Close Phonics Skill Gaps in 25 Days this Summer
To meet urgent student needs, we elected to introduce our first Summer School product into classrooms by using content from our 95 Phonics Core Program®.
Our 95 Phonics Booster Bundle: Summer School 2nd Edition with all new content and the same targeted, research-based structured literacy instructional approach.
Content updates for all 3 grade levels were driven by client feedback and the results of a Summer School research study conducted by an independent firm (see the results below). The following skill and pacing adjustments were made exclusively to the Rising 1st Summer School 2nd Edition to include:
- Letter-Sound Correspondence
- Letter Formation (uppercase and lowercase)
- Blending Awareness
- Reading simple VC and CVC words (mastery of all 5 short vowel sounds)
- Writing simple VC and CVC words using sound-spelling mapping
- High-Frequency Words (30 total from the Pre-primer and Primer Dolch List)
- The program culminates in the last 5 days with reading and writing phrases, sentences and 1 short, illustrated story
Our Summer School 2nd Edition will continue to provide an all-inclusive phonics and word study program, that delivers explicit, sequential, and cumulative instruction, to prepare students for success at the next grade level. The 25-day daily lesson plans address gaps in foundational skills for rising 1st through 3rd graders taught either whole class or small group.
The program is not designed to include all other Tier 1 ELA components such as read-alouds, oral language and vocabulary development, authentic text, comprehension instruction, and process writing. These components can be covered in a second time block using existing curriculum materials.
The Summer School 2nd Edition lessons were developed to be taught for 30-45 minutes a day. The program offers educators flexibility to use it for fewer than 25 days by skipping the beginning or ending lessons, based on the skills that students most urgently need. This summer school program can be used for in-person or remote instruction to accommodate student learning needs.
Review the Crosswalk Document to preview the difference between Summer School 2021 and Summer School 2nd Edition.
All-Inclusive Phonics and Word Study Program Reduces Teacher Prep and Provides Consistent School or District-Wide Instruction
Our Summer School 2nd Edition is designed to cover all planning requirements because the Teacher’s Package and Student Workbook Package provide all of the necessary components for effective implementation including engaging, individual student phonics manipulatives, Sound-Spelling cards, digital Presentation Files and decodable texts.
No lesson planning is needed, and teachers don’t have to pull materials to create Summer School plans. This self-contained program can assist in attracting teachers, who otherwise might be ready to take a break this summer, to consider teaching a session.
Improve Student Reading Success at the next Grade Level
95 Percent Group is a leader in developing phonics materials that provide teachers with explicit, systematic, and sequential lessons to be use in intervention and in a core strand. Releasing a summer school program that includes the routines and strategies that make our other programs successful, will provide the instruction schools need to close skill gaps, prevent summer slide, and improve student reading success at the next grade level.
Gains Study of 95 Phonics Booster Bundle®: Summer School Edition
Results Show Significant Student Outcomes
The Phonics Booster Bundle® was introduced in the Spring of 2021 to use as both a Summer School program and a fall Tune-Up for the 2021-22 school year.
This explicit 25-day phonic program for students in grades 1-3 can be taught whole class or in small groups to address phonics skill deficits. The all-inclusive resource provides targeted structured-literacy instruction that is systematic, sequential, and cumulative.
An independent study of our Summer School program shows that it is effectively closing phonics gaps. This initial report indicates that all 3 grade levels (Rising 1, Rising 2, and Rising 3) made statistically significant gains from instruction with our 95 Phonics Booster Bundle®: Summer School Edition.
As indicated in the downloadable document below, the well below students improved as much as the below students on the % of correct responses on the posttest vs the pretest.
Review the report for more in-depth information: Gains Study of 95 Phonics Booster Bundle®: Summer School Edition.
Summer School Efficacy Study provides ESSA Level 2 Evidence
Click here to view the research results from an independent study conducted during the Summer 0f 2021 with two districts, one in CA and one in AZ.