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Building Blocks Phonics

Greenville, South Carolina, United States • 0 Employees
Management Consulting

Building Blocks Phonics is a complete, explicit, systematic, supplemental phonics curriculum that teaches all 44 sounds of English. The scope and sequence are laid out so that each module builds on the previous module, supporting every new phonetic concept introduced and never asking students to make a leap that they are not prepared to make.In addition to the explicit scope and sequence, we give the why behind the how. We have found that this additional information supplies students with a greater understanding of decoding. Because we initially rely upon the synthetic approach of individual letter sounds, students have a rich phonemic awareness, blending and decoding ability that exceeds other students not taught with BBP. Because we can be sure that students have a strong foundation of individual sounds, BBP changes focus to a more analytic approach asking students to apply what they learned in order to decode and read words fluently. As fluency and automaticity build students ability to comprehend increases. When you follow BBP scope and sequence you are addressing three of the five essential components of reading instruction:phonemic awarenessphonicsvocabularyWith these three components addressed, fluency and comprehension are initiated. Students make the mental shift from learning to read to reading to learn.