Teaching · Reading Intervention

Everything on the table
before the student sits down.

A structured literacy lesson runs on prepared materials: review cards, a word list with only taught patterns, dictation items and a text the student can actually decode. Check each item for the decoding, encoding and connected text phases. The checklist works out what is ready in each phase and flags what is still open, a lesson tomorrow with gaps and a text with patterns not taught yet.

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Lessons

The worked example is made up: a lesson tomorrow with three items not ready, one fully prepared and one whose text has patterns not taught yet. Saved on this device only.

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What you get

Teaching · Reading Intervention$5 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A record per lesson: student or group code, date, concept and fifteen preparation checks across decoding, encoding and connected text, each Ready, Not yet or Not this lesson, plus untaught patterns found in the text. Works out readiness per phase and overall; flags items not ready, a lesson today or tomorrow with items open and untaught patterns in the text.
Who it is for
Reading interventionists, special education teachers and tutors preparing structured literacy lessons for one student or a small group.
Format
Browser checklist with a saved record per lesson. Prints one lesson’s checklist, every lesson in a table or a blank checklist; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$5 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Reading Intervention toolkit ($49) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Reading Intervention space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Add the lesson and its concept.
  2. Pull and check decoding materials.
  3. Write the dictation items.
  4. Read the text through for untaught patterns.
  5. Clear the flags before the lesson.

Prepare a lesson

What each phase needs

What each phase needs on the tablePhaseStudents doYou bringDecodingRead sounds, words and sentencesCards, word list, nonsense wordsEncodingSpell sounds, words and a sentenceDictation list, paper or tilesConnected textRead a text and talk about itChecked text, questionsWhat each phase needs on the tableDecodingStudents do: Read sounds, words and sentencesYou bring: Cards, word list, nonsense wordsEncodingStudents do: Spell sounds, words and a sentenceYou bring: Dictation list, paper or tilesConnected textStudents do: Read a text and talk about itYou bring: Checked text, questions
Checking the words and the text against what has been taught is the step that saves the most lesson time.

Built on shared principles

The three phases follow what structured literacy lessons have in common: reading a pattern, spelling it, then meeting it in connected text. The checklist fits programs that organize a lesson in parts or blocks like these, and it reproduces no program’s materials. Caveat is not affiliated with any program publisher.

Why check the text

A decodable text is only decodable for a student who has been taught its patterns. A word with an untaught vowel team forces a guess, which is the habit structured literacy works to replace. Pre-teach the word, read it to the student first or choose another text.

Sources

  1. International Dyslexia Association. Structured literacy: an introductory guide (dyslexiaida.org).
  2. Foorman, B., et al. (2016). Foundational Skills to Support Reading for Understanding in Kindergarten Through 3rd Grade (NCEE 2016-4008). Institute of Education Sciences, What Works Clearinghouse.
  3. Birsh, J. R., and Carreker, S. (Eds.). (2018). Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills (4th ed.). Brookes.
  4. Moats, L. C. (2020). Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teachers (3rd ed.). Brookes.

The worked example is made up. This page is an independent planning aid built on public structured literacy principles. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.