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Vocabulary Key Learning(S): Topic: Fluency Unit Essential Question(S Topic: Fluency Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools: Odyssey Fluency is essential for How does fluency impact Reading PALS automaticity of a skill. learning to read? FCRR Internet Resources Concept: Concept: Concept: Concept: Awareness Phonics Vocabulary Comprehension Phonemic I Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential Questions: 1. How do you differentiate 1. How do you map letters 1. How does activating prior 1. How do we incorporate story a sound as the same or to sounds fluently? knowledge to make elements to gain a deeper level different fluently? 2. How does analyzing the connections to text affect of understanding text and 2. How do you identify structure of words affect fluency? fluency of reading? beginning, middle and fluency? ending sounds in words fluently? Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Segmentation Onset/Rime Closed Syllables Blends Text to Self Synonyms Fiction Main Idea Blending Rhyming Capital Letters Diagraphs Text to World Antonyms Non-Fiction Compare/Contrast Phoneme Identification Lowercase Letters Vowels Text to Text Sequence Categorize Phoneme Isolation Consonants Shared Reading Character Retell Shared Reading Phoneme Deletion Syllables Fry Sight Words Setting Read Aloud Substitution Addition Other Information: Concert: Concept: Concept: Concept: I Writing L Lesson Essential Questions Lesson Essential Questions Lesson Essential Questions Lesson Essential Questions 1. How do you transfer sounds to symbols, words, and express meaning in writing fluently? Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Fry Sight Words Capital Letters Lowercase Letters Topic: Introduction to Reading Fluency Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools -Sound Wall Developing fluent skills leads to How do I become a fluent reader? -Alphabet Cards -Sight Words comprehension. -Poems, Songs, Chee Nursery Rhymes -Fluency Rubric Concept: Concept: Concept: Concep. Automaticity Prosody MAP (Model, Assisted Reading, Practice) Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential Questions: 1. How does naming known 1. What does fluent reading Beginning of Year: items help me develop fluency? sound like? How does listening to and reading 2. How does knowing my j: with my teacher help me become a sounds help me read fluently? fluent reader? 3. Why is it important to know my End of Year: letter names fluently? How does practicing alone or with 4. Why is it important to know my a partner help me become a fluent sight words fluently? reader? Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: • Fluently • Expression • Repeated Reading • Sight words • Volume • Choral Reading • Letter sounds/names • Phrasing • Modeled Reading • Pictures, colors, shapes • Smoothness • Paired Reading • Automaticity • Pace • Echo Reading Other Information: 1. Beginning of Kindergarten: Teacher will use modeled and assisted reading (choral, echo, listening center) 2. By March practice with partner or independently will be added to fluency practice. 3. Be specific what fluent reading sounds like when talking with students about fluency and reading. 4. Fluency is an exposure skill in Kindergarten. Shippensburg Area School District 2011-2012 _____). Topic: Phonemic Awareness Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools: -Blueprint for Intervention: A solid understanding of phonemic How does phonemic awareness impact Phonological Awareness awareness is essential for future learning to read? Book and Routine Cards. reading (95% Group) Concept: Concept: Concept: Concept: Readiness Sound and Word Rhyming Blending Discrimination Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential Questions: 1. What skills do I need to be ready to 1. How do I tell if sounds are 1. Howdolknowifaword 1. How do I put syllables/parts read? the same or different? (la & rhymes? (2a) together to make a word? (3a) 1 c) (Reference: Blueprint: Skill 1 2. How can I make rhyming 2. How do I put sounds together to Concepts and Terms p. 23. Lessons 2. How do I tell if words are the words? (ex. I say make, you say make words? (3b) 1.1—1.9). same or different? (1 b) (2b) 3. How do I break words into individual sounds? (3b) Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: • Directionality • Beginning, middle, end • Rhyme Manipulation (change) • Representation/Represent sounds • Word Families • One-to-One • Same, different • Onset-Rime • First and Last • Identification/Identify • Beginning, Middle, End • Deletion, Addition, Substitution Other Information: 1. Use Blueprint for Intervention: Phonological Awareness Lessons in sequential order starting on page 58. 