixes.

Click to scroll to: Phonics Plug-In: One Two Three Four Five Six

Phonics Plug-In ONE (available now)

high frequency words:

36 irregularly spelled words
47 decodable words

phonological and phonemic awareness:

count, blend, and segment syllables
difference between syllables and sounds
identify first and last syllable and first and last sound
segment and blend sounds with 2–4 sound words
identify first and last sounds
identify and label short and long vowel sounds
sound chains with 3-sound words: substitution

phonics:

real and nonsense 1-syllable words with short vowels
digraphs: ch, ch, sh, th, wh
2-syllable words with short vowels – no schwa
f, l, s doubled at end of words
3 spellings for /k/
2 spellings for /w/