made by Wendy Taylor K-6 Literacy Coach Fundations: Level One made by Wendy Taylor K-6 Literacy Coach

Orientation: Week 1 -teach students how to echo (manual p.162) -teach the writing grid (manual p.162) -teach how to follow verbalization (manual p. 162-163) -teach pencil grip and tracing (manual p. 163)

WRITING GRID SKY LINE PLANE LINE GRASS LINE WORM LINE

PENCIL GRIP

Good news… Once you are familiar with the following 7 activities, you know all the procedures for unit 1 Lesson plans taken directly from the manual are typed up for you to use for the entire K level including the orientation and all 5 units

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Vowel Extension (see manual p Vowel Extension (see manual p. 94 and appendix to make this chart with Fundation’s pictures) 5. a e i o u

6. play Sound Bingo hand out sound cards-students stand if they have letter called

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Let’s look at a typical week in Unit 1 Let’s look at a typical week in Unit 1! (lesson plans are typed on template for all 14 units-posted on the wiki)

Fundations Level 1, Unit 1: Week 1 Focus: Reviews or teaches letter names, keywords, sounds and lower-case letter formations of letters from a-z. Refer to explanation and/ or script on page number given. Gala D. Co Day 1 Letter-Keyword-Sound Sky Write/Letter Formation Student Notebook Echo/Letter Formation Day 2 Drill Sounds Day 3 Letter-Keyword Sound Vowel Extension Day 4 Day 5 Make It Fun Alphabetical Order Echo/Find Letters Letter-Keyword-Sound Page 167: Introduce sky line letters t, b, f. Use Large and Standard Sound Cards Introduce plane line letters: n, m. Introduce: c, a. Introduce plane line letters: i, r. Drill Sounds Page 168: Do all introduced sounds. 1st practice with Large Sound Cards; then Standard Sound Cards. Sky Write/Letter Formation Page 168: Follow the Letter Formation Guide instructions in appendix. Make It Fun Page 169: Student Notebook Page 168: Direct the students to find the letters that you are working on in the sound section of their Student Notebooks. Direct them to point to one letter at a time. Vowel Extension Page 169: Use the Keyword Pictures to make a Vowel Extension activity on chart paper on the classroom board. Enlarge Copy from Appendix Alphabetical Order Page 170: Students order Magnetic Letter Tiles. Echo/Letter Formation Page 168: Do the new sounds as well as two or three sounds from previous days on Dry Erase Writing Tablets. Sky Write Letter-Keyword-Sounds introduced. Comments:

Unit 2’s new concepts… tapping to read words tapping to spell sentence reading sentence dictation (4 weeks long) New procedures are added at this point--- Word of the Day, Word Talk, Trick Words, Echo-Find Letters and Words Dictation (dry erase and composition) Students will begin to do dictation in composition books instead of dry erase.

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Unit 3’s new concept is… digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck) how to mark up words A new procedure in Unit 3 is Story Time.

14. read ABC books and point out letters use baby echo to read a story

New concepts Unit 4: ff, ll, ss bonus letters and glued sound -all Unit 5: two new glued sounds –am and –an Unit 6: baseword and suffix –s, plurals Unit 7: more glued sounds –ang, -ing, -ong, -ung then –ank, -ink, -onk, -unk Unit 8: difference between blends and digraphs and also digraph blends Unit 9: closed syllables

New concepts Unit 10: blending up to 5 sounds in a closed syllable Unit 11: switch focus from sounds to syllables, syllable division Unit 12: suffix ending –es Unit 13: suffix –ed, -ing Unit 14: vowel-consonant-e