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Program Overview

Research Papers

Correlations

Miscellaneous

Select and Download Basal Series Correlations information
Download the Correlations to EPS Decodable Readers
Download the Strategies for Classroom Implementation and Management
Download the Magtile Organization Chart
Download Dr. Steed’s original dissertation
Read an interview with Dr. Steed

Testimonials

“The greatest thing about Touchphonics is that my student teachers and I can reach children who we wouldn’t be able to reach otherwise. [W]orking one-on-one with students from kindergarten to 6th grade, we saw fluency levels jump as much as 2 to 3 grade levels in one semester.”
Cindy Larson Reading and Language Arts Faculty
Brigham Young University
“I’ve seen the light come on behind so many children’s eyes as they realize, ‘Now I get it!’ Touchphonics is the link that helps students connect phonics to reading and writing.”
Nycole Larsen, M.Ed. Reading Specialist
Chicago, Illinois
“The beauty of Touchphonics is the immediate success each child feels, which leads to a more relaxed and positive attitude. As their self-esteem improves, their learning channels reopen.”
Pat Helm Title One Coordinator
Solano School
Phoenix, Arizona
“I tutored nine students using Touchphonics with real literature. They advanced at least one grade level and in some cases one and a half grade levels in reading.”
Ann Thober Woodland Park Elementary
Norfolk, Nebraska
“Because it works fast! I love the organized trays and teaching guide. My prep time is minimal and the quick results of my students make me look good. I love the Touchphonics readers.”
Yadira Uotila Arctic Light Elementary, AK

Sample Lessons

Touchphonics®

The hands on approach to phonics and word study
Intervention Appropriate Grades K–5

By: Dr. Robin Steed


Provide at-risk students with an alternative approach to phonics, word structure, and spelling with this unique, multisensory program. Students utilize tactile, kinesthetic, visual, and auditory modalities to:

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  • Enhance memory and learning
  • Understand the structure of words without drill

Unique design unlocks the mystery for struggling readers!

Each Touchphonics lesson introduces a particular phoneme or phonemic pattern. Through manipulation of the Touch-Units®students then can link sounds to letters, recognize patterns, and build and write words before finally reading words in context. Touch-Units make decoding concepts attainable by involving four modalities: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile. Touchphonics unlocks the reading process for students of varied abilities, within the following populations:

  • Struggling Readers
  • Students with Attention Deficit Disorders
  • Dyslexic students
  • English Language Learners
 
  • Autistic students
  • Students with Cerebral Palsy

Word building with Touch-Units

Touch-UnitWord building is the key step in every Touchphonics lesson where students work with Touch-Units to build and manipulate words. Touch-Units are three dimensional letters and linked letter combinations that provide concrete representations of the essential English graphemes. Touch-Units are made of soft, flexible, rubber (latex free)*, with a textured surface to intensify the tactile neurological input—crucial to at-risk readers.

Easily aligns with any phonics or basal program

Any phonics concept introduced can be preceded by a Touchphonics® lesson for that same concept. This allows at-risk students to develop abstract phonics concepts with targeted, tactile lessons before paper-and-pencil practice.

 

Pricing
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# Item Grade Range 1-5 6+ Quantity Sub-total
8809-WX Teacher’s Guide and Resource Book
1–5 pricing: 56.45
6+ pricing: —
Teacher’s Guide and Resource Book

The Teacher's Guide and Resource Book provides direct, systematic instruction in an easy-to-use format that will facilitate teacher planning.  Fifty nine lessons introduce and review phonemes in a detailed, eleven-step format that incorporates phonemic awareness; linking sounds to letters; blending sounds; building and manipulating words; transcribing words; and a decodable reader with prereading and comprehension activities.

Other resources include:

  • prereading exercises and a review of consonant letters for students who require additional support when beginning the program
  • additional phonological awareness activities in the appendix
  • patterned word lists for extending lessons or creating additional activities, games, and drills
  • Assessment tools which include Consonant Inventory; Decoding and Encoding Diagnostic Inventory; reproducible summary and score sheets; and running record guidelines

Download corrections for pages 174–177 and 179.


