LESSON STEPS: MULTI-SENSORY LESSONS - STEP 5: Word blending storybooks
The Multi-Sensory Lessons Begin
Step 5: Word Blending Storybooks
How important is it to learn to read more than just lists of words learned in phonics lessons or vocabulary lists of unrelated words? VERY IMPORTANT!
In order to apply word identification skills in a meaningful context, you can make up your own sentences using the lesson words. Ready Reading includes short storybooks with sentences that specifically utilize words in the current phonics lesson.
The first storybook is introduced in Lesson 7, with phonics skills from Lessons 1 to 6. Thereafter, each lesson includes its own storybook to go with the specific phonics skill learned. This helps students gain confidence and fluency in reading right away. It makes them proud of themselves!
The Ready Reading Storybooks can be duplicated to make individual student copies of either a 4-page or 8-page book. Activities can vary for use of the books and suggestions for these will be introduced at another time.
One finding in my own classroom, where I placed enlarged copies of the Ready Reading Storybooks on the bookshelves with library books, was that students would choose them for their independent reading time because they enjoyed being able to read something by themselves in the early stages of learning to read.
AND there’s more! Next time, we will see how we follow the storybooks to give students even more practice in reading and thinking.