Phonics
Whole Group Skills Covered:
Kindergarten SIPPS Review Skills:
- CVC Review
(Consonant-Vowel-Consonant) Words
Examples: cat, led, pin, bop, cut
- Digraphs: two letters that make one sound!
ch (beginning sound)
sh (beginning and ending sound)
th (voiced)
th (unvoiced)
wh
First Grade Skills
Red Words Set 1: what, went, was, want, were, does, some, good, there, done
FLSZ 1-1-1 rule
Compound Words with CVC words
VC/CV syllabication
bob/cat
Long Vowels (open syllable)
Multi-Syllable Words
Syllable Division- V/CV and VC/CV
Examples:
rabbit- rab/bit VC/CV
tiger- ti/ger V/CV
Red Words Set 2: her, here, under, down, onto, people, both, saw, should, could
Initial R- Blends
Initial S- Blends
Initial W- Blends
Red Words Set 3: would, over, love, live, out, day, too, eye, all, again
Final T- Blends
Final L-Blends
Remaining Ending Blends
Red Word List 4: boy, girl, sign, your, which, look, also, use, today, yesterday
y as vowel /i/
-ng, -nk endings
-ck /k/ 1-1-1 rule
-tch /ch/
-dge /j/
Magic E
Syllable Division- VC/V
Red Word List 5: first, around, going, walk, say, their, how, once, another, pull
y as /e/
Soft c /s/ and g /j/
-ed /id/ /d/ /t/
Red Word List 6: wash, every, everyone, know, knew, friend, been, our, other
-s /s/ /z/ & -es /iz/
Vowel Teams: ea/ee
Vowel Teams: ai/ay
Vowel Teams: oa/oe
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Sight Words
Students should be able to read these words in a snap and spell them accurately.
Kindergarten Sight Words
Orton-Gillingham Word List
Color/ Number List
First Grade Sight Words
Practice at Home!
- Practice clapping syllables. How many things around the house are one syllable? Two? Can you find something 3 syllables long?
- Practice spelling 1 syllable words (for now!) by tapping each sound.
- For example: cup. Pound and say cup. Then use your non-dominant hand to tap! (Left hand- thumb to pinky, ring, middle. Right hand- thumb to pointer, middle, ring.) Example: cup /c/ /u/ /p/ starting left to right. Then pound cup again. Then spell. (The kids will know how to do this!)
- Practice blending 1 syllable words (for now!)
- You say 3 sounds (can be nonsense words) that are CVC, including learned digraphs. You say /l/ /e/ /t/ and your child blends let. /ch/ /i/ /p/- chip. *Do not do this for "sight words" or words that don't follow sound patterns*
- Have students write sight words or words with practiced sounds on index cards:
- Use word cards/sight word cards to play games!
- Examples: Flip a card and say the word or sound before picking a moving card for CandyLand, before putting a piece for ConnectFour, picking a JENGA piece
- Have your child write sight words on two index cards.
- Now you can play Go Fish, Memory, War, UNO etc as if they are a deck of cards!
- Use word cards/sight word cards to play games!
- Activities from Orton-Gillingham
- Use Bananagram or Scrabble tiles to spell sight words or practice words! Make it into any kind of challenge!