Foundational Skills Lessons Paired with Phonics Storybooks
About Phonics Launch
Each Phonics Launch set includes easy-to-follow, evidence-based lesson plans that pair with high-quality decodable books—so teachers can deliver explicit, engaging instruction with confidence. The program meets ESSA Level 2 (Moderate Evidence) criteria, ensuring districts can rely on research-backed effectiveness to support improved student outcomes.
Choose the set that meets your students where they are:
- Pre-Launch Alphabetic—Introduces letter names, letter-sound correspondences, letter formation, and concepts of print
- Ready, Set, Go—For students just beginning to learn letter sounds and blending simple CVC words
- On Our Way—Focuses on short vowels, blends, and digraphs to build decoding confidence
- Building Up—Introduces long vowel patterns and more complex phonics structures
- Moving On—Expands knowledge of vowel teams, vowel-r combinations, and multisyllabic words
- Lifting Off—Reinforces phonics through more advanced patterns while strengthening fluency and comprehension
- Orbiting—Age-appropriate decodable texts designed for upper-grade students needing practice with high-utility phonics skills
No matter where your students are on their reading journey, Phonics Launch gives you the tools to take them further—step by step.
Captivating Decodable Phonics Storybooks
- Includes a collection of beautifully illustrated decodable readers that follow a scope and sequence, while also capturing the interest of young readers!
- The Phonics Storybooks are carefully written so that previously taught and newly acquired phonic elements are at the forefront.
Daily Paired Phonemic Awareness And Phonics Activities
- Mini-lessons include a systematic and highly sequential progression of phonemic awareness activities.
- Multimodal phonics instruction supports students in building flexibility and strong decoding and encoding skills.
Immediate Transfer Of Phonemic Awareness/Phonics To Reading And Writing
- Decoding and encoding practice throughout the lesson encourages students to become flexible word solvers while reading and writing.
- Interactive or guided writing is built into each lesson.
- Dictated sentences that have been strategically crafted to ensure practice of phonic elements are included in every lesson.
Flexible Lessons
- Evidence-based lessons fill gaps in phonemic awareness, phonics, and fluency.
- Phonic instruction supplements where students need additional instruction along the phonics continuum.
- The program masterfully supports differentiated instruction in a small-group setting and can be easily adapted to whole-group instruction.
Differentiated Instruction
- A built-in phonics survey helps determine individual needs and a starting place within the lessons.
- Individual progress monitoring is ongoing throughout the lesson framework.
- Suggested corrective feedback is offered to scaffold differentiation.
Advanced Decodables for Grade-Level Students
- High-interest decodable readers feature complex text perfect for older students who need a bit more practice at specific skills.
- Engaging and age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction topics ensure students enjoy what they’re reading as they gain mastery over phonic elements.
PHONICS LAUNCH IN ACTION
