Foundations
What every beginner should know!
What every beginner should know!
Dictation Spelling Practice
- short (a)
- short (i)
- short (u)
- short (o)
- short (e)
- (ea) combination
- Digraph (th)
- Digraph (wh)
- Digraph (sh)
- Digraph (ch)
- Bossy "r" (ar)
- Vowel Pattern (a-e, ay)
- Vowel Pattern (ai, eigh)
- Review (a-e,ai,ay,eigh)
- Singular, Plural (ant, ants)
- Singular, Plural (branch, branches)
- Suffixes (ed, ing)
- Ending (le) as in apple
- Vowel Pattern (ee, -e)
- Vowel Pattern (ea)
- Vowel Pattern (-y)
- Vowel Pattern (ey, ie)
- Review ( ee, ea, -e, -y, ey, ie)
- Vowel Pattern (old, ost)
- Variant Vowel Pattern (or)
- Review (o-e, oe, oa, -o, ow, old, ost)
- Vowel Pattern (u-e, ue)
- Vowel Pattern (ew, ui)
- Review (u-e, ue, ui, ew)
- Review Long Vowel Patterns
- Suffix (bye-bye "e")
- Contractions
- Spelling Pattern (are)
- Variant Vowel Bossy "r" (ur)
- Variant Vowel Bossy "r" (ir)
- Variant Vowel Bossy (or)
- Variant Vowel Pattern (long oo)
- Variant Vowel Pattern (ow, ou)
- Variant Vowel Pattern (aw, au, al, all)
- (wa) as in water
- Variant Vowel Pattern (oy, oi)
- Soft c (ce, ci, cy)
- Soft g (ge, gi, gy)
- Soft g (dge)
Reading Strategies that work in Every Content Area
Reading Strategies that work in Every Content Area
- Reread
- Activate Prior Knowledge
- Use Context Clues
- Think Aloud
- Summarize
- Locate Key Words
- Make Predictions
- Visualize
- Use Graphic Organizers
- Evaluate Understanding
- Question the Text
- Paraphrase
- Adjust Reading Rate
- Prioritize Information
- Use Graphic Note Taking
- Set a Reader Purpose
- Text-connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world)
- 5w's
- Main idea
- Sequence
- Five elements of a story
- Problem-solution
- Setting
- Plot elements
Grammatical Order that works for beginners!
Grammatical Order that works for beginners!
- Nouns: common and proper
- Pronouns: she
- Verbs: play
- Present tense: She plays
- Nouns: She play game
- Plural: She plays 3 games
- Preposition of place : She plays 3 games at park ( at, in, on)
- Indefinite/Definite Articles : She plays 3 games at the park (the/an/an)
- Verbs followed by prepositions : She listens to music at the park (to, from, about)
- Verb to be- am, are, is, I am, you are, he is, she is, it is, they are, we are
- Present Progressive: She is playing 3 games
- Past Tense : She played 3 games
- Simple Predicate: Is the main word or phrase that tells something about the subject of the sentence- The brown horse appeared at the starting line
- Possessive Adjectives: my, your, his, her, its and their
- Possessive Pronouns: mine, his, hers, theirs and ours
- Pronoun forms: him, her and them- these are used when a pronoun is the object in a sentence. Ex. I will go with him.