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6-Step Lesson Plan for Decoding, Spelling, and Fluency

Description:

In this Knowledge Block, participants will learn how to plan and implement engaging, evidence-aligned, 6-Step lessons to teach the phonemic and phonic skills necessary for efficient decoding, spelling, and fluency. You will receive a collection of practical resources and ideas for using the TRL 6-Step approach in face-to-face and virtual instruction.

Who should take this Knowledge Block:

  • K-5 educators and administrators
  • Secondary educators who work with long-term developing readers
  • Note: We strongly recommend taking both the Phonological Awareness and Phonic Knowledge, Knowledge Blocks prior to this 6-Step plan, but it is not required.

What you will learn:

  • The key features of effective instruction for word recognition
  • How to use data from phonological awareness and phonic knowledge diagnostic assessments to inform instruction
  • An evidence-aligned 6-Step structure to teach phonemic and phonics skills

Materials provided:

  • 6-Step Lesson Plan blank template
  • Sample 6-Step Lesson Plan
  • 6-Step Lesson Plan Guidance Document
  • Directions for how to make a soundboard and grapheme cards
  • Suggested Keywords document for sound-symbol correspondences
  • Printable grapheme cards for a soundboard
  • Link to TRL Decodable Text Sources (series that are available for purchase)
  • Virtual Soundboard
  • Virtual Manipulatives
  • PDF of all slides in handout form

Certifications:

  • Certificate of Completion

6-Step Lesson Plan for Decoding, Spelling, and Fluency

$200.00

Participants will learn how to plan and implement engaging, evidence-aligned, 6-Step lessons to teach the phonemic and phonic skills necessary for efficient decoding, spelling, and fluency.

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