Grade 1

Fundations

 The Fundations program is used throughout the K-2 grade levels and can be extended to grade 3.  It builds students skills with spelling, reading, and comprehension through phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension strategies. Fundations lessons hold a variety of activities that promote these skills through multisensory learning.  The program has recently been altered in order to reflect the Common Core.

Unit Focus- Skills to be taught

Trick Words- Sight words that students should be able to read and spell

Current Words- sample words that fit skills taught

 

NOTE:  The words that are listed below are just a sample of words and not words to be specifically memorized.  The words are based on the

sounds that are introduced in the unit.  You can use these words as practice and create your own that fit the same pattern!!

Unit 1 Focus

- Review of kindergarten basic sounds

- Introduce concepts to be used throughout the year.

Unit 2 Focus

- Phonemic Awareness Skills

- Sound Manipulation (initial, final, medial)

- Blending and reading three-sound short vowel words

- Capitalization, Punctuation (period)

- Story retelling in detail and sequence

Unit 2 Trick Words

the                  a                     and

is                    his                  of

Unit 2 Words

sad                 sat                  sag                 rag                  nod                 bun

rap                  rat                   Meg                leg                  job                  rub

peg                 bet                  yes                  vet                 cop                 sip

nut                  fun                  mug                sub                 sob                 rib

 Unit 3 Focus

- Phoneme Segmentation

- Concept of consonant diagraph, keywords and sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck

- Spelling of -ck at the end of words (sock, lick, etc.)

- Capitalization, Punctuation (question mark)

- Narrative story form: characters, setting, and main events

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

- Retelling with picture notes and visualization

Unit 3 Trick Words

as                   has                 to                     into

we                   he                   she                 be

me                  for                   or                                           

Unit 3 Words

rash                dash               path                math              pack               puck

back               deck               neck               Beth               Seth                duck

shed               lick                  chip                rich                whip               luck

dish                fish                 chin                lock                moth               thud

shot                shop               chop               shock            such               much

Unit 4 Focus

- Bonus Letter Spelling Rule:  ff, ll, ss, & sometimes z 

- Glued Sound: all (call, tall)

- Punctuation:  Explanation Point

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 4 Trick Words

you                  your                I                       they

was                one                 said   Unit 4 Words 

call                mass             wall                 fall                  hall                 much

tall                 mess             yell                  bell                shell               mug

Bess             fell                   hill                   miss              will                  Russ

chill              pill                   hill                   toss                doll                 cuff

off               off                    dot                  cob                miss               fuss

Unit 5 Focus

- Glued Sounds:  am, an

- Proofreading

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 5 Trick Words

from                have               do                   does

Unit 5 Words 

ham                tan                  fan                  Sam               ran                  jam

can                 bam                Nan                pan                 Pam               ban

van                  man                bam                tan                  Jan                 Dan

 Unit 6 Focus

- Baseword and suffix with the suffix -s

- Plural words

- Narrative fictional vs. informational

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 6 Trick Words

 were               are                  who                what               when

where             there               here 

Unit 6 Words

cans               backs             mats               maps             fans                runs

packs             pens               webs              pegs               wets               nuts

necks             bells               lips                 pits                 pills                rugs

chips              fills                  wins               socks             rocks              huffs

dogs               shops              locks              socks             tugs                bugs

 Unit 7 Focus

- Glued sounds:  ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk

- Blending and reading words with ng or nk

- Segmenting and spelling words with ng or nk

- Narrative fiction vs. informational books

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 7 Trick Words

why                 by                    my                   try                    put                  come

two                  too                  very                 also                some

Unit 7 Words

bang               bank               pink                 king               thing              ring

wing                rang               sang               hang              hung               sung

long                sing                fang               honk              lung                hung

gong               think              junk                rink                sink                 thank

tank               chunk             bank               dunk              link                 sank

bunk               Hank              wink                banks            rings              things

songs             lungs             thinks               thanks          chunks           sings

Unit 8 Focus

- Consonant blends and digraph blends

-Blending and reading words with up to four sounds

-Segmenting and spelling words with up to four sounds

-Suffix s added to words with four sounds

- R-controlled vowel sounds for reading support- ar, or, er, ir, ur

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 8 Trick Words

would             could              should                       here

over            number

Unit 8 Words

sent                must                best                lend               loft                  drip

jumps            bend               chest              last                dent                trash

punch             bunch             task               flips              test                ranch

squish            trap                 thump            chimp            small              pump

clams             drops              drips               shrubs          cracks                flags

 Unit 9 Focus

- Closed syllable with short vowels

- Closed syllable vs. open syllable

- Vowel team sounds for reading purpsoses– ai, ay, ee, ea, ey, oi, oy

- Narrative fiction vs. informational books

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 9 Trick Words

say                  says               see                 between                    each

Unit 9 Words

flock                crop                clip             slam                           twig   

shrug             spell               dress             flags                           frogs

plugs              lunch              puffs            drums                         cross

milk                dents              class          still                              steps

 Unit 10 Focus

- Closed syllables with blends (5 sounds only plus suffix, -s)

-Suffixes, -ed, -ing added to unchanging basewords with closed syllables

- Vowel team sounds for- oa, oe, ow, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw

- Narrative fictions vs. informational books

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

Unit 10 Trick Words

any                many              how                now

down              out              about               our

Unit 10 Words

blast               grunt               slump         bank             twist                slant

brings           drinks             slumps          splash          plants             squinted

stinging         slanted          crusted          blended         blasted          drifts

Unit 11 Focus

-Vowel-consonant-e syllable in one-syllable words

-Long vowel sounds

- Narrative fiction vs. informational books

- Reading with accuracy and prosody 

Unit 11 Trick Words 

friend              other               another                      none               nothing

Unit 11 Words

lime                ape                 tide                these            

cube               lane               wide                 cake              

grades            pole                flame             hose     

smiles           globe              shake              tune          

 shapes            caves

Unit 12 Focus

- Multisyllabic words

-Compound words

- Reading and spelling words with two closes syllables or closed and v-e syllables

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

- Paragraph structure

Unit 12 Trick Words

people           month                        little                 been               own

own             want            Mr.             Mrs.

Unit 12 Words

upset              pigpen                        hotrod             tomcat          sunfish           public

reptile           uphill                          dislike            nutmeg         lapdog           sunlit

cobweb          backstop                     backpack       bathtub          napkin          dishpan

bedbug          unzips                        public             panic             tonic              plastic

frantic            picnic                       mistake          whiplash       rosebud          contest

Unit 13 Focus

- Suffix –s, -ing, -ed added to multisyllabic words

- Suffix –es added to basewords with closed syllables

- Reading with accuracy and prosody

- Paragraph structure

Unit 13 Trick Words

work         word               write               being              their

first           look             good            new

Unit 13 Words

bedbugs        dishpans       laptops          invented         mistakes       cupcakes

boxes             foxes         classes         tosses              benches        disrupting

rushes           inches          splashes       dashes          flashes          publishes

Unit 14 Focus

- Review of word structure and concepts

- Review sentence construction and proofreading

- Review narrative vs. informational text

Unit 14 Trick Words

water              called             day                  may                way

Unit 14 Words

call                  taxes              wise               quake             rule                 tune

cobweb          tonic               bedbugs        talented         thrilling           squishes

limited            blended         finishing        blended         cabin              expected