This tried-and-true drill book has been helping students read well for over 50 years! Use it alongside other reading programs as a supplement to increase fluency, or with the Teacher Guide as a stand-alone phonics program. A knowledge of all letter sounds before beginning is important, but you could use the Victory Pre-Drill Book to accomplish this task. Front pages of the book outline the methodology, phonetic rules, victory vowel chart, spelling rules, terms to know, and syllable types. Then comes the drill pages with lists of words in columns, organized by phonetic relationships and increasing in difficulty as the book progresses. Eventually, students will be timed for 1 minute, competing against themselves to try and beat their previous times. A chart suggests how many words per minute to aim for depending on grade level, but teachers may decide how best to challenge students. Recording sheets are found in the Teacher’s Guide, along with guidance for introducing each concept as you work through the book. The Victory Drill Book Worksheets (purchased separately) provide extra pencil-and-paper practice for each page in the book. With consistent practice of a few minutes a day, students can develop fluency and the ability to sound out words rapidly!
Victory Drill Book, Third Edition
Product Overview
- Systematic phonics instruction for an individual or classroom setting
- Use for beginning, struggling, or growing readers!
- Helps students to rapidly progress in skills
Description
The key to the Victory Drill Book's effectiveness is that lists of words are strategically grouped together by phonetic sounds. As the sounds are mastered, students become progressively better prepared for paragraph reading. In the process, an emphasis on speed enhances the transition from "sounding out" to efficient reading.
The Victory Drill Book offers an immediate edge in developing those life-shaping skills by providing a systematic approach to high speed phonetic reading. Designed for either a total-class or individualized approach, the Victory Drill Book is as effective in a home-school setting as in a structured classroom, producing outcomes that will help ensure students' ongoing success in every other segment of their education.
The idea is to have the child repeat the drill every day until she is reading at or beyond grade level. This can be pretty challenging, especially at the onset of reading. Occasional review pages combine words with similar constructs, and pages with paragraphs for practice reading are also included.
We have found this to be a most useful vehicle for taking the children from decoding to reading. Until a child is able to decode words at some level of speed, it is difficult to have them read for meaning. By the time they reach the end of even a short sentence, the meaning may be lost. Not always enjoyable, some skills just require practice, practice, practice! A child just beginning to read may need to start out with just a column or two per page as an entire page may be too taxing. The print is large and easy to read. Drills only take a minute or two, but will greatly help the young reader sharpen her decoding skills.
The phonics worksheets (150 pages) are a good supplement. The sheets include page numbers that correspond to the page on which the phonics skill is practiced in the Victory Drill Book.
The Victory Pre-Drill Book is for use by beginning students. It provides high-speed handwriting practice of the alphabet and correct pronunciation of phonetic letters and letter combinations before students proceed to the Victory Drill Book. The newly revised (now spiral-bound) VDB Teacher's Guide provides direction for page-by-page use of the Victory Drill Book. It presents a sequential presentation of phonetic instruction corresponding to the Victory Drill Book sequence. A CD is also available to help both you and your student hear the correct phonetic sounds of letters and letter combinations. The CD corresponds to the presentation of sounds in the Victory Drill Book.| Product Format: | Jacketed Hardcover Book |
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| Grades: | K-8 |
| Brand: | Victory Drill Book |
| Author: | Andrea Carstensen |
| ISBN: | 9781607023197 |
| Length in Inches: | 9.5 |
| Width in Inches: | 7.875 |
| Height in Inches: | 0.5 |
| Weight in Pounds: | 0.95 |