Structure of the Words + More Program

Words + More offers five routines, each of which contains weekly lesson plans. The routines are designed to introduce grade-level skills and strategies in a structured way. Students progress through the lessons sequentially, in a logical continuum, as the introduction of word patterns, sounds, and reading strategies build upon prerequisite knowledge and relationships.

Routine Targeted Grade Level Number of Weekly Lesson Plans
1 Kindergarten 29
2 1st grade 34
3 2nd grade 34
4 3rd grade 35
5 3rd grade/4th grade 35
Routine Outcomes
1
  • Identify & manipulate letters and sounds
  • Concepts of print awareness
  • Demonstrate early reading behaviors
  • Automatically recognize 25 sight words
2
  • Automatically recognize word patterns and sight words in Routine 2
  • Use reading strategies & decoding skills to read unfamiliar text
  • Demonstrate manipulation of words as in making & breaking words
  • Use reading strategies & decoding skills to read unfamiliar text
  • Use reading strategies & decoding skills to read unfamiliar text
3
  • Automatically recognize Routine 3-word patterns and sight words
  • Demonstrate manipulation of words as in generating word analogies
  • Use reading strategies and decoding skills to read unfamiliar text
4 & 5
  • Recognize and use with automaticity Routine 4-word patterns and sight words
  • Demonstrate use of syllable division to decode longer words
  • Identify parts of speech to improve grammar usage
  • Improve cursive handwriting