Students practice hearing and producing the difference between 'telling' sentences and 'asking' sentences, focusing on rising intonation and the question mark symbol.
A final assessment and celebration of 10 weeks of learning.
Interactive games and word hunts to solidify phonological awareness.
Reading decodable short stories featuring characters from the -at, -an, and -ad families.
Phonics fluency practice using flashcards and timed word reading activities.
Building simple sentences using short 'a' words and common high-frequency sight words.
Intensive tracing and independent writing practice for all three word families.
A review and synthesis week where students sort and compare the three word families.
Focus on the -ad word family, identifying emotions and nouns like sad, mad, and dad.
Focus on the -an word family, exploring words like can, fan, and man.
Focus on the -at word family, introducing basic phonics blending and letter formation.
A hands-on phonics lesson where students build CVC words using a 'Word Workshop' theme. This lesson focuses on identifying sounds and blending them within word families.
A comprehensive phonics and handwriting foundation for kindergarteners, focusing on uppercase and lowercase letter formation and letter recognition through engaging puzzles and mazes.
A comprehensive set of foundational literacy materials focused on 27 key sight words and nouns, covering word recognition, handwriting, sentence structure, and phonics.
A lively, kinesthetic lesson where K-3 students personify punctuation marks through movement and creative writing to understand how they shape the voice of a sentence.
A foundational literacy lesson focusing on decoding CVC and CVCE words through a short story about a boy and his pet. Students will practice reading fluency and inferring character feelings based on story events.