Features
• Provides explicit, systematic, and engaging phonics instruction
• Especially effective for at-risk readers and students with language-based learning disabilities
• Efficient, effective materials conserve instructional time and maximize learning
• Combines synthetic phonics instruction with structural, analytic phonics and word building
• Incorporates visual, auditory, kinesthetic, tactile modalities (VAKT)
K–5 56.45 —
8810-WX Student Workbook
1–5 pricing: 11.25
6+ pricing: 7.90
Student Workbook

The Student Workbook provides independent practice for the 59 lessons in the Teacher's Guide and Resource Book. For each lesson, there are three practice pages:

  • A decoding practice page that focuses on the lesson skill and reviews previously taught skills
  • A page for recording the words students have made with Touch-Units
  • A page for every decodable reader that includes both student response and selection comprehension


K–5 11.25 7.90
8849-WX Blackline Decodable Readers (Vol. 1 & 2)
1–5 pricing: 219.40
6+ pricing: —
Blackline Decodable Readers (Vol. 1 & 2)

The Blackline Masters are a set of 59 illustrated, decodable readers to be reproduced, one for each Touchphonics lesson. The Readers include continuing characters and humorous situations that invite students to apply skills and enjoy reading. Story titles follow the order in which they are presented in the lessons and include all the stories in Volumes 1 and 2.

Volume 1 titles:

  • Adding Ant
  • Izzy Can Jig
  • Top Job
  • The Cub and the Bug
  • Wet Ed
  • Dan the Dog
  • The Pig Pen
  • Max and the Bed Bugs
  • Jam in the Den
  • Thad and Beth
  • Chub and the Chips
  • The Shop
  • Will the Whale
  • Will’s Birthday
  • The Hip Hop Club
  • Scott the Squirrel
  • Brad the Crab
  • Flash and Fred
  • The Raccoon
  • Spring
  • Chad at Camp
  • Inchworm
  • Jack the Vet
  • Madge at the Farm
  • The Little Lamb
  • The Yo-Yo
  • The Frog and the Fly
  • First Rate Rat
  • A Fine Fish
  • The Mule and the Mole
  • Snake Bakes a Snack
  • True Blue Friends
  • Space Age Mice

Volume 2 titles:

  • The Storm from the North
  • A Ride to the Park
  • Fern and the Baby Bird
  • Earthworms
  • Pierre and the Fair Lady
  • Toad and the Goat
  • The Fruit Thief
  • A Coral Reef
  • A Baby Quail’s Day
  • Claude and Paul
  • Mr. Lloyd’s Royal Meat Shop
  • The Cow and the Sow
  • Camping at the Brook
  • Buckaroo Stew
  • The Eager Beavers Scout the Hound Dog
  • The Happy Valley Zoo
  • Larry the Library Spider
  • Greg’s Birthday at the Ballpark
  • Julie’s Gymnastics Class
  • The Circus
  • Apple Time with Annie
  • Wihelmina Walrus
  • The Pacific Coast
  • The Whale Event
  • The Celebration


Skills Addressed

Decodable Readers Volume 1 covers:

  • Word pattern group 1 (VC and CVC words)
  • Word pattern group 2 (consonant blends and silent letters)
  • Word pattern group 3 (CV, CVe, and CVCe words)

Decodable Readers Volume 2 covers:

  • Word pattern group 4 (r-controlled vowel words)
  • Word pattern group 5 (vowel combinations)
K–5 219.40 —
8811-WX Single Touch-units Set
1–5 pricing: 56.15
6+ pricing: —
Single Touch-units Set

Choking Hazard-Small parts.

The Touch-Units include more than 200 three-dimensional textured-plastic letter units, color-coded by category, and representing all English graphemes. Touch-Units are soft; the topside is rough and the underside is smooth. If students place the Touch-Unit upside down, it will not lie flat, a clue that helps students self-correct letter reversals.

Categories and Colors:
  • Single Consonants (yellow)
    • Examples: b, c, d, j, k, p, t, v and z, f, l, m, n, s, r, x, g, h, qu, y, w

  • Consonant Digraphs (yellow)
    • Examples: ch, sh, wh, th as in thin, th as in that

  • Silent Letter Combinations (white with yellow sounded letters)
    • Examples: kn, ck, mb, gu, wr

  • Initial Consonant Blends (blue)
    • Examples: bl, br, sl, st, gr, gl, sn, cl, pr, tr, dr, pl

  • Final Consonant Blends (green)
    • Examples: sp, st, sk, nd, ng, nk, nt, mp, lt, nch

