SIPPS
SIPPS is an acronym for Systematic Instruction in Phonics, Phonemic awareness, and Sight words. All first and second graders participate in SIPPS.
The SIPPS program is a multilevel program that develops the words-recognition strategies and skills that enable student to become independent and confident readers and writers.
SIPPS levels are grouped as Beginning, Extension, and Challenge. Each level has benchmarks that are specific to that level.
In the Beginning and Extension levels, each lesson has phonemic awareness, phonics, sight words, and spelling. These two levels also have stories that include sight words and phonics rules specific to each week’s lesson. Students take home copies of these stories to read to someone as they practice being fluent readers.
In SIPPS Challenge level, students review all vowel combinations and learn how to read syllables and the meaning of many of them. This helps students decode and read words with more than one syllable. This level also has a spelling component aimed at encouraging kids to think of each syllable as they spell.
Please contact your child’s teacher or the Title 1 teachers, Mrs. Rebecca Ascherl and Mrs. Miller, with questions about this program.