Supersonic Phonics
Word and Sound Practice
Read with ease at supersonic speed! Fun phoneme practice helps early readers build confidence by exploring decodable words. Each book includes five words using the featured phonemes, gives the opportunity to review the practice words, and provides an activity to reinforce sound and letter learning.
With 46 titles over 3 levels, these books provide word and sound practice to new and early readers. Teaching Tips provide guidance on how to use the books, and an ongoing word bank tracks words with the same focus phoneme. Finally, an activity encourages continued practice with focus phonemes.
Reading Level: Grades PreK-K
Interest Level: Grades PreK-1
Color Band Levels
Increasing repetition and complexity promote progress, growth, and enjoyment
Supersonic Phonics begins with the very basics of phonetically decodable reading. Starting with the earliest step of CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant) and building on this combination slowly, the reader follows a prescribed format supported by The Science of Reading to encourage reading development. This systematic and sequential approach supports most phonics programs.
Supersonic Phonics is organized by level and color bands, providing a consistent and structured approach that helps guide and support reading instruction. As the reader moves through the color band levels, the page numbers, level of repetition, and sentence structure complexity all advance at a rate which encourages development and reading confidence.
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Level 0: Lilac
Books support children’s developing speaking and listening skills as well as the linking of sounds and letters. Children are encouraged to enjoy books from as early an age as possible. However, the focus of this phase is on listening to and repeating sounds, rather than on directly reading words. In our level 0 books, there are no words.
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Level 1: Pink | Level 2: Red
Books introduce simple letter-sound combinations. As each set of letters is introduced, children are encouraged to use their new knowledge to sound out and blend words. For example, they will learn to blend the sounds s–a–t to make the word sat.
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Level 3: Yellow | Level 4: Blue
Children build on the letter-sound combinations learned in levels 1 and 2. They learn consonant digraphs (sounds made up of two letters together such as ‘ch’ or ‘ll’) and long vowel sounds (such as ‘igh’ or ‘ai’).
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Level 4/5: Blue/Green
Children will practice their knowledge in this level, and will learn to read and spell words which have adjacent consonants (for example, trap, strong, milk and crept).
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Level 5: Green | Level 6: Orange | Level 7: Turquoise | Level 8: Purple
Children will learn new graphemes and alternative pronunciations for known graphemes. For example, they have already learned /ow/ as in ‘cow’ and will now learn /ow/ as in ‘blow’. In addition, they will learn alternative spelling for known phonemes. For example, the sound /igh/ has been taught as the grapheme igh as in ‘night’, but can also be spelled ‘y’, ‘ie’, and ‘i-e’.
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Level 9: Gold | Level 10: White | Level 11: Lime
Children read with increasing fluency. They will have learned most of the common lettersound combinations and can read familiar words automatically without needing to sound out and blend.
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Teacher and Parent Resources
Free downloadable pages!
Teacher and Parent Resources provide an opportunity for readers to practice the concepts learned in each book. Printed resource pages for each book are available for FREE with every package purchase. They are also all available to download for FREE.
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Correlations
Supersonic Phonics titles have been correlated to:
• Heggerty
• Orton-Gillingham
• UFLI Foundations
• Wilson Fundations
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