Prevention and Intervention
Many students move into older grades without the
reading skills they need to independently digest the
complex text they must read in order to succeed
academically. Teachers cannot hand them a
textbook and say, “Read chapter 9 for tomorrow,”
because these students lack the ability to read
accurately and fluently. HD Word helps resolve this
problem. When taught in grades 2-4, HD Word is
considered prevention, or early intervention. HD Word
instruction can get these students on the right track for
successful decoding before they reach middle school.
When taught in older grades, HD Word is considered
intervention. The instruction can fill in gaps in students’
phonics knowledge and make up for poor or no
phonics instruction in the earlier grades. Either way,
HD Word builds the skills that students need to become
college ready, sought after employees, and lifelong
learners.
Daily Supplement or Intensive
Intervention
HD Word is a set of lessons that efficiently
teaches the foundational skills that lead
to strong decoding and fluent reading.
Great for RTI
rate of transfer to students’ skills in
HD Word fits into Tier 1, Tier 2, or Tier 3 of a school’s
RTI program, depending on the grades and deficit
levels of the students. It contains all the necessary
components of a great RTI program, including
accurate identification of initial deficits, targeted
instruction, progress monitoring, and reporting.
HD Word instruction moves fast and can often be
completed in just 16-33 weeks. It is appropriate to
use with ELL students who need to learn the more
advanced components of the English language. It
is not designed for Special Education or for students
that are cognitively delayed; some of Really Great
Reading’s other programs (Phonics Boost and Phonics
Blitz) are ideal for those students.
other areas of reading, such as fluency
Time Spent on Real Reading
and comprehension. The net effect
In these lessons, students are really reading. HD Word
students use engaging and effective multisensory
techniques, including the best phonics manipulatives
on the market, in every lesson; however, there is also
a lot time where the manipulatives are put away and
students spend time with black ink on white paper.
Students read both decodable and authentic texts,
the combination of which is critical for transferring skills
to the classroom.
The lessons systematically teach the
essential phonics structures that unlock
the English code in both simple and
complex words. While the focus of
HD Word is word study (phonics and
phonemic awareness), there is a high
is faster, more accurate, and more
confident readers. The following sections
explain the philosophy, structure, and
instructional approach of HD Word.
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Most schools use HD Word as a daily supplement to
their existing literacy instruction. It provides the extra
instruction that most students need yet many do not
get. HD Word has 33 units, which are comprised of five
daily lessons. Each lesson is designed to be about 1520 minutes long, so teaching the program is a weekly
commitment of just 75-100 minutes.
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Make a Difference, Even if You’re
Not a Reading Teacher
For Elementary, Middle, or High
School Students
Even though the lessons can be started as early as the beginning of 2nd grade, they go well beyond 2nd grade skills and
provide students with the functional strategies they need to
effortlessly and efficiently read and spell unfamiliar, complex
words like splendid, limitless, engagement, and opportunities.
HD Word provides three different levels of practice: Foundations
is for younger students, Essentials is for adolescents, and Linguistics is for older students. HD Word offers these levels because
older students don’t want to practice only with words like picnic,
pumpkin, and dragon, and younger students can’t yet practice
with words like impromptu, subtropical, and decompose.
Systematic, Explicit, Multisensory
Research suggests that reading instruction is most effective
when it is systematic, explicit, and multisensory. HD Word is
all three.
Systematic HD Word follows a detailed scope and
sequence that systematically progresses from simple to
more complex concepts. The lessons are cumulative and carefully designed so that students are taught all skills necessary to
decode the words that they encounter when they are reading
controlled text.
Explicit HD Word lessons provide explicit instruction,
and all concepts are explained in a way that students
can easily understand, including visually through engaging online animations. Scaffolded instruction in an “I Do, We Do, You
Do” structure spirals through all components of the lesson to ensure that students are able to observe the teacher modeling the
concept correctly for every task. Students then have various
levels of support until they complete the tasks independently.
Multisensory HD Word lessons are multisensory. Stu-
dents use manipulatives such as color tiles, letter tiles, and
SyllaBoards™ to build words and develop a deep understanding of how sounds are represented by letters. HD Word teachers
use an engaging online teaching tool, HD Word Online, which
streamlines lesson delivery and visually brings concepts to life
with animations and virtual manipulatives.
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There is no experience necessary to teach HD Word. HD Word
can be taught by a wide range of educators – you don’t have
to be a reading specialist to make real gains with students. Ample opportunities for support are provided before the teaching
begins. Animations and special information sections, designed
specifically for educators, are embedded in every lesson to ensure you have a clear understanding of concepts before you
teach them.
