Teaching Sequence in ReadingDoctor® Online
The ReadingDoctor® Synthetic Phonics Sequence explicitly teaches students over 90 English letter-sound patterns and thousands of words for students to practice decoding, all with accompanying definitions and illustrations to assist comprehension and strengthen vocabulary skills. The teaching sequence includes approximately 3 years of phonics content!
The sequence includes activities designed to strengthen Letter-Sound (Grapheme) Knowledge, Blending, Decoding, Segmentation, Spelling & Sight Word skills.
To understand how the teaching sequence is organised in ReadingDoctor® Online, try our interactive guide:
The sequence consists of sets of activities that target a specific skill (e.g. ‘CVC Decoding’). Activities within sets are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, with scaffolding (help given to the student) decreasing until a student shows mastery in a skill without help from the program.
Sets are unlocked as the student progresses through the sequence. For example, if a student starts at the beginning of the sequence, only the ‘Single Letter Graphemes’ and ‘CVC Blending’ sets will be available. As the student masters skills taught in each set, new sets are unlocked for the student (e.g. completing the ‘Single Letter Graphemes’ and ‘CVC Blending’ sets unlocks the ‘CVC Decoding’ set).
Activities within sets are arranged in order of increasing difficulty, with scaffolding (help given to the student) decreasing until a student shows mastery in a skill without help from the program.
To move to the next level of difficulty in a set, students must achieve at least 80% accuracy. If they score between 50% and 80%, that activity will be repeated next time the set is played. If the student scores 50% or less, the program will present the previous (easier) activity in the set the next time the set is played.