When students can recognize letters and sounds, and then sight words with little effort, that ease and confidence is quickly transferred to other, more complex reading skills such as blending, phrasing, etc.
If you too are working on automaticity and are in need of alphabet letter or sound fluency probes, check out this web site that generates them automatically for you!
http://www.interventioncentral.org/teacher-resources/letter-name-fluency-generator
And if you are looking for activities to build towards automaticity, our thematic units are filled with such activities.
