Rhymes and Phonics
Grades K-2
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 units of sound.

Rhymes and Claps, Words and Sounds
Grades K-2
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.

Semantic Mapping for Early Readers
Grades K-2
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.


Somebody Wanted But So: SWBS
Grades K-2
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.


Story Writing, Story Telling
Grades K-2
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.


Switching Strategy
Grades K-2
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.

Two-Sound Word Hunt
Grades K-2
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.