Week-by-Week Phonics & Word Study Activities for the Intermediate Grades 35 Mini-Lessons With Skill-Building Activities to Help Students Tackle Multisyllabic Words and Improve Their Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension

Short, weekly fluency-building activities designed by phonics expert Wiley Blevins give teachers of grades 3-6 the tools they need to help struggling readers decode multisyllabic words and read grade-level texts with confidence. Each set of activities includes a skill-building mini-lesson targeting multisyllabic words, follow-up practice pages to help students apply what they've learned, a speed drill, and an activity that helps students master the top 322 syllables, ten at a time. For use with Grades 3-6.

Wiley Blevins is an early reading specialist who holds a M. Ed. from Harvard. He taught elementary school in both the United States and South America, and was Director of Special Projects for Scholastic in New York City. Wiley has written and edited many phonics and reading materials, and is the author of Phonics from A-Z and Teaching Phonics and Word Study in the Intermediate Grades. He has also coauthored with Alice Boynton Teaching Students to Read Nonfiction, Nonfiction Passages with Graphic Organizers for Independent Practice, and the Navigating Nonfiction program. He lives in New York City.