Designed by Committed Educators
for Committed Educators
Without strong decoding skills, students often struggle academically. Really Great Reading specializes in helping educators create great decoders. It’s our focus and our passion. Our
flagship line of products is called Phonics Suite, a set of tools
to help schools prevent and remediate decoding issues in students of all ages. Our approach is often used to supplement
early reading instruction with explicit, multisensory phonics instruction (Blast Foundations G1A and HD Word), and we have
great solutions for helping students in upper elementary, middle, or high school who are struggling to read fluently (HD Word,
Phonics Blitz, and Phonics Boost).
Foundational Skill Success
HD Word lessons firmly establish key foundational skills that prep
students for the complex word reading they face in older grades.
Many of these skills are explicitly laid out in state standards.
When lessons are implemented with fidelity, students are prepared to:
• Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly
spelled one-syllable words
• Know spelling-sound correspondences for common
vowel teams
• Decode regularly spelled 2-, 3-, and 4-syllable words with
complex vowel spellings
• Decode words with common prefixes and suffixes
• Identify words with inconsistent but common spellingsound correspondences
• Identify and know the meaning of the most common
prefixes and derivational suffixes
• Decode words with common Latin suffixes
• Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound correspondences, syllabication patterns, and morphology (e.g.,
roots and affixes) to accurately read unfamiliar multisyllabic words in and out of context
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Components of HD Word
Teacher Lesson Plan Book Set (Books 1-2)
(HDLP $225)
Provides teachers with all of the information they need to effectively
present the HD Word lessons. All the lessons are built for the teacher
and include a thorough explanation of the concepts, routines, and
procedures. The lessons are easy to follow and slightly scripted so they
can be taught by a wide range of educators, not just seasoned literacy professionals and phonics specialists. For those unfamiliar with
teaching phonemic awareness and phonics, the lesson plans include
a “What You Need To Know” section for teachers to review prior to
teaching. Visuals of phoneme/grapheme mapping (Build a Word)
and detailed information in special Teacher Notes in the manual provide incremental professional development.
HDLP
Student Workbook Set (Books 1-2)
(HDFSW, HDESW, or HDLSW $19)
HDLSW
HDESW
HDFSW
This set of two books contains all the printed material a student
needs to participate in the lessons. The workbooks contain the
oral reading fluency passages and phonics practice activities that
help students develop mastery and automaticity with key skills. The
activities are engaging and age-appropriate for students in second
grade and above. There are three levels of workbooks to choose
from: Foundations (Grades 2-5), Essentials (Grades 5-8), and Linguistics (Grades 8-12).
HD Word Online
(HDOL $95 annually)
HDOL
This online component brings the lessons to life. Teachers have everything they need at their fingertips to help make phonics concepts
obvious to students. Explicit animations help teachers deliver concise,
precise, and fluent instruction with no prep time. Virtual manipulatives
engage the students in deeper learning. When the instruction incorporates this visual component paired with the student manipulative
kits, students learn and retain concepts faster and more effectively.
HD Word has annual and six month subscription options to meet individual teaching needs.
HD Word Kit
(HDKIT $60)
HDKIT
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The HD Word Kit provides the vehicle for effective multisensory phonics instruction. Students learn concepts faster and retain them better
when they use the manipulative kits. The kits include the letter tiles, color tiles, SyllaBoards™, and other components needed to complete all
33 units. Note: If students participated in Blast Foundations G1A, the HD
Word Kit upgrade (HDUP $18) will supplement the Blast Student Kit with
additional tiles so it can be used to complete all lessons in HD Word.
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Structure of Units and Lessons
Just 15–20 minutes a day,
5 days a week!
HD Word has 33 units, each with
five daily lessons. Each lesson keeps
students actively engaged in the
learning process with multisensory
teaching. Lessons are designed to be
completed in 15-20 minute sessions. In
one week, students are immersed in
75-100 minutes of explicit foundational
skills instruction.
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Lesson 1 (Monday)
15–20 minutes
Oral Reading Fluency / Comprehension
In the first lesson of the week, students are given the opportunity to practice their Oral Reading skills by reading aloud
from expository texts. At the same time, their classmates gain
valuable reading skills as they listen to their classmates read
aloud and identify errors. The students’ goal in Oral Reading is
to read with an accuracy rate of 98% or higher. When students
read accurately, their comprehension improves because they
are correctly interpreting the words on the page. Comprehension questions are included beginning in Unit 21 of the Student
Workbooks to encourage students to not only read accurately
but to also pay attention to what they are reading.
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15–20 minutes
Lesson 2 (Tuesday)
Phonemic Awareness
The phonemic awareness component of HD Word (Units
1-20) involves various skill-building activities, such as segmenting, blending, and manipulating phonemes. These core skills
are taught and practiced in a high-impact, engaging, and multisensory manner. The phonemic awareness instruction is pure;
students concentrate on speech sounds without linking them to
letters or spellings. There is a strong focus on vowel phonemes,
which helps promote reading and spelling success.
