SUPPLEMENTAL CURRICULUM FOR PHONICS AND SPELLING

Phonics Shed Digital Bundle - Play and Assess includes digital access to Phonics Shed games, progress/data monitoring, and assessments. As an added bonus, you also get full access to Spelling Shed and its online games, progress/data monitoring, and assessments. The bundle is ideal for supplemental spelling and phonics practice, for tracking and assessing progress, and for in-person or remote learning.

While Phonics Shed focuses on phoneme-grapheme pairs in isolation, Spelling Shed builds upon the phonics progression, and its word lists gradually begin to include words similar graphemes and/or phonemes, to help with comparison, review, and retention. Phonics Shed delivers targeted practice and Spelling Shed allows for the application of that practice. The marriage of Phonics Shed and Spelling Shed Digital has created a powerful tool for practicing the essential building blocks of reading, which rely on the integration of phonics and spelling. This powerful tool is also crucial in the ability to collect and use insightful data to recognize patterns and address deficits by providing personalized, targeted practice.

Phonics Shed Digital Access

Phonics Shed Digital provides supplemental practice, insightful supportive data, and essential assessment tools for the Phonics Shed Core Curriculum. The curriculum includes 110 phoneme-grapheme correspondences that are placed in a systematic progression. The curriculum was designed so that phoneme/grapheme pairs could be practiced in isolation. Phonics Shed Digital practice and assessments can easily integrate with other phonics programs and progressions as a supplemental resource to help fill gaps as needed, and provide constructive insights through intelligent data collection. To learn more about Phonics Shed Core Curriculum, including multi-sensory learning, daily lesson plans, original stories, decodables, and more, click below.

More About Phonics

Spelling Shed Digital Access

Spelling Shed has a progression of word lists for K-5 that are built on a foundation of phonics patterns and follow a similar sequence as Phonics Shed. The word lists cover a range of phonics skills, high-frequency words, and morphological awareness, typically addressed in each grade level. At the beginning of each grade level, there is an intentional spiral review of previously taught skills, but they also include words of increasing difficulty. Throughout the progression, new and more advanced concepts/skills are delicately intertwined within the review. This aids in linking past learning to the new concept/skill and to reinforce and solidify learning. To learn more about Spelling Shed, click below.

More About Spelling

Both Phonics Shed and Spelling Shed have curriculum and practice games that are aligned with the Science of Reading. Research has shown that phonics and spelling are deeply intertwined and are essential skills that help support reading. Learning to read relies on much of the same underlying knowledge—such as the relationships between letters and sounds—and, not surprisingly, that spelling instruction can be designed to help children better understand that key knowledge, resulting in better reading (Moats, 2005; Ehri, 2000). Because of the important connection between phonics and spelling, we have included Spelling Shed together with Phonics Shed to help students gain a solid foundation in the process of becoming better readers. To learn more about the Science or Reading or how Spelling Shed represents the 'Science of Spelling', visit our learn more pages.

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Play

Spelling Shed and Phonics Shed Core Curriculum are supported by a wide range of online games that allow practice and reinforcement of phonics and spelling skills.

Phonics Shed Digital

Phonics Shed Digital grants access to targeted phonics practice through a variety of different games to support purposeful play. Games incorporate practice with identifying and distinguishing sounds, work at your own pace learning, blending and segmenting sounds, identifying target graphemes/phonemes, matching sounds to graphemes/words, and some spelling. In addition, teachers have access to a digital version of the phoneme/grapheme and high-frequency word flashcards to practice on the screen with students.

Once logged in, children navigate their way through the interactive Phonics Shed Garden completing games as they travel from pre-reading skills sequentially through more challenging grapheme-phoneme correspondence activities. Many games include phonological awareness elements (from Phonics Shed Core Curriculum, Chapter 1) that involve exploring, identifying, and distinguishing sounds from one another, such as our Soundboard tool. The rest of the games involve various ways of practicing blending, segmenting, and identifying the 110 phoneme-grapheme pairs in isolation and within words.

