Direct Instruction Materials for ESL/ESOL

The Discover Intensive Phonics direct instruction materials are designed to meet the unique needs of ESL/ESOL classrooms.

The Discover Intensive Phonics Intermediate and Adult Teacher’s Kit is designed specifically for use with older students. The kit includes a two-volume Teacher’s Manual, enriched with ESL/ESOL aids and an appendix containing games and activities to enhance learning. Other kit components include:

• Student Involvement Material book with black-line masters of student worksheets
• 192 Reverse Listening Cards
• The Five Phonetic Skills poster, Vowels poster, and two wall-size posters showing alphabet sounds and blends
• Enrichment CD with teacher aids
• Optional flipcharts may be purchased separately.

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A collection of student worksheets that reinforce the phonics taught in the program and provide education in cultural concepts. These worksheets cover topics from social greetings and holidays to money and modes of transportation and offer students practice in reading, writing, and speaking English.

• The ESL Sound CD correlates with the ESL Workbook practice sheets to provide practice with the 42 Sounds, slides, words, and Minimal Pairs exercises.

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The latest addition to the Discover Intensive Phonics methodology is the condensed Teacher’s Manual Decoding Strategies for Literacy Development. This new manual can be used by teachers, paraprofessionals, tutors, institutions of higher learning as a classroom manual, parents, and for self-study. It contains all of the skills taught in the larger Teacher’s Kit manuals. Instructional emphasis of this Decoding Strategies manual is focused in three areas: kindergarten-third grade, fourth grade-adult, and ESL/ESOL, meaning it can be used with any age group. The sequence is the same as the Intermediate/Adult Teacher’s Manuals, but there are suggestions for teachers of younger students contained throughout.

There are four supplements that augment the learning process for all students. The General Supplement has helps for teachers that can be used with any age or ability level. It contains letter-formation guides, games and activities, a glossary of terms, and Word Banks of practice words by skill. The Intermediate/Adult Supplement contains a correlation to the skills taught in the Reading Horizons software. The Elementary Supplement has materials that are specific to younger students. It contains time frames; B/D reversal tips; modifications to the content and sequence for younger students; specific Word Banks for younger students; and correlations to Kindergarten and First Grade and Above Reverse Listening Cards and the Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself software. The final supplement is the ESOL Supplement, which contains many helpful tools for teachers of ESOL students, including pronunciation guides for the 42 Sounds taught in the course, correlation to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and Minimal Pairs activities.

• Decoding Strategies Manual
• 192 Reverse Listening Cards
• Two wall-size posters (the 42 Sounds of the Alphabet, Blends)

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Two sets of flashcards with words on one side and pictures on the other allow students to practice reading, pronunciation, and vocabulary skills. Set 1 begins with three-letter words and progresses through words using the Five Phonetic Skills. Set 2 includes words with more-advanced letter combinations, multi-syllabic words, contractions, and pronouns.

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