High Powered Phonics, Word Structure uses the decoding strategy of structural analysis to develop word decoding from middle school to college level, fostering the application of the five syllable rules with the visual patterning of multiple affixes. It is essential that Five Bridges to Higher Words be completed prior to High Powered Phonics.

The lessons are built around eleven suffixes, plus the phonic element of ci sounded as /sh/.  As the words progress within each suffix unit, common prefixes are repeated and the target suffixes are combined with additional suffixes, developing the students' visual recognition of word parts within the structure of increasingly complex multisyllabic words.

HP Phonics builds fluency by developing automaticity in students' recall of the phonemic patterns during repeated and varied presentations of the morpheme patterns. Fluent blending of the syllables within the multisyllabic words is developed by training students in the chunking strategy.

Within each lesson, the words are presented in a word list, then in phrases, and then in paragraphs.  Thus visual recognition and fluency are developed to the level of the contextual reading process, in which word affixes and roots must be recognized within multiple lines of text.  In order to further foster the students' application of the word analysis decoding strategy, the paragraphs include words that contain the target suffix pattern but were not presented in the word list.

Within each suffix unit, lessons are written on two levels:  middle school to high school level and high school to college level.  Range for more and less able students is addressed.  Teachers move their students through both levels or choose to utilize one level in a given suffix unit.

There are 18 lessons on each level.  Depending upon class focus or interest span, whole or half periods can be devoted to each lesson.  Students enjoy the challenge to build to the fluent reading of these words, phrases, and paragraphs.  Reinforcement and application are patterned by the individual teacher.

The glossary contains the Latin and Greek derivations of the prefixes and roots, as well as the word meanings for these high school and college level words.

HP Phonics comes as a Teacher's Guide with a CD of PowerPoint presentations. Transparencies are available.