The Long Vowels – Decoding Skills Course, Book 2, introduces students to a reading strategy designed to help them identify the vowel sound in words. Identifying vowel sounds is the most pressing challenge in the early stages of reading. This course focuses on teaching the decoding skills necessary to read words, phrases, and sentences.

The lessons begin with a review of the consonant sounds, which students practiced in Book 1. Next, students are guided through a step-by-step process to determine whether a letter in a word is a vowel or a consonant. This is an essential step for students to transition from identifying letters to reading words.

Now the fun begins! We will teach our students strategies that enable them to read a story at the conclusion of each section. We start by introducing the Reading Code, the first strategy to recognize the sound of the vowels. As students read long vowel words in each lesson, they also advance their knowledge of consonant sounds.

Throughout the workbook, students write long vowel accent marks before reading the words to provide a visual understanding of the vowel sound. Students learn that if the vowel is a long vowel, it says its name. Examples of words with long vowel sounds are kite, gate, and leaf.

The words in each lesson have been carefully chosen to allow students to practice their understanding of long vowel sounds in reading phrases, short stories, and various activities, such as Read and Draw and Identify the Drawing. With prompting and support, students will read words they have already practiced and decode new words in the context of sentences.

This course provides a video lesson for each page in the workbook. As the parent, you may participate with your child or request to schedule an online reading session with a Reading Pal, who will guide your child through the lesson.