Combined Curriculum

In the general education classroom, students from Kindergarten to grade 3 are using the Fundations curriculum.  To stay aligned, I will be using the Sounds Sensible curriculum's first three steps for phonemic and phonological awareness, and Fundations for phoneme-grapheme relationships, handwriting, and dictation.

Sounds Sensible

The sounds sensible curriculum prepares students to learn to read by introducing the graphemes (letter representations) and phonemes (individual sounds) of the English language.  It also develops phonological awareness skills essential to successful reading, such as rhyming and segmentation.  This year, we will use the first 3 steps of the Sounds Sensible curriculum to get ready to read!

Fundations

The Fundations curriculum prepares students to learn to read by introducing the graphemes (letter representations) and phonemes (individual sounds) of the English language. We will be using the letter formation section to learn how to write letters correctly, and the dictation section to learn how letters combine to form words, phrases, and sentences.

Objectives: 

• Students will learn the cues for and identify the lines on the page: Sky Line, Plane Line, Grass Line, Worm Line

• Students will use tactile, motor-memory, and gross-motor memory to learn letter formation following verbalizations

• Students will learn to form lowercase t 

• Students will solidify the link between a letter, its sound, and its formation

• Students will use sentence frames to understand how to create syntactically correct sentences

Sandards Addressed:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.