Activities for All Grade Levels:

Learning to Read with Children’s Books

Students can improve their reading ability by using children’s books. Activities include introducing the story to the reader in order to improve comprehension, adding slash marks between phrases and sentences, reading slowly, reading at a normal pace, having the reader read aloud, imitative reading, timed reading, repetition of prior reading, and reading with expression.

Enjoying Summer Reading with Struggling Readers

Part 1: Struggling readers learn how to read their favorite books on their own . . . and enjoy it. By following a four-step method, students increase their fluency and comprehension.

Part 2: Timed Rapid Reading: Through selections of 50- to 100-word excerpts, students increase their reading speed. Reading speed charts and guidelines are provided.

Part 3: Reading in Phrases: Students improve their reading fluency by learning to read in phrases, as opposed to word by word. Through various excerpts, students learn to read and comprehend through phrase-cued reading and reading with expression.

The Map Skills Activity

Students learn to read a map, name streets, follow directions, understand topography, estimate distances, and more with this map activity booklet. Comprehension and reading ability are reinforced as students answer questions about each successive map. Recommended for all reading grade levels.

Phonics Instruction for Reading Levels Grade 1 and Up

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Phonics, Part 1

Phonics instruction helps the reader by providing an important and useful way to figure out unfamiliar words while reading. Recommended for grades 1+.

Phonics, Part 2

Phonics instruction helps the reader by providing an important and useful way to figure out unfamiliar words while reading. Recommended for grades 1+.

Phonics for Readers who Learn a Different Way

Phonics instruction helps struggling readers learn to read and spell through phonics and with activities tailored for different learning styles. Recommended for reading level grade 2+.

Instruction for Reading Levels Grade 2 and Up

Reading Fluency

Readers who read letter by letter or word for word, have delays in cadence and rhythm, experience difficulty blending sounds, need a sense of the whole story before reading, or have strong verbal skills but a weak written language can increase their fluency by working with phrased-cued reading, repeated reading, timed reading, and reading with expression. Repetition and exposure to patterns helps students to eventually recognize words in print in any context. Two separate books are available: grades 1 and 2 and grades 3 and 4. Recommended for reading grade levels 2+.

Reading and Spelling Multisyllable Words

Struggling readers who have trouble with multisyllable words learn increase reading fluency and comprehension through patterns, rhyming words, ending patterns, and syllables. Various activities practice exercises are provided. Recommended for reading levels grade 3+.

Spelling by Word Parts

Improving Reading and Spelling Skills in Science

Students improve their reading and spelling kids, as well as their general reading skills, in the context of science words and phrases. Students work with word endings and perform a variety of activities such as writing the words according to their patterns, practicing sorting words, timed reading, and writing definitions. Students improve their reading and spelling kids, as well as their general reading skills, in the context of science words and phrases. Students work with word endings and perform a variety of activities such as writing the words according to their patterns, practicing sorting words, timed reading, and writing definitions. Recommended for reading levels grade 3+.

Using Brain Research to Improve Reading

Research has shown that patterns and rhyming words help children learn to read. This lesson provides US History words that follow a pattern and/or rhyme to facilitate reading fluency and comprehension. Recommended for reading levels grade 4+.

Attack Posters

Students may review the various components of each of the preceding lessons through activity sheets.

Instruction for Reading Levels Grade 6 and Up

Reading the News

Students can improve their reading and spelling abilities through the real-life skill of reading a newspaper. The learning strategies consist of timed reading, repeated reading, vocabulary, and comprehension. Workbooks and audio are provided to reinforce the strategies and help students improve their reading ability. Twelve separate workbooks are provided. Recommended for reading levels grade 6+.

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Pathway Learning

The following units utilize the materials used throughout this course in a particular sequence to help a specific learning type.

Reading Lab – Analytic Learners

Students who read from the parts to the whole and do well with phonics may follow this track to improve reading skills. Sixteen lessons provide an overview of phonics, including beginning and ending consonants, short vowel and long vowel sounds, the silent /e/, consonant digraphs, and beginning and ending consonant blends. Workbooks and audio are provided.

Reading Lab – Global Learners

Students who struggle with reading and/or those who are dyslexic can improve their reading fluency by following a path that moves from the whole to the parts. Various news stories are presented and then broken down into parts so the student can comprehend what is being read without the struggle of sounding out words. Workbooks and audio are provided.

Middle and High School Struggling Readers

Students in middle school and high school learn to decode, read fluently, and interpret complex words and technical information by following a path that focuses on each of these areas in the context of science, the news, and prefixes. Workbooks and audio are provided.

To read the complete textbooks by Dr. Matthew Glavach, please click here. These titles include Big Words Made Easy, 88 Word Sort Patterns, Learning to Read a Different Way, Quick Reading Intervention, and Success in Academic Content Classes.