Ready, Set, Read! Kit

38 Skill-based activities for students learning to read and spell

Ready, Set, Read! is a curriculum enrichment package for general and special education students, grades K-5, that easily integrates into any existing reading program.

Features and Benefits

• Provides 38 lessons for learning vowel and consonant sounds, blended sounds, and suffixes
• Covers phonemic awareness, phonics, and sight words
• Includes Ready, Set, Read! Teacher’s Guide, WordMaker, and Word Flip Book  

Whether you’re a teacher or a parent, you’ll love the lesson ideas and games - and children will too. Designed to make learning fun and easy. Contents include:

• Ready, Set, Read! Teacher’s Guide details 38 sequenced skill-sets, using the Word Flip Book and WordMaker, plus original reproducibles as teaching materials.
  • Skill-sets progress in difficulty, from letter recognition to reading subtle letter blends
  • Ongoing assessment reports and progress forms help you document skill development
  • Reproducible worksheets and activities that teach:
    • phonemic awareness
    • understanding print
    • the consonants
    • short vowels
    • blending and decoding 3-letter syllables
    • digraphs and blends
    • long vowels, r-controlled vowels
    • onsets and rimes
    • decodable text (story only has words in spelling patterns that have been taught)
    • and much more!

• Word Flip Book teaches the basics of letter-sounds and short-vowel words, where students learn alphabet letters, blended sounds, and simple two-, three-, and four-letter words.
  
  • Flipping the cards makes more than 2,000 syllables and short-vowel words
    
  • Big 6.4 cm (2 1/2”) letters, bright colours (“green" means go, "red" means stop), no distractions
    
  • Sturdy, high-quality cards never got lost or out of order
    
  • Teach one letter at a time, then blended sounds
    
  • Plastic spiral joins three packs of 8.9cm x 14.6cm (3 1/2” x 5 3/4”) cards: 21 Word-Beginning Single Consonants; 5 Short Vowels; and 19 Word-Ending Single Consonants (plus ff, ll, ss, and zz)
    
  • Complete, easy instructions, kids love “playing the game.”

• WordMaker reinforces and expands upon the Word Flip.
  Spell any word!
  
  • After your student can read words with single consonants and short vowels, move up to Level 2: words with consonant and vowel “blends” and long vowels
    
  • Set contains one 8.9cm x 14.6cm (3 1/2” x 5 3/4”) pack each: 21 Word-Beginning Single Consonants, 32 Word-Beginning Consonant Digraphs and Blends, 44 Vowels (short, long, digraphs, ‘r’-controlled, diphthongs), 19 Word-ending single Consonants, 41 Word-Ending Digraphs, Silent-‘e’ Endings, Suffixes (157 cards)
    
  • Great for word work with onsets and rimes
    
  • Comes with heavy corrugated stand that sets up anywhere
  
  

Includes Teacher's Guide, WordMaker, and three Word Flip Books.
Ready, Set, Read! Teacher’s Guide: by Ellen Shapiro and Judi Kinney, 166 pages, 21.6cm x 28cm (8 1/2” x 11”), spiral bound;
Word Flip spiral-bound; Ring bound WordMaker© 2000