Build Students' Confidence and Skills, One Book at a Time.
As students' begin to master basic reading skills, their confidence and competencies develop. Rigby Focus Forward is built on solid, systematic scaffolding to foster daily successes and long-term confidence.
- Rigby Focus Forward includes one high-interest book a day for students in each group, so that students experience a series of daily triumphs that impact their confidence. Better yet, while your students' confidence builds with each newly finished book, so do their skills.
- Incrementally leveled books systematically accelerate student reading level -- Rigby's early reading expertise "grows up"!
- Group 1 students books concentrate on 1st and early 2nd grade phonics
- Group 2 student books focus on advanced phonics skills and word study elements
- Phonemic awareness occurs as reteaching on the basis of assessment
Developmental phonics matches phonics needs to early reading levels
Developmental phonics matches phonics needs to early reading levels
| Short vowel word families | Silent Letter patterns |
| Long vowel word families | Dipthongs |
| Consonant digraphs | Compound words |
| Consonant blends | Prefixes |
| Long vowel variant spellings | Suffixes |
| Vowel digraphs | Syllabication |
| Final blends | Antonyms, Synonyms |
| Complex vowel patterns | Multiple-meaning words, homophones |
| r-controlled vowels | |
| Based on research by Marcia Invernizzi and Latisha Hayes, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA | |