Week/

Month

Content

 

Skills for Student Achievement

Assessment

Performance Standards Addressed

Sept.

·         Decoding

·         Identify all upper and lower case letters

·         Generate all consonant sounds,

       short and long vowel sounds

 

·         Written test

·         Oral test

·         Teacher conference

·         Small group guided reading

·         IA1

·         IA3

Sept. - May

·         Phonemic awareness

·         Identify and repeat initial, medial, and final sounds in single syllable words

·         Identify and repeat consonant blends and digraphs

·         Differentiate between long and short vowel sounds

·         Identify vowel teams and r-controlled sounds

·         Add, delete, or change target sounds to make or change words (cow to how, tan to tap)

·         Identify isolated sounds in words (/c/ a/ t/ =cat)

·         Written test

·         Oral test

·         Teacher conference

·         Small group guided reading

·         IA4

·         IA3

·         IA5

·         IA7

Sept. - May

·         Decoding and word recognition

·         Generate the sounds from all letters and letter patterns

·         Blend sounds into words

·         Apply knowledge of sounds and blending to make and read new words

·         Identify syllables (open, closed, V-E, R-controlled, V team)

·         Read compound words and contractions

·         Recognize root words and suffixes (-ing, -s, -ed, -es, -er)

·         Read common phonemes 

·         (-ite, -ate, -ick, -ay,…)

·         Written test

·         Oral test

·         Teacher conference

·         Small group guided reading

·         Word wall

·         Journals

·         IA3

·         IA4

·         IA5

·         IA6

Sept. - May

·         Spelling

·         Find different spelling patterns

·         Find correct spelling of an unknown word                                                     

·         Spell grade-appropriate high frequency words correctly

·         Spell 3-4 letter words correctly

·         Word wall

·         Spelling tests

·         Journals

·         IIC6

·         IA8

·         IIC5

·         IIC7

 

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