What Are First Steps & Early Steps℠?

These UURC intervention models are designed for at-risk, beginning readers who read at or below mid-Grade 1 level. Early Steps℠ finalizes alphabet mastery and provides phonemic awareness, systematic, explicit one-syllable short vowel phonics and assisted reading.

Recommended 5 days per week - 30 minutes per session

Components:

• Rereading Familiar Books on Instructional Level
  • initially, to develop concept of word
  • to build fluency
• Word Study
  • to develop phonemic awareness and alphabet knowledge
  • to develop strategies for identifying unfamiliar words when reading
  • to increase high frequency sight vocabulary
• Writing
  • to develop phonemic awareness
              (attend to and segment individual sounds in speech)
  • to become familiar with sentence writing conventions
              (e.g., capitalization, spaces between words, punctuation)
• Assisted Reading of New Book on Instructional Level
  • to build a framework of meaning prior to reading text
  • to engage in comprehension strategies while reading
              (e.g., prediction, retelling, problem/solution)

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