Steps of an Effective Phonics Lesson
Step 1: Review
Step 2: Teach New Concept
Step 3: Word Reading Accuracy
Step 4: Word Reading Fluency
Step 5: Reading Fluency (short phrases, long phrases, sentences, text)
Step 6: Word Building
Step 7: Sentence Dictation
Step 8: Transfer to Text (first with decodable readers)
Decodable texts should be used for primary instruction until student is learning vowel teams.