Literacy for Life!

Keys to Reading:

Decoding

Fluency

Comprehension

Skill Set

*Alphabet Sight/Sound Correspondence

*Blending 3 Letter words

*Sight Words

*Silent e Words

*Y at the end of one and two beat words

*long vowels with two vowels together

*Family Words (rhyming words)

*Word Endings (s, es, ed, ing, tion, ly)

*Word Keys:

th, sh, ch, wh, qu, ar, er, ir, or, ur, ue, ew,

oo, ui, oi, oy, ay, oi, oy, au, aw, ou, ow, ck,

gh, wr, ph, ce, ci, cy, ge, ci, gy

Empowering Children and Parents

Step-by-Step

On the

Adventure of Learning to Read

*Foster the joy of learning in your child to

develop a strong reading/writing/spelling

foundation through a fun and successful

method anyone can learn! This program is

used in many private schools.

*Give your child the guidance and expertise

of a certified teacher in a small group setting

once weekly to ensure excellent instruction.

*Build relationships with other parents and

children passionate about literacy!

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1. Lesson Opening:

Puppet Shows and Games

to introduce/review reading

concepts & sight words

2. Reading Lesson Applica-

tion: Sentence Writing: Teacher

brainstorms strong verbs and models

writing a sentence. Students write.

Reading: Teacher explains lesson. Child

reads decodable sentences/stories and

complete exercises to apply what has

been taught. Parent listens to child

read, helps child where necessary and

corrects work.

3. Spelling

4. Sight Word and Fluency Book:

New sentence with sight word for the

day is introduced. Students create the

next page of their book and read

entire contents to parent.

5. Classroom Library:

Blending short vowel word pack

Decodable books

The Method of Reading

Instruction Matters

Did you know..

*Dr. Seashore of Northwestern University

estimates that when reading practice is

based on explicit phonics instruction and

accompanied by highly decodable text, most

students are able to read almost anything

within their comprehension vocabularies

which he estimates to be about 30 000 words

by the end of third grade!

*reading education is a field more vulnerable

than many to faddish practices that later

prove to be untenable

Teaching Reading is Rocket Science

www.aft.org/edissuesrocketscience.htm

*a poor reader at the end of first grade has

a 88% chance of remaining a poor reader

even by the end of the fourth grade

Allington, R. (1998)

*correcting reading problems beyond the

second grade has a very low success rate

Pikulski, J. (1994)

Student Success:

Having Fun

Increasing Focus Time

Applying Skills

Learning to Work Steady

Developing Independence

What Makes this Program Work?

1. Fun, Systematic, Sequenced Concepts

2. Cumulative Review

3. Word Analysis (the missing ingredient

in most phonics instruction)

4. Decodable Text

5. Independent Application of Learning

6. Parent and Child Learning Together

Reading Lesson for Day Twenty-Six

a. Watch DVD puppet show on jay bird letter j

Introduce sight word: your

c. On two index cards print: j, your Review all index cards.

d. Complete all reading worksheets.

e. 2nd page reading worksheet instructions: Outline

Letter: j Sight word: your

Day 26 Jay bird letter

/4 comprehension

/31 decoding

Is this your green bug? went the man.

It is not, went the brown rat.

The man kept the green bug in a jug.

The bug and the man are now pals.

SS Phonics Worksheets: Day 26 Letter Practice: j

Say the name of the picture. Circle the letter the picture STARTS with.

Draw two things that start with the letter j

2. Sight Word Book Instructions: Cut out sentence strip from NEXT page. Have child cut words out, glue them

down in order and illustrate. Next, have child read all sentences in his book out loud. He

should touch each word as he reads the sentences out loud.

Today’s sentence is:

I have a ball,

3. Printing Practice NOTE: Different shapes indicate where to start printing on a line. Print one line each of

upper and lower case letters. Letters are formed with lines from top to bottom.

Letters of the Day

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4. Story Time: Two Blue Jays by Anne Rockwell

Spelling: Vowels: a e i o u

1.__________________ 6.____________________

2.__________________ 7.____________________

3.__________________ 8.____________________

4.__________________ 9.____________________

5.__________________ 10.___________________

6. Sentence Writing Begins: Topic: barn

Action Words: stood sat spread reached towered rose

climbed creaked

Child’s Illustration:

Draw a picture of a

baseball.

Repeated Reading Sight Word Book Sentence Strips

*Cut out one strip for each day’s lesson from this page.

The sight word story for Days 26 to 30 is called “Play Ball”

Day 26

Day 27

Day 28

Day 29

Day 30

have I a ball,

as can as blue be.

But have you your bat.

red as be. as can

we Now play! can

SS Writing Worksheets: Day 26

Sentence Example: Your barn is red.

Words I know: see I can the

me play like and

work a is you

to we that in

for at with it on put are of

this your

Colours I know:

green

red

brown

black

yellow

blue

orange

purple

white

Write a sentence about this barn:

OR choose your own idea.

My Sentence _____________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________

action word:

_____________

Lesson 26

is done.

Action Words: stood sat spread reached

rose climbed creaked towered

Reading Lesson for Day Twenty-four

NEW: For CVCC (consonant/vowel/consonant/consonant)

short vowel words: just add ed or ing

Instructions: Read the words below with your parent.

