Phonics for Reading, authored by Anita Archer, James Flood, Diane Lapp, and Linda Lungren,  provides an intervention for students who struggle with reading comprehension from weak phonemic awareness and decoding skills and supports:

·      Building phonemic awareness, decoding, and fluency skills to strengthen reading comprehension

·      Providing systematic, explicit instruction builds confidence and motivation

·      Specifically designed lessons to appeal to older students

Placement assessments provide guidance in matching students to their instructional needs supported by three levels:

• First Level—30 teacher-directed lessons— focuses on short vowels, consonants, consonant blends, and digraphs
• Second Level—32 teacher-directed lessons— progresses with vowel combinations, r-controlled vowel sounds, common endings, and CVCe words
• Third Level - 36 teacher-directed lessons - expands concepts with vowel/letter combinations, common prefixes and suffixes, minor consonant sounds for c and g, and minor vowel sound combinations

Materials:  Training packet/handout will be provided by ESU 9

Phonics for Reading (2011) Materials:  Districts can order PFR intervention Teacher Guides and Student Books at: http://www.curriculumassociates.com/products/detail.aspx?title=PhonicsReading#additional_nav