Progress In Learning Reading Workbooks

Progress In Learning has produced a series of workbooks written by Kim Morris. Aimed at early students and those with learning difficulties of any age, they provide a simple yet effective way to improve essential literacy skills.

The Program

The program is based on a common-sense approach to reading using a structured and cumulative phonic system of word patterns. Irregular words that occur in the English language are gradually introduced and the students are taught to decode longer multisyllabic words as the reading series progresses. The books include the 300 most commonly used words in English.

The book is an invaluable resource for use within the context of the regular classroom and in working with those children and adults who find reading a challenge.

Purpose of the books

These books can be used to teach students how to:

Read faster
Read with greater accuracy
Decode longer words
Spell with greater accuracy
Write simple sentences correctly
Listen more effectively
Understand the meaning of simple sentences

People who would benefit from using the books

Parents to use with their children who have reading, writing or language difficulties
Dyslexic students who are reading below the expected level of achievement
Teachers, teacher aides and specialist teachers who work with dyslexic children as part of their reading and writing programme at home and at school
Students who are reading adequately but wish to accelerate their progress
Teachers who need a list of words which are taught systematically and in word families
Peer tutors who may wish to help younger or less able students more effectively and can read with them
Adult literacy students

Progress In Learning book 1

This book provides systematic, cumulative, structured and explicit phonics instruction starting with the single sounds of the alphabet. Free phonics skills checklist available on the Progress In Learning website, to see which book is needed. The course progresses through reading 3-lettered words with CVC, incorporates the first 100 high frequency words, pseudo words, decodable sentences, rime chunks and words with initial and final blends. Free, ready-made flashcards and activities may be downloaded from the PIL website.

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Progress In Learning book 2

This is a progression from book 1. The course includes the teaching of words with triple blends, consonant digraphs, pseudo words, sentences, final silent -e, vowel digraphs, vowel-modified -r and the next 200 commonly used words. Decodable sentences containing the words taught, are included. Free, ready-made flashcards and activities may be downloaded from the PIL website.

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Progress In Learning book 3

This is a progression from book 2. The course includes the teaching of words with more than one syllable, silent letter words, contraction words, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, word endings, syllabification, soft -c- and -g- , other sounds and decodable sentences incorporating the above.

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