Ready for Liftoff: Launch into Foundational Skills While Prioritizing Student Engagement!
About Phonics Launch
Each Phonics Launch set includes easy-to-follow lesson plans that pair with high-quality decodable books—so teachers can deliver explicit, engaging instruction with confidence.
Choose the set that meets your students where they are:
- Pre-Launch—Introduces letter names, letter-sound correspondences, letter formation, and concepts of print.
- Ready, Set, Go!—For students just beginning to learn letter sounds and blending simple CVC words.
- On Our Way—Focuses on short vowels, blends, and digraphs to build decoding confidence.
- Building Up—Introduces long vowel patterns and more complex phonics structures.
- Moving On—Expands knowledge of vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, and multisyllabic words.
- Lifting Off—Reinforces phonics through more advanced patterns while strengthening fluency and comprehension.
No matter where your students are on their reading journey, Phonics Launch gives you the tools to take them further—step by step.
Captivating Decodable Phonics Storybooks
- Includes a collection of beautifully illustrated decodable readers that follow a scope and sequence, while also capturing the interest of young readers!
- The Phonics Storybooks are carefully written so that previously taught and newly acquired phonic elements are at the forefront.
Daily Paired Phonemic Awareness And Phonics Activities
- Mini-lessons include a systematic and highly sequential progression of phonemic awareness activities.
- Multimodal phonics instruction supports students in building flexibility and strong decoding and encoding skills.
Immediate Transfer Of Phonemic Awareness/Phonics To Reading And Writing
- Decoding and encoding practice throughout the lesson encourages students to become flexible word solvers while reading and writing.
- Interactive or guided writing is built into each lesson.
- Dictated sentences that have been strategically crafted to ensure practice of phonic elements are included in every lesson.
Flexible Lessons
- Lessons fill gaps in phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency.
- Phonic instruction supplements where students need additional instruction along the phonics continuum.
- The program masterfully supports differentiated instruction in a small-group setting and can be easily adapted to whole-group instruction.
Differentiated Instruction
- A built-in phonics survey helps determine individual needs and a starting place within the lessons.
- Individual progress monitoring is ongoing throughout the lesson framework.
- Suggested corrective feedback is offered to scaffold differentiation.
PHONICS LAUNCH IN ACTION
