Highline Public Schools Kindergarten Word Study Guide

The intentional instruction you provide in foundational literacy skills within the context of a rich balanced literacy program will set students on a trajectory toward success in reading and writing. The purpose of this document is to give you the resources you need to teach kindergarten students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in this document are designed with that in mind. This guide includes routines with sample instructional language to use during lessons.

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Unit of Study

Author: Daniel Ervin

Highline Public Schools Second Grade Word Study Guide

The intentional instruction you provide in foundational literacy skills within the context of a rich balanced literacy program will set students on a trajectory toward success in reading and writing. The purpose of this document is to give you the resources you need to teach second grade students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in this document are designed with that in mind. This guide includes routines with sample instructional language to use during lessons.

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Module, Unit of Study

Author: Daniel Ervin

Highline Public Schools First Grade Word Study Guide

The intentional instruction you provide in foundational literacy skills within the context of a rich balanced literacy program will set students on a trajectory toward success in reading and writing. The purpose of this document is to give you the resources you need to teach first grade students the phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, and sight-word-recognition skills that will empower them to become confident, competent and thoughtful readers and writers. Instruction in phonological awareness, phonics, and sight words can and should be fun, fast-paced, and brief. The lessons in this document are designed with that in mind. This guide includes routines with sample instructional language to use during lessons

Material Type: Full Course, Lesson, Module, Unit of Study

Author: Daniel Ervin

Grade K: Reading Foundations Skills Block: Module 4

Grade K: Module 4 of the EL Education K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, part of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The Skills Block provides one hour of structured phonics instruction, to be taught alongside Module Lessons and Labs. For more information on getting started with the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-skills-blocks.

Material Type: Module

Author: EL Education

Grade 2: Reading Foundations Skills Block: Module 2

Grade 2: Module 2 of the EL Education K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, part of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The Skills Block provides one hour of structured phonics instruction, to be taught alongside Module Lessons and Labs. For more information on getting started with the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-skills-blocks.

Material Type: Module

Author: EL Education

Grade 1: Reading Foundations Skills Block: Module 2

Grade 1: Module 2 of the EL Education K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, part of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The Skills Block provides one hour of structured phonics instruction, to be taught alongside Module Lessons and Labs. For more information on getting started with the K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block, visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-skills-blocks.

Material Type: Module

Author: EL Education

Storyline Online

Your favorite read aloud read by your favorite actors.

Material Type: Reading

Author: Screen Actors Guild

Color Re

Introduces color words and recognition to students through shared reading, color song and rhyme, and guided activity. Students will sort color stickers into color coded worksheet that they create. Time permitting, students will also use an iPad app to identify and sort colors and sort pom-poms by color.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Veronica McKee

Color Recognition & Sort

Introduces color words and recognition to students through shared reading, color songs, rhymes and fingerplays and whole group activity. Students will sort colored cereal onto color sorting mat handout. Time permitting, students will also use an iPad app to identify and sort colors and sort pom-poms by color using various materials. Extensions of lesson include: independent color recognition matching game and color games called Color Crazy and Monster Smash which are partner/group activities.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Amber Hansen

1st Grade "OR", "OAR", "ORE" Spelling Patterns

This Lesson Plan was created by Molly Simpson. The attached Lesson Plan is designed for Grade 1 English Language Arts students. Students will be able to understand and spell the words using their knowledge of the various spellings of the same sound: "oar, "or", and "ore". This Lesson Plan can be used with small group instruction or with a whole class. This lesson plan adresses the following NDE Standards: . It is expected that this Lesson Plan will take students 20 to 80 minutes to complete depending on the use of small group or large group instruction.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Molly Simpson

Beginning Sounds

This is practice for students to match beginning sounds to pictures. They will practice identifying the beginning sound and then finding the matching letter. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Homework/Assignment

Author: Mallory Durden

A-Hunting We Will Go: Teaching Rhyming Through Musical Verse

Adapting the song "A-Hunting We Will Go," students put a "whale" in a "pail" and even "take a little "bear" and hug it if we "dare"."

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

Blend Phonemes, Practice Long "I"

Blend phonemes and practice long "i" sounds with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Scretching-Cole. Students will practice blending and reading with the long "i" sound with a focus on the "igh" and "-y" spelling.

Material Type: Interactive, Lesson

Author: PBS Learning Media

Segment Sounds and Review Words with Long "O" and Long "I"

Review words with long "o" and long "i" sounds with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Vida Nazemian. Students will segment words, break words into their individual sounds, review vowel teams for long "o" and long "i", and build, blend, and read words and sentences.

Material Type: Interactive, Lesson

Author: PBS Learning Media

Review Long "A" and Contractions

Segment sounds, and review long "a" and contractions with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Trinette Carruthers.

Material Type: Interactive, Lesson, Lesson Plan

Author: PBS Learning Media

Practice Long "E"

Read words with the long "e" sound with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Stretching-Cole. Students will blend words and read words with a specific focus on the long "e" sound (ee, ea).

Material Type: Activity/Lab

Author: PBS Learning Media

Reading Fluency for Language and Literacy

This unit is designed to prepare teacher candidates to assess and instruct students to improve reading fluency in a K-5th grade classroom. In the unit, participants will learn about the three components of fluency, consider the impact of fluency in relation to comprehension, and investigate strategies leading to reading fluency using a structured literacy approach to teaching reading. The total time to complete this assignment is approximately 6 hours. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: Elizabeth Quezada

Poetry Portfolios: Using Poetry to Teach Reading

Teach your students about sentence structure, rhyming words, sight words, vocabulary, and print concepts using a weekly poem.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan

The power of the Powwow narrative

A resource for teaching literacy and cultural resilience. By Stephany Anderson, Ed. D.  (submitted on her behalf) 

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Alisa Cook

FreeReading Intervention A

FreeReading is an open source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. FreeReading contains, Intervention A, a 40-week scope and sequence of primarily phonological awareness and phonics activities that can support and supplement a typical kindergarten or first grade "core" or "basal" program.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Full Course, Lesson Plan, Reading, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Holt, Laurence, et. al.