95 Phonics Core ProgramTM
Now you can add phonics to your existing curriculum.
Introducing our new phonics program for Kindergarten to Grade 3. It's designed to:
- Help you address and prevent reading gaps where the core instruction is not meeting students' needs
- Add a systematic and explicit phonics strand in 20 minutes per day, within your existing ELA curriculum
- Enable student mastery of critical early literacy skills
- Add a foundational word-level reading boost to improve comprehension
- Reduce the number of students who need intervention instruction
- Provide easy-to-follow teacher-guided routines that are rigorous but engaging, including hands-on student practice
- Align with research on the Science of Reading
- Answer our clients' most popular request – to give you a way to use our methodologies to teach phonics to the whole class
- Accommodate both in-person and remote learning
Each grade-level (K-3) Classroom Kit includes:
- Student Workbooks: For in-class practice or to send home in case of school closures
- Manipulatives: Individual sets of phonics chips for hands-on sound-spelling mapping
- Digital Presentation: Allows for both in-person and remote teaching
- Teacher's Edition: Easy-to-follow lesson plans with scripts
- Sound-spelling cards: Set of grade-appropriate cards
95 Phonics Core Program is aligned with research and 95 Percent Group’s proven approach. The comprehensive instructional materials offer flexibility for continuity of learning whether students are gaining skills at home or at school.
The program includes these components:
- Letter-sound correspondence
- Letter formation instruction and practice in Kindergarten
- Suggestions for developing print concepts to explicit instruction in blending CVC words in K and grade 1
- Phonics patterns demonstrated and practiced hands-on with phonics chips
- Phoneme-grapheme mapping including phonemic awareness
- High frequency word practice
- Writing words, word chains, sentences, and short responses to passage reading
- Word and phrase fluency practice
- Weekly spelling lesson lists designed to reinforce the focus pattern, review previous patterns, and assess mastery of high frequency words
- Practice applying phonics knowledge to read decodable text
- Instruction in morphological units including common prefixes, suffixes, and Latin roots
- Instruction and practice in the use of comprehension processes through oral discussions and written responses after reading decodable texts
- End-of-unit assessments for monitoring progress
Please download our sample lesson on the right side of this page. To request additional information, please contact your local 95 Percent Group representative or email sales@95percentgroup.com.