Replace ineffective drills with easy-to-do games and activities that fit into any teacher's busy day and help striving adolescent readers achieve automaticity in decoding the six basic English syllable patterns. Carver and Pantoja's flexible approach can be used with intensive and regular reading classes, as well as language arts classes at intermediate, middle-school, or high-school levels. Easily differentiate instruction in any classroom where literacy is the goal and time is short.

Lin Carver is a professor at Walden University in the master's Early Reading and Literacy program. She also serves as the reading specialist at Gulf Middle School in New Port Richey, Florida and the Online Facilitator for Florida Online Reading Professional Development at the University of Central Florida. Lin has been an educator for more than 30 years and has certifications in elementary 1-6, primary education K-3, reading K-12, ESOL K-12, and English 5-9, and has a gifted endorsement. She earned her Ph.D. in Literacy from Walden University.