Level C
EPS Phonics PLUS C emphasizes word study via content area vocabulary, while reviewing and expanding upon concepts covered in Level B. Students apply skills to a variety of reading passages, including poems, plays, informational text, and selections that feature the recurring characters of Roberto, Mei, Jamal, and Sue—third grade students.
Phonological Awareness
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Identifying initial, final, and medial consonants and vowels
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Segmenting and blending phonemes
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Recognizing and producing rhyme
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Syllables
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Identifying and blending onset and rime
Fluency
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Automaticity practice
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Repeated readings
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Read-alouds
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Choral reading
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Partner reading and Reader’s Theater
Phonics
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Sound-to-symbol correspondence
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Blending phonemes
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Consonants (initial and final)
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Digraphs and blends (initial and final)
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Short and long vowels
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Vowel digraphs and diphthongs
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r-controlled vowels; y as a vowel; schwa
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Silent letters
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CVC, CVVC and CVCe words
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Decoding multisyllabic words
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Spelling
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Words ending in -le
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Inflectional endings
Vocabulary and Word Analysis
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Using picture and context clues
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High frequency words
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Homophones
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Plural endings, base words
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Prefixes and suffixes
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Compound words
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Open and closed syllables
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Multisyllabic words
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Possessives
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Synonyms and antonyms
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Shades of meaning/multiple meanings
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Latin and Greek roots
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Irregular past tense verbs
Alphabet Awareness
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Alphabetizing (2nd & 3rd letter)
Concepts of Print
Writing
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Words and sentences
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Stories and poems
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Book reports
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Point of view
Comprehension
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Context clues
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Think-alouds and visualization
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Sequencing and predicting
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Following directions
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Literal recall and retelling
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Story structure: beginning-middle-end
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Critical thinking
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KWL
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QAR
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Analogies