Focuses on the long 'a' vowel teams 'ai' and 'ay'. Students read about Gail's trip to her brother's farm on a Sunday, practicing words like 'trail', 'snail', 'spray', and 'clay' while learning syllable division rules for vowel teams.
An advanced application lesson where students manipulate VSE words and practice distinguishing the /s/ and /z/ sounds in varied contexts.
A 3rd-grade lesson focused on recounting stories and identifying themes using partner-based storytelling and a small group matching game. Students will practice summarizing key events and extracting central lessons from diverse fables and folktales.
A structured literacy lesson focused on the letter C /k/ and glued sounds -an and -am, using the decodable text 'The Cat Can'. This lesson follows a backwards planning approach to ensure students can decode and encode CVC words and nasalized vowels.
A cumulative review of all long and short vowel patterns (A, E, I, O, U) within a complex "System Sync" text reaching higher Lexile levels.
Covers short /u/ and /e/ versus their long VCe counterparts, incorporating advanced phoneme-grapheme mapping.