Picking up the phonics instruction where Reader Rabbit® Learn to Read with Phonics leaves off, the all-new Reader Rabbit Reading Builder for Schools introduces students to blends, digraphs, additional vowel sounds, and spelling patterns in a systematic and progressive way, within an engaging story context.
Reading Builder utilizes a research-based, balanced approach to literacy instruction as students practice and apply their phonemic knowledge to a wide variety of decodable texts and authentic literature, from comic strips to a chapter book. Students' reading comprehension is then "tested" through fun mini-activities at the end of each text passage that encourage them to respond to literature, relate reading to their own experiences, make predictions, and read for a purpose.
**Features:***
Explicit, systematic instruction in phonics, with story reading, skill-building games, and writing activities
A variety of texts to address multiple learning styles and interests: newspaper article, comic strips, poems, journal entries, and a chapter book
Enhanced Educator Version (EEV) includes whole class progress reporting, assessment tests, additional "think-about-this" text comprehension questions, and printable skill-practice activities
Two ways to play: practice specific skills or learn through a captivating adventure
Record and playback
Learning Opportunities:
Develops core reading skills in phonics, spelling, rhyming, reading comprehension, and writing
Provides practice with identifying beginning and ending consonant blends, digraphs, long and short vowel sounds, word families, vowel combinations, compound words, syllables, prefixes, contractions, and suffixes
Builds vocabulary
Helps meet Reading First mandate for reading proficiency by third grade