The document outlines a kindergarten reading curriculum organized into 14 units covering various phonics concepts including letter sounds, blending, segmenting, sight words, and adding suffixes. The units progressively build phonics skills and include activities such as dictation, echo reading, and story retelling. Key concepts include CVC words, digraphs, glued sounds, syllables, and words with multiple sounds.
The document outlines a kindergarten reading curriculum organized into 14 units covering various phonics concepts including letter sounds, blending, segmenting, sight words, and adding suffixes. The units progressively build phonics skills and include activities such as dictation, echo reading, and story retelling. Key concepts include CVC words, digraphs, glued sounds, syllables, and words with multiple sounds.
The document outlines a kindergarten reading curriculum organized into 14 units covering various phonics concepts including letter sounds, blending, segmenting, sight words, and adding suffixes. The units progressively build phonics skills and include activities such as dictation, echo reading, and story retelling. Key concepts include CVC words, digraphs, glued sounds, syllables, and words with multiple sounds.
The document outlines a kindergarten reading curriculum organized into 14 units covering various phonics concepts including letter sounds, blending, segmenting, sight words, and adding suffixes. The units progressively build phonics skills and include activities such as dictation, echo reading, and story retelling. Key concepts include CVC words, digraphs, glued sounds, syllables, and words with multiple sounds.
- Alphabetical order - Letter names, keywords and sounds: short vowels, consonants
Unit 2: CVC Words [2 weeks]
- Blending and reading three-sound short vowel words
- Segmenting and spelling three-sound short vowel words - Phonemic awareness skills: sound manipulation (initial, final, medial) - Sentence dictation procedures: Capitalization, period, word spacing - Sentence proofreading procedures - Trick words: the, of, and - Sample words: cat, sip, log, fox - Word of the day: Week 2 fix quit
Unit 3: Digraphs [2 weeks]
- Concept of consonant digraph, keyword and sounds: sh, ch, th, wh, ck - Spelling of ck at the end of words - Sentence dictation procedures: question mark - Narrative vs. expository text - Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: to, a, was, is, he, for, as, his, has - Sample words: wish, chop, sock - Word of the day: Week 1 much shut Week 2 thick quick
Unit 4- Bonus Letters [2 weeks]
- “Bonus” letter spelling rule-ff, ll, ss and sometimes zz
- Glued sounds: all - Story retelling - Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: I, you, we, they, one, said - Sample words: hill, puff, bill, miss, call - Word of the day: Week 1 miss fill Week 2 call chill
Unit 5: Review [1 week]
- Glued sounds: am, an
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: from, or, have - Sample words: ham, can, fan - Word of the day: Week 1 ran ham
Unit 6: Suffix -s [3 weeks]
- Baseword and suffix with the suffix -s
- Plural nouns - Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Narrative story structure - Beginning composition skills - Trick words: were, her, put, there, what, she, been, by, who - Word of the day: Week 1 jobs Week 2 ships sell Week 3 ducks pins
Unit 7: Glued Sounds [3 weeks]
- Glued sounds: ang ,ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk - Blending and reading words with ng and nk - Segmenting and spelling words with ng and nk - Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Narrative story structure - Beginning composition skills - Beginning composition skills - Trick words: out, so, are, two, about, into, only, other, new - Sample words: bang, bank, pink - Word of the day: Week 1 hang wing Week 2 junk link Week 3 fangs thinks
Unit 8: Multi Sound Words
[3 weeks]
- Blending and reading words with four sounds (+suffix-s)
- Segmenting and spelling words with four sounds (+suffix-s) - Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Narrative story structure Paragraph structure - Trick words: some, could, want, say, do, first, any, my, now - Sample words: bump, stash, bled, past, steps - Word of the day: Week 1 flip task Week 2 shreds bluffs
Unit 9: Closed Syllable [2 weeks]
- Teach the concept of closed syllable
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: our over, come, would after, also - Sample words: kit, slip, stash - Word of the day: Week 1 block act Week 2 drills spells Unit 10: Blending & Reading Words with 5 Sounds [3 weeks]
- Blending and reading words with five sounds (+ suffix –s)
- Segmenting and spelling words with five sounds (+ suffix-s) - Words with suffix –s used as action words vs. plurals - Narrative story structure - Beginning composition skills - Trick words: many, before, called, how, your, down, should, because, each - Sample words: Stump, clasp, strap - Word of the day: Week 1 slept trust Week 2 strap clumps Week 3 blending painted
Unit 11: Compound Words [3 weeks]
- Concept of syllable - Compound words - Syllable division rules for closed syllables: compound words between two vowels - Expository text - Beginning composition skills - Trick words: people, Mr., Mrs., years, says, little, good, very, own - Sample words: catnip, publish - Word of the day: Week 1 globe brave Week 2 swipe tape Week 3 tribes rules
Unit 12: Adding -s & -es [2 weeks]
- Adding –s, -es, suffix to unchanging basewords with closed syllables
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: see, work, between, both, being, under - Sample words: bumps, steps, wishes, lunches - Word of the day: - Week 1: upset, limit - Week 2: excuse, dislike - Week 3: frantic, plastic
Unit 13: Adding -ed & -ing [2 weeks]
- Adding –ed, -ing suffixes to unchanging basewords with closed syllables
- Story retelling Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: never, another, day, words, look, through - Sample words: wishing, rented, slashing, blended - Word of the day: - Week 1: includes - Week 2: crosses, waxes - Week 3: finishes, inches
Unit 14: CVCe Words
[2 weeks]
- Long vowel sounds for vowel-consonant-e
- Expository text Prosody with echo reading - Trick words: friend, around, circle, does, nothing, write, none, color, month - Sample words: stove, hope, caves - Word of the day: - Week 1: thrilling - Week 2: submit, disputes