  • Borrowed Sounds, Schwa, and Punctuation Marks (brown)
    • Examples: gh, ph, ci, si,ti, ú, 2, ’)

  • Vowels (red)
    • Examples: a, e, i, o, u, y

  • Silent Letters (white)
    • Examples: e, w, gh, t

  • r Controlled Vowels (yellow and red)
    • Examples: or, ar, ir, er, us, air, ear

  • Vowel Combinations (red)
    • Examples: eel, oa, ie, ui, oo, ow, ew, ey, ei, ea, ou, ai, aw, oy

  • Prefixes (orange)
    • Examples: en, dis, de, pre, un, per, imp, pro, re, con, a, com, in, ex

  • Suffixes (purple)
    • Examples: s, es, ing, ed, er, est, en, ary, sure, ness, ic


 K–5 56.15 —
8801-WX Magtiles Kit
1–5 pricing: 336.40
6+ pricing: —
Magtiles Kit

The Touch-Units are available for teacher demonstration in the form of color-coded magnetic letters that come with three pocket charts for storage and display. Magtiles are particularly recommended for large group or whole class instruction.


K–5 336.40 —
8851-WX Decodable Readers Volume 1 (5 each of 33 titles)
1–5 pricing: 225.05
6+ pricing: —
Decodable Readers Volume 1 (5 each of 33 titles)

The Touchphonics decodable readers include stories with recurring characters and humorous situations, nonfiction, and a Reader’s Theater. The selections invite students to apply skills at the same time as they enjoy reading. Volumes 1 and 2 make a great addition to a classroom library of decodable books.

Volume 1 consists of 33 individually bound titles, 5 copies of each title.

Volume 1 titles:
  • Adding Ant
  • Izzy Can Jig
  • Top Job
  • The Cub and the Bug
  • Wet Ed
  • Dan the Dog
  • The Pig Pen
  • Max and the Bed Bugs
  • Jam in the Den
  • Thad and Beth
  • Chub and the Chips
  • The Shop
  • Will the Whale
  • Will’s Birthday
  • The Hip Hop Club
  • Scott the Squirrel
  • Brad the Crab
  • Flash and Fred
  • The Raccoon
  • Spring
  • Chad at Camp
  • Inchworm
  • Jack the Vet
  • Madge at the Farm
  • The Little Lamb
  • The Yo-Yo
  • The Frog and the Fly
  • First Rate Rat
  • A Fine Fish
  • The Mule and the Mole
  • Snake Bakes a Snack
  • True Blue Friends
  • Space Age Mice


Skills Addressed

Decodable Readers Volume 1 covers:

  • VC and CVC words
  • consonant blends and silent letters
  • CV, CVe, and CVCe words
K–5 225.05 —
8853-WX Decodable Readers Volume 2 (5 each of 26 titles)
1–5 pricing: 225.05
6+ pricing: —
Decodable Readers Volume 2 (5 each of 26 titles)

The Touchphonics decodable readers include stories with recurring characters and humorous situations, nonfiction, and a Reader’s Theater. The selections invite students to apply skills at the same time as they enjoy reading. Volumes 1 and 2 make a great addition to a classroom library of decodable books.

Volume 2 consists of 26 individually bound titles, 5 copies of each title.

Volume 2 titles:
  • The Storm from the North
  • A Ride to the Park
  • Fern and the Baby Bird
  • Earthworms
  • Pierre and the Fair Lady
  • Toad and the Goat
  • The Fruit Thief
  • A Coral Reef
  • A Baby Quail’s Day
  • Claude and Paul
  • Mr. Lloyd’s Royal Meat Shop
  • The Cow and the Sow
  • Camping at the Brook
  • Buckaroo Stew
  • The Eager Beavers Scout the Hound Dog
  • The Happy Valley Zoo
  • Larry the Library Spider
  • Greg’s Birthday at the Ballpark
  • Julie’s Gymnastics Class
  • The Circus
  • Apple Time with Annie
  • Wihelmina Walrus
  • The Pacific Coast
  • The Whale Event
  • The Celebration


Skills Addressed

Decodable Readers Volume 2 covers:

  • r-controlled vowel words
  • vowel combinations
K–5 225.05 —
700510-WX Small Whiteboard (5 pack)
1–5 pricing: 27.05
6+ pricing: —
Small Whiteboard (5 pack)

Students build, manipulate and transcribe words on these sturdy, dry-erase whiteboards during word-building activities.