Games support the learning progression of each phoneme-grapheme correspondence in a variety of ways. Children can access the games as part of in-class phonics teaching, be incorporated into a rotation of centers, and/or be used as independent online activities, which can be played in school or at home.

Spelling Shed Digital

Spelling Shed Digital has a variety of engaging games designed to promote word inquiry, increase word study skills, build and utilize phoneme-grapheme correspondence, enhance morphological awareness, and expand vocabulary acquisition.

Our digital platform offers a variety of learning games to maintain student engagement. Students are able to play live games (Hive games) with each other, challenge others to games, earn rewards, monitor their own progress, and even check their ranking with others across the world. Teachers can use Spelling Shed for whole class learning, small group instruction, independent practice, or as a remote learning tool.

Our spelling games provide differentiation through student choice, and they have the opportunity to practice with an amount of support that they feel comfortable with. The levels range from Easy to Extreme, and as the child progresses through each level, the amount of support they receive will become less and less. Students quickly learn that with higher levels, comes higher rewards, and often are easily encouraged to challenge themselves.

One unique feature of our games is that it allows students to build and spell words with graphemes. This encoding process helps to map graphemes in spellings to phonemes in pronunciations, stores words in long-term memory, strengthens the ability to decode new, unfamiliar words, and develops automaticity. In addition to this unique feature, we also still have the option to spell letter by letter.hey receive will become less and less. Students quickly learn that with higher levels, comes higher rewards, and often are easily encouraged to challenge themselves.

Assessment & Data

Phonics Shed Digital Bundle

Phonics Shed Digital Bundle provides an assessment tracking system which will make formal and informal assessments of children's proficiency in phonics and spelling more efficient and contribute to the the ability to fully personalize content for individual needs.

Phonics Shed Digital

The Phonics Shed data system assists to inform your planning, enabled by the flexible and targeted nature of the Phonics Shed program. Because the phoneme-grapheme pairs are structured to practice in isolation, you can easily use our progression to inform your instruction, or pick and choose based on the needs of your children.

We provide two summative assessment tools in the form of an online flashcard screening tool. One option allows you to assess phoneme/grapheme pairs in isolation, and the other allows you to assess phoneme/grapheme pairs within words. At the relevant points in the children's progression, teachers can use our flashcard assessment tool to screen children against the phoneme-grapheme pairs they have learned.

Our digital tracking system allows you to note the conclusions drawn from observational assessments, quickly and effectively, and our games provide performance data that help to provide more clarity of students' abilities. The games track each child's performance and give teachers additional information on their activity and acquisition of skills.

These elements are combined in the children's online data dashboard, allowing teachers to see, at a glance, an overview of a group or an individual child's progress. The dashboard allows teachers to have an overview of each child's assessment and proficiency data, which they can add to or adjust manually, if they have screening data from outside of our system. The grid shows a snapshot of competence versus individual phoneme-grapheme pairs and allows for easy identification of children needing further support as well as whole-class review lessons as needed.

Spelling Shed Digital

Spelling Shed tracks student game plays along with their responses. Data is provided at the student level that demonstrates the students proficiency over time with a particular skill. Teachers can monitor weekly activity in order to advance or remediate as needed.

Teachers can monitor assigned activity progress of the group or individual students through our data portal. Students have an Assignment Rank for each assignment that represents competence. Spelling Shed calculates the Assignment Rank score by multiplying the last 5 (or less) games by the average % correct and average difficulty of those games. This score reflects students' learning over time and helps build automaticity to make words really stick.

Our Hive Game is a live multiplayer game that can be used as a spelling assessment, or just played for fun! Teachers and students can initiate a game and others receive a code to play. The Hive results data makes it easy for teachers and parents to identify particular misconceptions that a child may have with a specific pattern.