Since the first edition of STEPS, we've taught hundreds of teachers and impacted thousands of students. We've spent hours across the tutoring table from kids and adults who've taught us even more about the inter-relationships between phonemic awareness and phonics. The new binder Edition of STEPS contains even more specific directions to show you how to help kids across that bridge between just knowing sounds and using them to decode and spell. This new edition adds the component of fluency. In STEPS, fluency begins with sound fluency, teaching students to know the sounds to automaticity. Then we layer on blending fluency so that students learn to quickly decode using nonsense words. There are new directions for using the WISE Guide section of the student Log to help students build their sight word vocabulary. Finally, we've included measures to help you build and measure text fluency with your students. Benchmarks along the way help you be sure your knowledge is on track.

With all these fabulous changes in mind, we've bundled the new STEPS Teacher Manual with a year's subscription to STEPS Online Professional Development and STEPS Teacher Resources. STEPS Professional Development gives you step by step directions for how to teach each STEP. Your Teacher Manual binder is recreated here, but with the terrific ability to be interactive. Read a description about how to teach a skill and then click on the link to see a real person in a real class teaching that skill. Confused about exactly what wording to use? Click on the links to hear the sounds within your reading. Even if you are an experienced STEPS teacher, you'll find things here to refine your skills and tools to make your teaching more clear and efficient.

Your free yearlong subscription to STEPS Teacher Resources will provide you with all the teacher tools you need to make your lessons come alive. There are games, worksheets, ideas for extending lessons, and templates for modeling on whiteboards or computer projections.

If you are brand new to STEPS, you'll love the thorough STEP by STEP directions ready to be by your side throughout your first year of STEPS. Within this community of STEPS teachers, you'll have support at your fingertips. Answers to your questions are just a click away.

Don't wait! Order STEPS Online Professional Development and we'll ship your STEPS Teacher Manual right out to you!