Two sizes are available: Small (11" x 7 ¾") and Large (15 ¾" x 11").


 K–5 27.05 —
8863-WX Large Whiteboard (1 pack)
1–5 pricing: 9.05
6+ pricing: 6.35
Large Whiteboard (1 pack)

Students build, manipulate and transcribe words on these sturdy, dry-erase whiteboards during word-building activities.

Two sizes are available: Small (11" x 7 ¾") and Large (15 ¾" x 11").


 K–5 9.05 6.35
8822-WX Touchphonics Storage System A (stores 2-3 Touch-unit sets)
1–5 pricing: 31.20
6+ pricing: —
Touchphonics Storage System A (stores 2-3 Touch-unit sets)

Tested in classrooms nationwide, the new Touch-unit storage system helps to minimize organization time and maximize instruction time!

Storage system A dimensions are 20" L x 6 3/8" W x 15 13/16" H. Storaage System B is comprised of two Storage System A units.

  • Individual drawers allow teachers quick access to Touch-units—a helpful feature for classroom management
  • Drawers can be removed from the unit, allowing teachers to pull what’s needed and keep instructional workspace uncluttered
  • Durable plastic drawers stand up to heavy classroom use and resist breaking.


 Ungraded 31.20 —
8823-WX Touchphonics Storage System B (stores 5-8 Touch-unit sets)
1–5 pricing: 62.40
6+ pricing: —
Touchphonics Storage System B (stores 5-8 Touch-unit sets)

Tested in classrooms nationwide, the new Touch-unit storage system helps to minimize organization time and maximize instruction time!

Storage system A dimensions are 20" L x 6 3/8" W x 15 13/16" H. Storaage System B is comprised of two Storage System A units.

  • Individual drawers allow teachers quick access to Touch-units—a helpful feature for classroom management
  • Drawers can be removed from the unit, allowing teachers to pull what’s needed and keep instructional workspace uncluttered
  • Durable plastic drawers stand up to heavy classroom use and resist breaking.


 Ungraded 62.40 —
8827-WX One-on-One Kit (1 student)
1–5 pricing: 135.00
6+ pricing: —
One-on-One Kit (1 student)

Choking Hazard-Small parts.

For use with an individual student. Includes:
• 1 Touch-Units Set
• 1 Teacher's Guide
• 1 Student Workbook
• Storage System A


K–5 135.00 —
8828-WX Small Group Kit (2 students)
1–5 pricing: 299.00
6+ pricing: —
Small Group Kit (2 students)

Choking Hazard-Small parts.

For use with 2 students. Includes:
• 2 Touch-Units Sets
• 1 Teacher's Guide
• 2 Student Workbooks
• 1 Blackline Decodable Readers
• Storage System A


K–5 299.00 —
8829-WX Large Group Kit (5 students)
1–5 pricing: 650.00
6+ pricing: —
Large Group Kit (5 students)

Choking Hazard-Small parts.

For use with 5 students. Includes:
• 5 Touch-Units Sets
• 1 Teacher's Guide
• 5 Student Workbooks
• 1 Blackline Decodable Readers
• 5 Small Whiteboards
• 1 Large Whiteboard
• Storage System B


K–5 650.00 —
8830-WX Small Group Kit + Magtile Kit
1–5 pricing: 449.00
6+ pricing: —
Small Group Kit + Magtile Kit

Choking Hazard-Small parts.

For use with 2 students. Includes:
• 2 Touch-Units Sets
• 1 Teacher's Guide
• 2 Student Workbooks
• 1 Blackline Decodable Readers
• Storage System A
• Magtiles Kit (a $186.40 savings over purchasing separately)


K–5 449.00 —
8831-WX Large Group Kit + Magtile Kit
1–5 pricing: 800.00
6+ pricing: —
Large Group Kit + Magtile Kit

Choking Hazard-Small parts.

For use with 2 students. Includes:
• 5 Touch-Units Sets
• 1 Teacher's Guide
• 5 Student Workbooks
• 1 Blackline Decodable Readers
• 5 Small Whiteboards
• 1 Large Whiteboard
• Storage System B
• Magtiles Kit (a $186.40 savings over purchasing separately)


K–5 800.00 —
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