Remember ed has three sounds: t as in baked d as in tamed ed as in wanted

For Short Vowel Words (CVCC) just add ed or ing

wilt wilts wilted wilting

quilt quilts quilted quilting

Bumper Words drop silent e before

adding ed or ing

quote quotes quoted quoting

Word Family Review: all ook ight ay atch ink old

stall look flight gold

bray hatch pink hold

Concept: Review long vowel words (bumper words

with silent e and mouse words: ai, oa, ea, ee)

Teacher: Listen to student read to the star and stop due togrowing length of story.

Day 24 Sight Word: both Word Family: ook

Max likes to eat lots of cookies . One day he looked in his

cookie jar and there were no cookies ! Who took my cook-

ies ? cried Max . He did not wait . He went to look for his

cookies . A trail of cookies went out of his home . The

trail went down the road . Max looked and then he could

see a yellow tail .* He got close . It was Pammy and her

beak was full of cookies ! Pammy was sorry . She baked

Max some more cookies. Now, they were both glad ! /62

1. Why was Max sad?

*he lost his cookies *someone took his cookies

2. What helped Max get his cookies?

*a pair of glasses *a book *a trail of cookies

3. Who had the yellow tail?

*Pammy *Cookies *Penny

4. A good name for this story is:

* The Missing Cookies

* Pammy gets Mad at Max

/4 Pammy

Put the story events in order using numbers.

_____ Pammy ate Max’s cookies.

_____ Pammy made Max more cookies.

_____ Max had an empty cookie jar.

_____ A trail of cookies went down the road.

Look at the picture. Read the words and circle the matching one.

Mark the vowels and READ the words to your parent.

R = regular (short vowel)

B = bumper (long vowel with silent e)

M = mouse word (long vowel with 2 vowels together)

eagle beagle

eel ale

lies lizard

Lizzy like

pie pain

paint piano

head heed

hear heat

arm artist

arts ark

cram crab

crate cradle

back bike

brick bread

blink stink

think drink

4. drab____

5. bites __

6 here____

7. bloat___

8. clicks ___

9. trained___

10. moped___

11. fussed __

12. fears____

1. feels ____

2. scrub ____

3. robe _____

NEW: ea sometimes says short e sound as in “head”

Circle and count the Word Keys.

READ the words to your parent.

ea ar er ur ir or oo ue

Match two words to make a compound word.

Copy the compound word above to its matching picture below.

Lesson 24 is done.

Read book from classroom library.

4. firm____

5. thorn ____

6 burnt_____

7. boost____

8. spurt ____

9. carpet____

10. blurt___

11. nerve ___

12. chirp____

1. booth____

2. porch ____

3. thread____

bird pin

barn yard

push housesea + shell = seashell

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1. Sight Word Book:a. Today you will receive a new paragraph story which contains all the

sight words for the next ten reading lessons.

b. Cut out and glue the paragraph below into your repeated reading sight word book.

c. Make a single illustration to represent the story paragraph.

d. Read all your story paragraphs.

2. Printing Practice

Joke of the Day

How do you stop a runaway dog?

Press paws.

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Reading Lesson for Day Twenty-five

Story: A Nice Idea

I have a nice idea, said mother.

What is your idea? asked father.

Let’s make hearts and give them to people on

Valentine’s Day, said mother.

That is a nice idea, said father.

Let’s give them to friends and neighbors.

Child’s Illustration

Draw a mother and father

with valentine hearts.

3. Story Time:Dino Hockey by Lisa Wheeler

Spelling: Word Families: ook, ay, ight, all, ink, atch, old

1.__________________ 6.____________________

2.__________________ 7.____________________

3.__________________ 8.____________________

4.__________________ 9.____________________

5.________________ 10.___________________

5. Read book from classroom library

Fix the Teacher’s Spelling Mistakes!

1. stayn =___________ 2. cri = _________

3. sillee = _________ 4. blistir = ___________

5. prai = ___________ 6. pou = _____________

7. owt = _________ 8. choo = ___________

9. bakeed = _________ 10. wadeed = __________

NEW Sentence Starter: Size words + plural nouns

Example: Tiny snowflakes swirled to the ground.6. Sentence Writing:

Action Words:floated drifted

twirled swirled

blanketed covered

spun swept

Size Words:

small tiny little

big huge enormous

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7. NEW: Punctuation and Capitalization

NEW: Punctuation and Capitalization *Holidays begin with capital letters.

* Review: Months of the year begin with capitals. Days of the week begin with capitals. Streetnames, cities and provinces start with capital letters . All proper names begin with a capitalletter. The word I is always capitalized. All sentences begin with a capital letter. INSTRUCTIONS: Read the sentences below. Circle the missing capital letters.

Put an exclamation mark, question mark or a period at the end of each sentence.

Lesson 25 is

done.

?1. is it christmas in december

2. did you know easter is in april

3. thanksgiving is in october

4. in november we remember soldiers who died

5. i got a valentine’s day surprise in february

a - a and are as at

about all any

b - be but been by boy

behind build both

c - can come color could

d - do draw day

e -

f - for from funny

g - good go get girl

h - had have he her him

here has

i - I in is it

j/k - know

L - like look little

m - me my

n - new

o - of on one out

p - play put picture

q -

r - ready

s - see some so said surprise

something should says sure

t - that the they this

to then there their tough

u - up us

v - very

w - we with work would was

what who where why walk were

x/y/z - you your

snowflakes