Unit Overview: 

Back-to-School Week (Lessons 1–5)
The Back-to-School lessons reacquaint students with CKLA daily routines and exercises. In addition, the Back-to-School lessons prepare students for the placement assessments that follow this week by providing practice and review of reading skills and code knowledge.

Placement Assessment (Lessons 6–10)
During this week, all students will participate in a comprehensive series of placement assessments to evaluate their knowledge of the skills taught in the Kindergarten CKLA program. Detailed instructions are provided for analyzing each student’s performance, along with suggestions for grade-wide planning to determine the most effective and efficient way to group students for phonics instruction. It is imperative that students be placed in groups that correspond with their reading abilities. Students must receive instruction that is a good match for their current reading abilities and knowledge of the code.

Review of Sound/Spelling Correspondences (Lessons 11–32)
These lessons review the majority of sounds and spellings taught in the CKLA Kindergarten curriculum. You will be reviewing several things at once: the sound (e.g., /b/), the letter name (e.g., “bee”), the lowercase letter (e.g., ‘b’), and the uppercase letter (e.g.,‘B’)

Unit Calendar:

Unit 1 is 32 instructional days with 3 pausing points. It is recommended that it be taught from August 22nd to October 11th.