Explode The Code

Explode The Code® has helped millions of students build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling. Explode The Code® is a research-based, multisensory program geared to improving literacy with direct, systematic, phonics instruction. Explode The Code's classic print program includes a sequence of skills-based student books with coordinating placement tests and instructional support. Creative art and laugh-out-loud sentences appeal to beginning readers of all ages! 

What is the Explode The Code method?

Explode The Code® is a proven Orton-Gillingham based program helping beginning readers gain early literacy skills. Explode The Code® supports multisensory, structured, sequential, cumulative, and flexible instruction. Explode The Code offers a complete systematic phonics program for the elementary grades.

What grade level is Explode The Code?

Explode the Code is designed to provide phonics instruction for students in pre-K to about grade 4.

The Series consists of Get Ready, Get Set and Go for the Code (A Primer for the Explode the Code Series), Explode the Code Books 1 through 8 (Essential Lessons for Phonics Mastery), Explode the Code 1 1/2 through 6 1/2 (Phonics Review & Reinforcement) and Beyond the Code (Develop Comprehension and Reasoning Skills). Workbooks and Teacher Guides are available.

The Explode The Code Difference

  • Research-based, multisensory instruction

  • Abundant practice and reinforcement opportunities for greater retention

  • Development of comprehension skills through reading in context

  • Accommodations for English language learners and struggling readers

Types of exercises include:

  • Visual discrimination

  •  Matching, blending, copying, spelling, and reading

  •   Word building with syllables

  •  Cumulative review

  •  Reading a short story and answering comprehension questions in Books 7 and 8

  • Development of comprehension skills through reading in context

  •  Crossword and word find puzzles in Books 7 and 8. Students blend letter sounds to encode words using phonetic knowledge and sound-symbol relationships

    





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