A kindergarten student, Justoo Bright, enters kindergarten already knowing all his letters, the letter sounds and is reading at the first grade level or above.  He has already mastered all the kindergarten reading skills, many of the first grade objectives, and a few of the second grade objectives as well. What reading program are you going to use to challenge and systematically teach this child needed phonemes, vocabulary, sight words and fluency at higher levels?  Fishing With Phonics is the perfect tool to continue to accelerate this child’s reading skills by individually teaching this child and others like him during small group instruction. Because all the materials and flashcards are ready made, it does not expend an extraordinary amount of the teacher’s time to plan for the individualized or small group instruction. 

Scenario #2
At Taylor Ray Elementary in Lamar CISD the entire second grade team is using this program.  The children’s reading levels vary between the primer and third grade levels.  For a portion of the reading instructional time the students are ability grouped.  The lower level students are working generally on the Level One and Level Two words while being encouraged and challenged to work on some Level Three words.  Many of the academically higher level students are reading Levels One through Three and are then being challenged to and are reading most Level Four words!  Teachers do not have to juggle multiple programs to differentiate instruction.

The reading specialist, who serves the academically lowest group of students in this grade, reports that at her small group reading center the students want to and are encouraged to attempt to read the higher level words.  As these lower students see the decoding process being modeled for multi-syllable words day after day in their picture dictionaries, and as they see higher level students decoding larger words, they gain the confidence and skills to move to the next level.