The Power of Three has been enthusiastically used by many teachers in Volusia County, and other areas of Florida, for more than ten years, in the form of workshop materials. This STRIPSS component is scheduled to be published in July.
The Power of Three, Multisensory Phonics was written to accommodate the secondary student who is still weak in the basic development of phonics. Using strategies that employ the three modalities, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic, Power of Three covers the full phonic scope:
- -phonemic awareness,
- -consonant blends and digraphs,
- -long and short vowels,
- -r-controlled vowels,
- -vowel digraphs and diphthongs,
- -the schwa sound,
- -the three sounds of suffix ed.
By controlling the word list and paragraph vocabulary, program includes lessons on two levels for the r-controlled vowels, vowel digraphs, and vowel diphthongs.
Varied lesson approaches and materials are included for both whole-class and small-group or individual lessons.
The Power of Three Teacher's Guide contains lesson plans and scripted lessons. CD is included for PowerPoint of whole-class lessons and for reproduction of student materials.
Five Bridges to Higher Words, Syllable Power
Five Bridges, the main component of STRIPSS, uses syllabication as a decoding intervention. Experience shows that about eighty percent of students struggling with word decoding at the secondary level know their phonics but cannot use it because they perceive multisyllabic words as strings of letters. Along with the five rules for breaking words into syllables, the basic phonic and morphemic elements are developed from fundamental level to application at high school level in multisyllabic words.
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High Powered Phonics, which is used with students who have completed Five Bridges to Higher Words, uses the decoding strategy of structural analysis to develop word decoding from middle school to college level. HP Phonics fosters the application of the five syllable rules with the visual patterning of multiple prefixes and suffixes.
Click for MoreFlash Power, Photographic Phonics
Flash Power uses flashcard strategies, in the teacher's choice of PowerPoint presentations or flashcards, to further develop the visual-auditory aspects of long and short vowels, final e, the open-closed syllable, and hard-soft c and g, for secondary students still weak in the basic development of phonics. Flash Power is especially applicable to the cooperative-group game format.
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Through our workshops and presentations at reading conferences, these materials have been successfully and enthusiastically used by teachers in Volusia County, and other areas of Florida, for more than ten years. The Howard Reading Service was established in 2007 as a vehicle for sharing our work more widely.
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Contact us for information on:
- -Workshops for Teachers
- -Modeling of Lessons Right in Your Classroom
- -Questions, Comments
- Requests for Assistance in:
- 1. Tailoring Lessons to Your Students and Class Schedule
- 2. Modifying Lessons for Your Students
- 3. Additional Scaffolding Strategies
- 4. Additional Multisensory Strategies
- 5. Additional Reinforcement Lessons
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