Language Arts Language Arts

DLGs Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Intro: Off We Go! Hands as Warm as Toast Nico and Lola 1. Let’s Be Friends Friends Bein’ With You this Way Winners Never Quit One Smile This is Our House 2. Who’s My Neighbor? Neighbor? Me On the Map Adele & Simon Be My Neighbor Career Day 3. Deep in the Forest Forest When Rain Falls Where Would I Be in an Evergreen Tree? Good-Night, Owl! When We Go Camping 4. Giving Gifts Winter’s Gift Christmas Day in the Morning The Best Present 5. We are Family Family Dad and Me in the Morning GrandfatherCounts Sam and the Lucky Money Mama Panya’s Pancakes 6. Brrrr! It’s Cold! Cold!Balto Mama, Do You Love Me? Alaska Animal Babies The Emperor’s Egg 7. Wonderfully Made Made The Growing Story The Busy Body Book Happy, Healthy Me! 8. Moving On Papa and the Pioneer Quilt A Day on the Prairie Iron Horses Arbor Day Square 9. I’m on a Mission! Jalapeño Bagels A Box for Jiaro Beatrice’s Goat Four Feet Two Sandals Jungle Thorn

3 Core Instructional Blocks of Integrated Curriculum ► Worship/Bible (page 26) ► Language Arts (page 31) ► Math (page 49)

Language Arts Routine Page 11 ► Phonemic Awareness 10 min. ► Sound-Letter Activities min. ► Reading Workshop  Reading to the children (daily read-aloud) min.  Reading with the children (thematic reading) min.  Reading by the children (Stairway to Reading) min ► Signing In 5 min. ► Writing Workshop  Writing with the children 10 min.  Writing by the children min. ► Fine Motor Skills varies ► Listening and Speaking 10 min. once a wk.

Phonemic Awareness Page 35 ► Informal assessment in Off We Go and Teacher Manual (Appendix E) ► DLG pages 35, 94, 153, & 211 ► 4 Levels of phonemic awareness ► Stairway to Reading (Object Match and Picture Match in each color)

Sound-Letter Activities Page 38 ► Included especially for children who are not ready to start Stairway to Reading Stairway to Reading ► Children can learn more complex more complex symbolic work within an authentic context symbolic work within an authentic context ► Many are designed for the children to complete independently ► Good activities for class to engage in while Stairway to Reading lessons are given individually

Reading Workshop Page 40  Reading to the children ► daily read-aloud ► Home Reading Log (Page 5 BLM H) ► big buddies

Reading Workshop  Reading with the children (thematic reading) ► Before Reading (Introduction of Book) ► During Reading (Model Strategies) ► After Reading (Build Comprehension)

Reading Workshop  Reading by the children ► Stairway to Reading ► Pretend read ► Conferencing

Signing In Page Sabrina Sabrina Sabrina 2. Sabrina 3. Sabrina_ ______ 4. Sabrina Seigal __________ Google: Educational Fontware

Writing Workshop Page 43  Writing with the children ► Daily Message ► Predictable Charts  Writing by the children ► Writing Mini Lessons (Appendix F) ► Stages of Writing

Fine Motor Skills Page 47

Listening and Speaking Page 48