3&4
Lessons 3 & 4 (Wednesday
15–20 minutes each
& Thursday)
Phonics Concept – Days 1 & 2
The phonics concept lessons of HD Word build from simple
concepts (digraphs, blends) to progressively more complex
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concepts about word structure (advanced vowel spellings,
multisyllabic words, inflectional endings, all six syllable types).
Most concepts are taught at a single-syllable level prior to
advancing on to multisyllabic words. By Unit 14 of HD Word,
students are reading multisyllabic words like absorbent,
repeatedly, and inanimate. By Unit 26, students are reading
words like entanglement, prescription, and humorously. By the
last unit, students are reading words like programmable, predominate, and coincidence. Younger students learn the same
concepts and develop the same skills while practicing with
more age-appropriate words, such as fantastic, repeating,
untidy, detective, thermometer, and celebration. Extension
activities built into many of the lessons provide an additional
layer of practice and challenge for students who need it.
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15–20 minutes
Lesson 5 (Friday)
Student Practice
Each unit has a series of high-impact practice activities that focus on the phonics concepts taught. The practice
is cumulative and controlled. Students only practice with
the items that have been explicitly taught, as well as with
words from the Dolch 220 high frequency word list. These activities include Detective Work, Word Sorts, and Phrase and
Sentence Reading. Each student reads aloud several times
during each lesson so the teacher can provide immediate
feedback through Positive Error Correction. These activities
allow teachers to see who has mastered the concepts and
who needs more help. Additional, optional activities, including homework, are also included in HD Word for students who
require more practice.
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HD Word Scope and Sequence
Unit
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3 & 4
Lesson 5
Book
1
Oral Reading
Practice
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics Concepts Days 1 & 2
Student Practice
1
2
• Short Vowel Phonemes:
Segmenting and
Blending
• Reading Single-Syllable Closed Syllable
Words containing 2-Sound Blends and
Digraph Blends
3
• Short Vowel Phonemes:
Segmenting, Blending,
and Manipulating
• Reading Single-Syllable Closed Syllable
Words containing Trigraphs and 3-Sound
Blends
4
• Short Vowel Phonemes:
Segmenting and
Blending
• Reading 2- and 3-Syllable Words,
constrained to Closed Syllables
5
• Short and Long Vowel
Phonemes: Segmenting
and Blending
6
7
8
9
10
11
6
• Introduction to HD Word
• Reading Single-Syllable Closed Syllable
• Definition of a Phoneme
Words
• Demonstrate
• Short Vowel Phonemes
the importance
• Reading Single-Syllable Closed Syllable
• Segmenting of Phonemes
of reading
Words with Digraphs
accurately
Each unit from
2-32 begins
with three oneminute timed oral
readings.
Students chart
their accuracy
percentage and
words correct per
minute (WCPM).
The goal is to
reach at least
98% accuracy
regularly and then
to improve WCPM.
The Oral Reading
Fluency lesson
at the beginning
of each unit
lets the teacher
and students
know if HD Word
instruction is
transferring to
nondecodable
reading at a
selected grade
level.
• Sounds of Schwa
• Short and Long Vowel
Phonemes: Segmenting
and Blending
• Short and Long Vowel
Phonemes: Segmenting
and Blending
• Short and Long Vowel
Phonemes: Segmenting
and Blending
• Short and Long Vowel
Phonemes: Segmenting
and Blending
• R-Controlled Phonemes:
/ar/ and /or/
12
• R-Controlled Phonemes:
/ar/ and /or/
13
• R-Controlled Phoneme:
/er/
14
• Cumulative Review:
Long, Short, and
R-Controlled Vowels
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• Reading Single-Syllable Open Syllable
Words
• Reading 2- and 3-Syllable Words,
constrained to Closed and Open Syllables
Each unit finishes
with student practice
where students
complete four
practice activities
designed to target
the concepts taught
in the unit.
The student practice
activities include:
• Word Sort
• Schwa in 2-, 3- and 4-Syllable Words,
constrained to Closed and Open Syllables
• Detective Work
• Phrase reading
(Foundations
only)
• Reading Single-Syllable VCE Words
• Reading 2-, 3- and 4-Syllable Words,
constrained to Closed, Open, and VCE
Syllables
• Reading 2-Syllable Words containing VCE
spelling Schwa
• Reading 2-, 3- and 4-Syllable Words,
constrained to Closed, Open, and VCE
Syllables (with and without Schwa)
• Most Common Long Vowel Spellings: long
a (ai, ay), long e (ee, ea), long i (igh), and
long o (ow, oa)
• Less Common Long Vowel Spellings: long e
(ie, ey)
• Cumulative Review of Vowel Team
Spellings (Long Vowels)
• Reading 1 – 3-Syllable Words containing
/or/ spelled or and /ar/ spelled ar
• Reading 1 – 3-Syllable Words containing
/or/ spelled or, our, ore, oor, and oar
• Reading 1 – 3-Syllable Words containing
/r/ spelled ar, are, air, and ear
• Sentence reading
• Optional
extension activity
In the Student
Practice activities,
students are
presented with words
that are decodable
according to the
HD Word Scope &
Sequence, as well as
words from the Dolch
220 sight word list.
