A practical companion to universal screening. Identify which phonics skills are secure, pinpoint where students need more support, and plan what to teach next, with flexible grouping tools when you need them.
Help high-frequency words stick with ready-to-use, interactive lessons for 109 Power Words. Connect sounds, spellings, and meaning through explicit teaching routines that support accurate, automatic word reading and spelling.
Make blending practice do more with 225 ready-to-teach lesson sets that weave in spelling and vocabulary, all with a touch of magic. Each lesson includes game cards and independent practice tools to extend and reinforce the learning.
Your curriculum provides the foundation. Our tools add targeted assessment, explicit teaching routines, and meaningful practice, all designed to help you teach with greater confidence and flexibility.
Assessment & next-step planning
The Decoding Inventory for Growth (D.I.G.)
Clear insights. Flexible next steps.
A practical complement to universal screening, this teacher-administered diagnostic phonics assessment helps you identify which skills are secure, and which readers need more support and where.
D.I.G. flexes with your needs. Assess the students you choose. Focus on the skills you need. Revisit as often as instruction calls for.
Built for teachers who want an assessment that actually informs instruction.
Bring sounds, spellings, and meaning together with ready-to-use, interactive lessons for 109 Power Words. A consistent ten-step routine supports orthographic mapping as students explore how each word works and practice reading, spelling, and using it.
A free orthographic mapping mini-course explores the science behind how words become stored in long-term memory, and what that means for instruction.
Help students move from knowing sound-spelling relationships to reading words with greater ease. Blending Magic offers 225 ready-to-teach lesson sets that connect systematic blending practice with spelling, vocabulary, and meaning, all with a touch of magic.
Interactive Slideshow Lessons guide instruction, while Student Practice Pages, Student Practice Books (Magic Books), and Student Game Cards extend practice. Choose the lessons that fit your students’ needs and weave them into the phonics instruction you already provide.
Use the one-page overview to compare where each product fits, or talk with us about the instructional need your teachers are trying to solve. You do not have to decide which tool is right before you contact us.
Maggie Thoreson, our Professional Development Specialist, helps schools and districts with bulk enrollment in our online classes, custom classes, and more. Tell her a little about what you have in mind, and she will reach out.