Reading Horizons
   

Discover Intensive Phonics 4.0 Features

Discover Intensive Phonics features 75 multi-sensory, interactive lessons, each followed by a practice session to reinforce concepts in phonics, decoding, and reading.

New in 4.0

  • Phonemic awareness activities correlate to the DIBELS assessment and comprise seven unique areas, including rhyming, syllabication, initial consonant sounds, final consonant sounds, medial vowel sounds, blending, and sound identification
  • Progress Assessment includes a word recognition test, a Most Common Words assessment, a nonsense words assessment, and a phonemic awareness assessment.
  • Fun with Phonics activities allow students to reinforce concepts in a fun and engaging format.
  • New, user-friendly interface allows for easy navigation.

Administrative Features

  • Four interim tests ensure a student's mastery of skills taught.
  • Track student progress through the Progress Report and Interim Test Reports.
  • Prescriptions are automatically generated, indicating which lessons need to be reviewed.
  • Import/export student data.
  • Password-protected to ensure data integrity.

Other Features

  • Scientifically based.
  • Self-paced.
  • Alpha Say component shows pictures and full-motion video demonstrating tongue placement and proper pronunciation for alphabet sounds.
  • ABC Draw gives students practice in writing the uppercase and lowercase forms of each letter.
  • Twenty-eight fully illustrated stories provide reading practice at each skill level.