**A week-by-week, step-by-step instructional guide.**

This timely book offers a clear and structured method for integrating explicit phonics instruction into K–3 classrooms. An essential guide for teaching reading, the book is grounded in the cutting-edge, evidence-based science of reading. It provides a flexible and effective step-by-step progression that covers the essential phonics skills that teachers have been asking for, and addresses the needs of busy, diverse classrooms. This blueprint to effective instruction explores screening, assessment, and intervention, as well as working with English language learners. Tools for implementation include high-impact activities, lesson templates, word lists, phoneme-grapheme grids, word ladders, and more.

Reviews:
"…the perfect support for both teacher candidates and practicing teachers…a program that is simple to implement, but not simple in content…" — Danielle Neer, Teacher, BCSD23, for Canadian Journal of Education