A teacher is planning reading instruction for a small group…
A teacher is planning reading instruction for a small group of students who exhibit the following characteristics. The students can point accurately to words in predictable texts after listening to and following the teacher reading aloud and tracking the text several times using a big book format. The students can identify the beginning and final sounds of simple three-phoneme words presented orally and can sometimes identify a word’s medial sound. The students have developed sound-symbol associations for the majority of consonant sounds and some vowel sounds. The students can read several high-frequency words in simple texts. The students can spell words with an accurate beginning consonant sound and sometimes an accurate final consonant sound. Given these characteristics, the students are most likely beginning to transition to which of the following phases of word reading?