Components of the Program

Up-Words Reading® is an early literacy program comprised of 4 levels.

 

Level 0LEVEL 0  - Designed for the first-time reader with alphabet familiarity.

  • Establishes a strong foundation of the alphabetic principle, letter-sound correspondence for all consonant letters, short vowel sounds and consonant digraphs. 
  • Teaches students to rely on their ability to decode and encode words phonetically to read and spell through effective multi-sensory activities and engaging decodable readers.
  • Teaches sight recognition for reading and spelling over 40 necessary non-phonetic sight words.  
  • Establishes a love of reading.
  • Strengthens the student's foundation in listening comprehension.
  • Teaches phonological awareness skills necessary for strong reading skills.  

 

Level 1LEVEL 1  – Designed for the student with a mastery of single syllable, short vowel words.

  • Teaches students to master the phonics concepts of consonant blends, basic spelling rules, and the most common long vowel sounds and spellings through effective multi-sensory activities and engaging decodable readers.
  • Establishes a foundation in syllabication for analyzing, reading and spelling multi-syllabic words. 
  • Introduces the most common suffixes and the concept of root words and suffixes.
  • Continues multi-sensory instruction for reading and spelling over 70 more non-phonetic sight words.
  • Continues to reinforce the student's love of reading while strengthening foundational expressive and receptive language skills through Language and Literature activities.

 

Level 2LEVEL 2 – Designed to complete single syllable rule patterns while introducing multi-syllable patterns. 

  • Trains students to rely on their understanding of syllabication to decode multi-syllabic words.
  • Teaches multiple spellings of long vowel sounds as well as vowel diphthongs to read and spell phonetic words.
  • Continues multi-sensory instruction for reading and spelling many non-phonetic sight words.
  • Builds a foundation of morphology for reading and spelling words with prefixes and suffixes, along with common spelling generalizations.
  • Continues to reinforce the student's love of reading by strengthening foundational expressive and receptive language skills through Language and Literature activities and decodable chapter books.

     

                                                                  

    LEVEL 3 – Designed to thoroughly explore prefixes and suffixes while finalizing spellings of long vowel sounds. 

    • Provides a detailed exploration of morphology for reading and spelling words with prefixes and suffixes.
    • Continues to reinforce the student's love of reading by strengthening foundational expressive and receptive language skills through Language and Literature activities and decodable chapter books.
    • Provides a detailed introduction to Expressive Writing.



         

        5 Components of the Program

        Each level consists of five physical components of the Up-Words Reading® program: Teacher’s Manual, Student Workbook, Decodable Reader Series, Resource Kit, and Progress Manual.  

         

        Teachers ManualsThe Up-Words Reading® Teacher’s Manual provides step-by-step directions for the teacher to walk the student through daily lesson activities. Each day’s lesson activities are carefully designed to train the student to internalize and use the phonetic code, automatically recognize sight words, and enjoy and understand high-quality literature. View Sample: Level 0 Teacher Manual      Level 1 Teacher Manual    Level 2 Teacher Manual      Level 3 Teacher Manual

         

         

         

        Student WorkbooksThe Up-Words Reading® Student Workbooks are designed to be used in close conjunction with the Teacher’s Manual. As opposed to traditional workbooks, the Up-Words Reading® workbook pages are created, not as stand-alone paper-and-pencil workbook pages, but as tools to complete the activities detailed in the Teacher’s Manual. All workbook activities are designed with a clear objective in mind, guiding students toward mastery of a specific skill in one or more of the four key areas of instruction. View Sample: Level 0 Student Workbook    Level 1 Student Workbook  Level 2 Student Workbook  Level 3 Student Workbook

         

         

        Decodable ReadersThe Up-Words Reading® Decodable Readers are a unique set of books that allow ample practice with each new phonetic sound and sight word introduced in the Up-Words Reading program. In addition to being fun and engaging, these readers are perfectly aligned with the specific skills targeted in each daily Up-Words Reading® lesson. In these readers, students are never asked to read a word they have not previously been taught to decode or identify. Moreover, unlike many other programs, the Up-Words Reading® Decodable Readers follow a recurring cast of characters through linear storylines which often span multiple books, to keep students interested and curiosity piqued. Therefore, the student improves reading rate, accuracy and comprehension as s/he progresses through the series. Age-appropriate comprehension questions are included to enable teachers to target memory and sequencing skills, as well as answering higher-order reasoning questions. View Sample: Level 0 Decodable Reader  Level 1 Decodable Reader   Level 2 Decodable Reader  Level 3 Decodable Reader       

         

        The Up-words Reading™ Resource KitThe Up-words Reading® Resource Kit includes all of the materials necessary to carry out daily multi-sensory drills. Phonics cards that build mastery of letter-sound correspondence; word cards that increase student fluency and automaticity in reading phonetic and sight words; tools such as the sand tray, letter tiles, and play dough that offer multi-sensory integration; and helpful and fun posters and wall cards that serve as critical visual cues are all found in this valuable kit.  

         

        The Up-Words Reading™ Progress ManualThe Up-Words Reading® Progress Manual includes weekly Progress Checks, as well as periodic in-depth Progress Assessments.  With these tools, teachers will be able to effectively monitor and track whether students have internalized and are using key skills as they read and spell. View Sample: Level 0 Progress Manual    Level 1 Progress Manual    Level 2 Progress Manual    Level 3 Progress Manual 

        Each component of the Up-Words Reading® program is designed to work in conjunction with the others to help students achieve step-by-step goals and objectives within the four key areas of instruction. The ultimate goal is that students learn to read and understand written language to empower them to succeed in all future educational endeavors.