Kindergarten

• Phonemic Awareness

  • Isolating beginning sounds

  • Isolating medial sounds

  • Isolating final sounds

  • Segmenting phonemes

  • Blending words 

Phonics

• Letter-Keyword- Sound Drill

• Tapping an reading nonsense words and real words

1st Grade

• Word solving strategies

  • one-to-one correspondence

  • Eagle Eye - using the picture to help figure out unknown words

  • cross-checking between the picture and first letter in the word

• Phonemic awareness and Phonics

  • Letter-keyword sound quick drills

  • Nonsense Word Fluency

  • Oral Reading Fluency

  • Tapping out for reading and spelling

    • cvc words

    • Digraphs: ch, sh, th, wh, ck

    • glued sounds (am, an, all, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk)

    • Suffix -s

    • Blends and digraph blends (bl, pl, tr, dr, shr, -nch, -nd, -nt)

• Comprehension

  • • Finding evidence in the pictures

    • Retelling: Using retelling hand with First, Then, Next, Finally

2nd Grade

• Sight words - practicing 3 words a week with heart words and multi-sensory activities

• Phonemic awareness and Phonics

  • digraphs - wh, ph, ch, sh, th, ck

  • Blends (bl, st, sp, -nt, nd, mp)

  • triple blends (str, spr)

  • digraph blends (thr, shr, -nch)

  • Glued sounds ( all, an, am, ank, ink, onk, unk, ang, ing, ong, ung)

  • Suffixes (-s, -es, -er, -est, -ed, -ing)

  • Multisyllable words with Vce and other syllable types (baseball, complete, expire etc.)

• Word Solving strategies

  • chunking- finding little words and base words inside of bigger words

  • Covering word ending to figure out the base word

  • Breaking multi-syllable words into syllables

• Fluency 

  • repeated timed readings

  • using our reading slides to help us track and put words together

  • putting phrases and short sentences together, reading to the end of a line

  • paying attention to punctuation for pausing and expression

• Comprehension

  • Finding evidence in the pictures and words

  • Retelling

  • Compare and Contrast

  • Searching and Locating Information

  • Highlighting tha answer when we find it in the text

3rd Grade

• Sight words - practicing 3 words a week with heart words and multi-sensory activities

• Vocabulary

  • Defining unknown words

  • looking at roots and affixes 

  • Finding relationships between similar words

  • Using context clues to figure out the meaning of words

• Phonics

  •  Long vowels (VCe pattern) vs. Short vowels (CVC pattern) in words

    • Multi-syllable VCE words

    • Breaking multi-syllable words into syllables

    • -s, -ed, ing, -er, -ful, -less suffix

  • Diphthongs - au, aw, oi, oy

    • Multi-syllable diphthong words

• Fluency  

  • repeated timed readings

  • using our reading slides to help us track and put words together

  • putting longer phrases together

  • paying attention to punctuation for pausing and expression

• Self-monitoring -making sure what we read makes sense in the sentence and book

• Comprehension

  • Finding evidence in the text to support our answers and opinions

  • Highlighting

  • Skim and Scan

  • STP - Stop, Think, and Paraphrase

  • Main Ideas and Details

  • Summarizing

  • Maze

Fluency packets-2nd and 3rd grade

• When working on fluency, we use short passages or poems.

• Students practice the passage each night, while timing themselves and try to see how many words they can read in a minute and try to beat the amount of words each try, while having good phrasing and expression.

• Students are timed with the passage at the beginning of the week and at the end of the week in class, to monitor their progress and  see if their words per minute and phrasing improves.