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Read Naturally's Group and Tutoring Edition (GATE) for Phonics uses the powerful research-based Read Naturally strategy. This direct-instruction program develops phonemic awareness and phonics skills as well as reading fluency in small groups of beginning readers.
How It Works
Teachers present scripted lessons (using teacher modeling, repeated practice, and progress monitoring) as students look at pictures, letters,
key words, and stories on the flipchart. Teachers provide direct instruction with small groups of up
to six students for 20 to 30 minutes daily.
Students' reading skills improve by:
- Developing phonemic awareness by segmenting and blending sounds in words
- Strengthening proficiency with letter sounds
- Learning to decode short, phonetically regular words
- Building fluency using word lists and stories
- Spelling short, phonetically regular words
- Developing comprehension through writing predictions
and retells, and answering questions
What's Included
The components of GATE are a teacher's guide and consumable student story books. Starter kits for each level include one teacher's guide and six student story books. Additional packs of six student books are also available.
GATE Teacher’s Guide
The teacher's guide is a 10-by-14-inch, spiral-bound flipchart with a display tent so teachers can set it on a table or hold it on their laps while teaching the group.
The teacher's guide includes instruction for each of the stories (24 stories per level). The pages facing the students provide the student lessons (with letters, pictures, key words, and story text), and the pages facing the teacher provide teacher instructions, including what to say to students as they work through each story.
Student Story Books
The 7-by-9-inch consumable student books include four-page booklets for each story. The books are constructed so teachers can remove the booklets in the order of the lessons. Students can then take the stories home for further practice and as evidence of their success.
