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.
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!
Students will discriminate between word pairs and similar sounds
Students will create rhyme pairs
Students will recognize that phrases and sentences are made up of individual words
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Word Comparison: Same/Different with Word Pairs
Objective: Students will identify whether two spoken words with similar beginning or ending sounds are the same or different.
Continuation to rhyme and rhyme cards
Objective: Students will match cards that rhyme and create new rhymes.
Sentence Segmentation
Objective: Students will recognize that phrases and sentences are made up of individual words
Letter sounds are produced in a variety of ways. Stops are produced by completely stopping the air flow from your mouth, then releasing it quickly. Air flows from your lungs and you stop it with your lips, then release it. Correctly producing the letter sound for "T" and the letter sound for "D" requires that we do not add an /u/ sound at the end to create "tu" or "du." This website allows you to click on each sound and hear the correct articulation: https://us.letterland.com/letter-sounds
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.
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
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.3.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
Letter - Keyword - Sound
Sound Quick Drill
Echo & Find Letters
Sky Write / Letter Formation
Echo / Letter Formation
Student Notebook (tracing)
Trick Words
Trick Word Practice
Sound Dictation