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.

Students learn to filter distractions to stay in the focus zone while building information.

Students develop growth mindset strategies for repairing mistakes in information projects.

Students practice 'pausing' their thoughts to plan what they want to build before starting.

Students learn to organize information chronologically using sequence markers like first, next, and last.

Students use sensory adjectives to add precision and clarity to their information architecture.

Students master the mechanics of capital letters and periods to signal the start and end of information projects.

Students learn to use 'Idea Glue' like 'and' and 'because' to connect their thoughts into stronger structures.

Students practice identifying and writing factual statements versus opinions to build reliable projects.