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We offer a wide range of free resources to support our series. Some resources, like the Teacher Tip Sheets, are book-specific. Other resources, like our Background Information Sheets, contain general information that can be useful for anyone wanting to expand their structured literacy knowledge, regardless of whether you use SyllaSense or not. These resources are being offered for free download because the more we (as a community of educators) understand our language, the more powerful decodable books can be for our students.
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Yellow Series Teacher Resources
The Yellow Series Teacher Tip Sheets provide specific information about the concepts covered in each step of our Scope and Sequence, as well as practical lesson ideas and word lists for reading and spelling. Each book also has a “pictureless” version, and a 1-page text passage. We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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Green Series Teacher Resources
The Green Series Teacher Tip Sheets provide specific information about the concepts covered in each step of our Scope and Sequence , as well as practical lesson ideas and word lists for reading and spelling. Each book also has a “pictureless” version, and a 1-page text passage. We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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Blue Series Teacher Resources
The Blue Series Teacher Tip Sheets provide specific information about the concepts covered in each step of our Scope and Sequence, as well as practical lesson ideas and word lists for reading and spelling. Each book also has a “pictureless” version, and a 1-page text passage. We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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Teal Series Teacher Resources
The Teal Series Teacher Tip Sheets provide specific information about the concepts covered in each step of our Scope and Sequence, as well as practical lesson ideas and word lists for reading and spelling. Each book also has a “pictureless” version, and a 1-page text passage. We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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Red Series Teacher Resources
The Red Series Teacher Tip Sheets provide specific information about the concepts covered in each step of our Scope and Sequence, as well as practical lesson ideas and word lists for reading and spelling. Each book also has a “pictureless” version, and a 1-page text passage. We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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Purple Series Teacher Resources
The Purple Series Teacher Tip Sheets provide specific information about the concepts covered in each step of our Scope and Sequence, as well as practical lesson ideas and word lists for reading and spelling. Each book also has a “pictureless” version, and a 1-page text passage. We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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DECK-odables Teacher Resources
Our Yellow Series DECK-odable Tip Sheets offer tips and suggestions for teaching the concepts covered in the DECK-odable cards. There are six tip sheets in total, each covering a card range (e.g., cards 81 – 125). We invite you to also review our Background Information Sheets before beginning instruction.
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Background Information Sheets
We currently have background information sheets available for Grapheme/Phoneme Correspondence, Oral Morphology, Morphology, and Orthographic Conventions. Each background sheet provides definitions of key terms and concepts encountered in structured literacy, and ideas and resources for teaching these concepts.
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Informal Assessments
Click below to access draft versions of our informal Grapheme/Phoneme Correspondence Assessment and our Low-Frequency Word Assessment. These assessments are still in draft form, and may be updated as educators provide feedback. As in any informal assessment, there is no standard evaluation criteria.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with feedback to info@syllasense.com if you try these informal assessments with your students.
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Other Resources We Recommend
Spelliosity
Spell With Confidence is a low-prep, high-impact spelling resource grounded in the Science of Reading. With 26 structured lessons, two differentiated word lists, “Interesting Words” (often called “heart words”), and morphological investigations using matrices, it brings orthography, morphology, and etymology into everyday instruction – helping students make sense of spelling and grow into confident, capable writers.