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.
Battleship Phonics
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply phonological processing and phonemic awareness skills to interrelated word banks and sentences.
- Students will analyze phonemes to synthesize words and meaning for full sentence and thematic comprehension.
- Students will recognize and process small and abstract units of sound.
Comprehension with Ellie
Learning Targets:
- Students will read with accuracy, expression, and rate.
- Students will engage in a choral, audio-assisted reading with partner “Ellie.”
- Students will apply accountable independent reading with appropriate speed, accuracy, and comprehension.
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.
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.
Echo Reading with Ellie
Learning Targets:
- Students will apply expression and rate for reading endurance
- Students will read alongside “Ellie” with expression and rate.
- Students will apply fluency strategies to independent reading.
- Students will summarize information.
- Students will self-evaluate their work.
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.
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.
Learning New Words
Learning Targets:
- Students will pronounce, spell, and read new words together.
- Students will discuss unusual features about the words.
- Students will practice orthography by writing new words in sentences.
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.
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.
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”.
Looking Forward with Anticipation Guides
Learning Targets:
- Students will make predictions before reading a chunk of non-fiction text.
- Students will determine whether their predictions and anticipations were true or false.
- Students will use an Anticipation Guide to record predictions and anticipations.
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.
Paired Reading with Ellie
Learning Targets:
- Students will read with accuracy, expression, and rate.
- Students will engage in shared reading with “Ellie” the rabbit robot, or "rabot".
- Students will apply reading endurance when reading independently.
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.
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.
Reader's Theatre
Learning Targets:
- Students will read scripts aloud with expression and intonation.
- Students will demonstrate reading fluency.
- Students will evaluate their own reading fluency with a read aloud rubric.
