Grade Level: Kindergarten
Subject: English Language Arts / Revised Date: 4-26-12
Quarter # 1,2,3,4
Strand / Domain / Phonics and Word Recognition
Standard(s)
(one or more standards/indicators; can be clustered) / K.RF.3Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
  1. Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant.
  2. Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.
  3. Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does).
  4. Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

Big Idea(s) /
  1. Reading is recognizing words and understanding the meaning of those words.
  2. Decoding and the use of phonics is an essential skill when learning to read and write.
  3. Recognizing and decoding words are essential foundational skills for independent readers and writers.

Essential Question(s) /
  1. Which words and word families need to be mastered for emergent readers to become independent?
  2. How will decoding skills transfer to writing skills?
  3. How do you distinguish word patterns and sounds in words that are similar? (sat/sam)

Academic Vocabulary (what students need to know in order to complete the task) / Beginning Sound
Middle Sound
Ending Sound
Long Sound
Short Sound
High Frequency Words
Word Wall
Substitute
Onset
Rhyme/Rhyming
Sound
Word
Sentence
Blending
Consonant Blends
Sample Activities / Word Building: Once students know one word, they can often build other words based on that knowledge. For example given the word kind, students can be asked to build words using affixes. Students may come up with words (kinder, kindness, kindest, unkind, kindly). Other examples could be to create words based on word families (-at, cat, bat, sat), meaning/category (apple, orange, grape, pear), beginning sounds (had, happy, hat, hill) etc.
Morning Message: Create a message for the class each morning. In addition to reading it, have students come to the chart and circle targeted phonics patterns or sight words that they can recognize. Students can say the sounds or read the words aloud as they circle them. As the year progresses, students should take a more active role in creating the morning message.
Elkonin Boxes: Elkonin boxes are a physical segmentation of words into phonemes. Each box in an Elkonin box card represents one phoneme, or sound. They can be used to help students understand how to ‘stretch’ out words, by hearing every sound.
District Adopted
Core Curriculum / Houghton Mifflin:
Themes 1-10
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics Skills
High Frequency Words
Word Work
Reading Mastery:
Lessons 1-160
In Reading Mastery Signature Edition, macrons (long lines over vowels, differentiate long vowel sounds from short vowel sounds. When the vowels appear in words, words are spelled correctly but letters that are not pronounced appear in small letters. By the middle of Grade 1, all letters are presented in traditional orthography.
In Reading Mastery Signature Edition, students reread words “the fast way” on reading-vocabulary pages. The rereading step is designed to help students with whole-word reading and with remembering words.
In Reading Mastery Signature Edition, students sound out words in every lesson, starting at lesson 28. Beginning at lesson 37, students read some words by applying rhyming skills. Sounding-out and rhyming prepare students to read words that are very similar.When reading words “the fast way,” errors are corrected by having students sound out the word to focus on sounds of letters.
Lesson Connections:
Does not meet standard.
Additional Resource(s) / Houghton Mifflin:
Math Link
On Level Handbook
Challenge Handbook
English Language Learner Handbook
Classroom Management Handbook
Phonics Library
On My Way Practice Readers
Little Big Books
Phonics Center
Houghton Mifflin Presentation Sheets
I Love Reading Books
Reading Mastery:
Seatwork Blackline Masters
Sentence Copying Program for Reading Mastery 1
Practice Decodable Stories
Rapid Reading Charts
Signature Sound Cards
Additional Resources
Early Reading Intervention
Starfall.com
Leap Frog Letter Factory
Drops in the Bucket: Reading, Writing, Spelling, Picture Vocabulary
Formative Assessment(s)
that relate to CCSS / Houghton Mifflin Theme Skills Assessment
Reading Mastery, Mastery Tests
CBM Progress Monitoring
Summative Assessment(s)
that relate to CCSS / CBM Benchmark Assessment
Curriculum Maps / 1

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