2. Phonemic Awareness in Younci Children by Adams, Foorman, Lindberg, Beeler. 3. LETRS Module 2 4. Number and letter after each essential question corresponds to the scope and sequence curriculum map. Shippensburg Area School District 20 11-2012 Concept: Concept: Concept: Concept: Segmentation L Lesson Essential Questions Lesson Essential Questions Lesson Essential Questions Lesson Essential Questions 1. How can I identify words in a sentence? (4a) 2. How can I identify syllables in words? (4b) 3. How do I identify the becinninq and end sounds in a word? (4d) 4. How do I break words into syllables/parts? (4c) Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary Vocabulary • Segment • Syllable/parts • Sentence • Identify • Word Shippensburg Area School District 2011-2012 Topic: Alphabetic Principle Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools: -Blueprint for Intervention: Alphabetic Principle connects sounds What role does alphabetic principle play Phonics and symbols. in a child’s process of learning to read? -Reading PALS -FCRR Concept: Concept: Concept: Concept: Letter-Sound Decoding Encoding Sight Word Reading Correspondence Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential Questions: 1. What sound does each letter 1. How do you blend sounds to 1. How do I represent the sounds 1. How does knowing sight words help symbol make? (la, ib, & ic) read words? (3a) in words? (2a) me read fluently? (4a) 2. What letters can I write at the (Reference: Fry Sight Word List. beginning and end of words? (2a) Words 1—50 3. How can I make a new word by adding or substituting other letters? (2b) Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: • Alphabet • Adding • Letter Symbol • Substituting • Sound Other Information: 1 Hard sounds of c & g only. 2. Short vowels should be used. *(Short a and short o are the only vowels to be mastered in Kindergarten—application in reading and writing). 3. Fry word List should be referred as “Sight Words” to keep vocabulary consistent. 4. Numbers and letters after each Essential Question reference the Scope and Sequence Curriculum Map. Shippensburg Area School District 2011-2012 ______ Topic: Spelling Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools: -Phoneme-Grapheme Mapping Letterlsound relationships How do soundlletter Phonics build a foundation for spelling. relationships help a child write words? Concept: Concept: Concept: Phoneme Awareness Letter Sounds Names I Letter Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential Questions: 1. What sound does each letter 1. How do I break words into 1. What is the name of each symbol make? (la, ib, Ic) individual sounds? (3b) NOTE: letter? (3a) reference PA blending 2. How do I tell if sounds are the same or different? (1 b) Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: • Same/Different Finger spell Alphabet • Beginning, Middle, End Sounds Other Information: 1. Tap It, Map It, and Graph It activity. 2. Refer to letter as “What is the name?” Refer to the sound as “What is the sound?” Shippensburg Area School District 2011-2012 __________________ Topic: Print Concepts Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools How does understanding -Authentic Literature Concepts of Print are the directionality and how letters and -Blueprint for Intervention: Phonological Awareness (95% foundation for effective literacy words go together build reading Group) instruction. skills? -FCRR Concept: Concept: Concept: p. Tracking Sequence of LetterslWords Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential Questions: 1. Where do I start reading and 1. Whyistherea space which way do I go? (la) between words? (1 b) 2. Why is there a period at the end of a sentence? (ic) 3. Where is the first/last letter in a word? (ib) 4. How do I locate a letter within a word/a word within a sentence? (ib) Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: Vocabulary: • Left to right • Period • Return sweep • Space • Top to bottom • First • Last • Sentence Other Information: • Develop a CAP (Concepts about print) checklist. Shippensburg Area School District 2011-2012 Topic: Comprehension Grade: K Optional Key Learning(s): Unit Essential Question(s): Instructional Tools: Scott Foresman To build meaningful connections Why is it important to understand Literature through text, with self and world. what I read? Concept: Concept: Concept: Predicting/Identifying Identifying information Retelling and Making Connections from text Summarizing Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Questions: Lesson Essential Question Lesson Essential
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