It is cumulative and
controlled.
Also included in each
Lesson 5 is an optional
extension activity.
These activities help
students further
practice the concepts
taught in that unit.
• Reading 1 – 3-Syllable Words containing
/er/ spelled er, ir, ur, and ear
• Reading 2-, 3-, and 4-Syllable Words
containing /er/ spelled ar and or
• Cumulative Review of R-Controlled Vowel
Phonemes /ar/, /or/, and /er/ in 2-, 3- and
4-Syllable Words
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HD Word Scope and Sequence
Unit
Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3 & 4
Lesson 5
Oral Reading
Practice
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics Concepts Days 1 & 2
Student Practice
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• Other Vowel Phoneme
//, as in ooze
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
// spelled oo, u, u-e, and ew
16
• Other Vowel Phoneme
/oi/, as in oink
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
/oi/ spelled oi and oy
• Other Vowel Phoneme
/ou/, as in ouch
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
/ou/ spelled ou and ow
• Other Vowel Phoneme
//, as in book
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
// spelled oo and u
19
• Other Vowel Phoneme
/aw/, as in awesome
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
/aw/ spelled au and aw
20
• Cumulative Review:
Long, Short, R-Controlled,
and Other Vowels
• Cumulative Review of 1 – 4-Syllable Words
containing Other Vowel Phonemes:
//, /oi/, /ou/, // and /aw/
17
18
The Oral
Reading Fluency
procedure
continues in each
Unit from 2-32.
The Student Practice
activities include:
• Word Sort
• Detective Work
• Phrase reading
(Foundations
only)
• Sentence reading
• Optional
extension activity
Book 2
21
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
Chunks: -ang, -ing, -ong, -ung, -ank, -ink,
-onk, -unk
22
• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words containing
Consonant -le
• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words containing
Latin Endings :-tion, -sion, -ture
(Foundations, Essentials, & Linguistics)
23
• Additional Latin Endings: -cial, -tial
(Essentials & Linguistics); -cious, -tious
(Linguistics)
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words containing
Hard and Soft c and g
24
25
26
The Oral
Reading Fluency
procedure
continues in each
Unit from 2-32.
Beginning in Unit 21,
Lesson 2 provides
students with additional
Oral Reading Fluency
practice and incorporates
comprehension questions
for each passage.
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• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words containing
Consonant Suffixes: -less, -ness, -ment, -ful, -ly
• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words containing
Vowel Suffixes: -es, -ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ous,
-y, -able, -ible
• 1-1-1 Doubling Rule in 2-, 3- and 4-Syllable
Words
• Drop-the-e Spelling Rule in 2-, 3- and
4-Syllable Words
28
• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words with Prefixes:
dis-, con-, un-, im-, in-
29
• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words with Prefixes:
re-, pre-, pro-
30
• Cumulative Review: Reading 2 – 4-Syllable
Words with Suffixes and Prefixes
31
• Reading 1 – 4-Syllable Words with Closed
Syllable Exceptions: ost, old, ild, ind, olt
32
• Reading 2 – 4-Syllable Words with Split
Vowels
33
• Celebration:
Word Sorts
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The Student Practice
activities include:
• Word Sort
• Detective Work
• Phrase reading
(Foundations
only)
• Sentence reading
• Optional
extension activity
• Celebration: Dissect it!
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Materials Necessary for Initial Implementation
Each classroom setup includes one set of
Teacher Guides, one login to HD Word Online,
and ten HD Word Kits. You choose which level of
student workbooks you will be using (depending
on your students’ age and deficit level), and your
setup will include 20 student books at that level.
Foundations
essentials
(HDWF)
$1249
x1
x10
(HDWE)
$1249
Linguistics
(HDWL)
$1249
x1
Choose your level!
or
x 20
Foundations
For students in Grades 2-5 who
have already mastered their
basic decoding skills
or
x 20
x 20
Essentials
For students in Grades 5-8 who
have deficits with advanced
vowels and multisyllabic words
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Linguistics
For students in Grades 8-12 who
have deficits with advanced
vowels and multisyllabic words