Ready for Liftoff: Launch into Foundational Skills While Prioritizing Student Engagement!
About Phonics Launch
Each Phonics Launch set includes easy-to-follow, evidence-based lesson plans that pair with high-quality decodable books—so teachers can deliver explicit, engaging instruction with confidence. The program meets ESSA Level 2 (Moderate Evidence) criteria, ensuring districts can rely on research-backed effectiveness to support improved student outcomes.

Choose the set that meets your students where they are:

  • Pre-Launch Alphabetic—Introduces letter names, letter-sound correspondences, letter formation, and concepts of print
  • Ready, Set, GoFor students just beginning to learn letter sounds and blending simple CVC words
  • On Our WayFocuses on short vowels, blends, and digraphs to build decoding confidence
  • Building UpIntroduces long vowel patterns and more complex phonics structures
  • Moving OnExpands knowledge of vowel teams, vowel-r combinations, and multisyllabic words
  • Lifting OffReinforces phonics through more advanced patterns while strengthening fluency and comprehension
  • OrbitingAge-appropriate decodable texts designed for upper-grade students needing practice with high-utility phonics skills

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

  • Evidence-based 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.

Advanced Decodables for Grade-Level Students

  • High-interest decodable readers feature complex text perfect for older students who need a bit more practice at specific skills.
  • Engaging and age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction topics ensure students enjoy what they’re reading as they gain mastery over phonic elements.
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