Learning Blends and Digraphs
Learning Targets:
- Students will listen to and say the soft “c” and “g” sounds, or "digraph.
- Students will listen to, and say, unusual blends in words, or "trigraphs".
- Students will recognize digraphs and trigraphs in new words.
4 Steps to Context Clues
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply independent fix-it strategies to new/unknown words.
- Students will use context clues to determine the meaning of new/unknown words using word parts, sounds, context, and a dictionary.
Story Writing, Story Telling
Learning Targets:
- Students will design their own story using a storyboard and images.
- Students will apply “good speaking” skills to the retelling of their own story.
- Students will rate their own oral reading using the Good Speaking Rubric.
Literature Webbing
Learning Targets:
- Students will organize information from a guided reading into a literature web.
- Students will make predictions about an upcoming reading.
- Students will identify main idea.
- Students will identify chronological order of events.
Switching Strategy
Learning Targets:
- Students will pull together sources to draw a conclusion.
- Students will apply a switching strategy to comprehend the author’s intention.
- Students will increase comprehension by relating their own lives to a reading.
Somebody Wanted But So: SWBS
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply good listening skills to a story reading.
- Students will grasp the main idea of a story.
- Students will identify story elements to include character, setting, problem, solution.
Concepts of Digital Print
Learning Targets:
- Students will analyze the concepts of digital print.
- Students will apply knowledge of the concepts of digital print to their reading effort.
Thinking While Reading Digital Print
Learning Targets:
- Students will navigate digital print to make predictions.
- Students will monitor their own reading by using metacognition.
- Students
will use metacognition and predictions to improve their reading.
Reading Digital Print for Deep Comprehension
Learning Targets:
Pre-reading and Making Predictions in Digital Print
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply effective navigation strategies to pre-read for prediction and comprehension.
- Students will apply knowledge of the concepts of digital print to be able to navigate on a digital device more effectively.
My Own Word Wall
Learning Targets:
- Students will listen and respond to instructions.
- Students will place and organize pictures, letters, and words onto a word wall.
- Students will identify sound-symbol associations.
Two-Sound Word Hunt
Learning Targets:
- Students will identify syllables in words by clapping to them.
- Students will produce initial word sounds.
- Students will distinguish beginning word sounds from middle and end sounds.
Long Vowels, Short Vowels, and Silent “e”
Learning Targets:
- Students will recognize and pronounce short and long vowel sounds.
- Students will recognize new words with short and long vowel sounds.
- Students will successfully sound out words with long and short vowel sounds.
- Students will recognize and pronounce words with silent “e”.
R-controlled Vowels
Learning Targets:
- Students will recognize r-controlled vowels in words.
- Students will sound out r-controlled vowels in words.
- Students will engage in activities to apply knowledge of r-controlled vowels.
Irregular Vowel Patterns
Learning Targets:
- Students will recognize irregular vowel teams in sight words.
- Students will sound out and effectively pronounce words with irregular vowel teams in them.
- Students will manipulate word families to understand and recognize words with irregular vowels.
Rhymes and Claps, Words and Sounds
Learning Targets:
- Students will recite a nursery rhyme.
- Students will record themselves reciting a nursery rhyme.
- Students will clap out sounds to a nursery rhyme.
Digraphs and Trigraphs: ck, ch, tch, dge, ph
Learning Targets:
- Students will recognize unusual (rule-breaker) patterns in sight words.
- Students will sound out and effectively pronounce words with digraphs and trigraphs.
- Students will manipulate word families to understand and recognize digraphs and trigraphs.
Semantic Mapping for Early Readers
Learning Targets:
- Students will develop capacity for understanding complex concepts through mapping.
- Students will connect words and phrases with ideas and concepts.
- Students will identify and recall the meaning of words read in context.
Learning with Sentence Strips
Learning Targets:
- Students will organize words and sentences using knowledge of phonics.
- Students will apply appropriate oral and aural language to tell about their experiences as they relate to a story.
- Students will use context clues to reconstruct a story using words and sentence strips.