WORD ANALYSIS, FLUENCY, AND SYSTEMATIC VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Students read and understand grade-level-appropriate material, identifying the basic facts and ideas in what they have read, heard, or viewed, and drawing upon a variety of comprehension strategies as needed.
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This instructor's handbook provides explicit, step-by-step, easy-to-follow directions on how to teach beginning readers.
This teacher's handbook not only outlines how to teach reading comprehension, but rather, a complete language arts program, including both reading and writing.
WORD ANALYSIS, FLUENCY, AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT
Concepts About Print (Kindergarten)
1.5 Distinguish letters from words
1.6 Recognize and name all uppercase and lowercase letters of the alphabet
Phonemic Awareness
1.7 Track and represent the number, sameness/difference, and order of two and three isolated phonemes
1.8 Track and represent changes in simple syllables and words with two and three sounds as one sound is added, substituted, omitted, shifted, or repeated
1.9 Blend vowel-consonant sounds orally to make words or syllables
1.10 Identify and produce rhyming words in response to an oral prompt
1.11 Distinguish orally stated one-syllable words and separate into beginning or ending sounds
1.12 Track auditorily each word in a sentence and each syllable in a word
1.13 Count the number of sounds and syllables and syllables in words
Decoding and Word Recognition
Recognize and use knowledge of dspelling patterns when reading (Second Grade)
Students learn the /aw/ sound and identify the sound in words.
Students review the letter y and its long e sound through song.
Students review the long vowel sounds of a, e, I, o, u.
Demonstrate fluency with r controlled vowels , high frequency words and quotation marks in reading passage.
Online e-books
1.1 Read narrative and expository text aloud with grade-appropriate fluency and accuracy, and with appropriate pacing, intonation, and expression - 4
written by Marilyn Frankford, illustrated by Gloria Gedeon
written by Sarah Kondon, illustrated by Kevin Sullivan
Vocabulary and Concept Development
1.17 Identify and sort common words in basic categories (e.g., colors, shapes, foods).
1.18 Describe common objects and events in both general and specific language.
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1.17 Classify grade-appropriate categories of words (e.g., concrete collections of animals, foods, toys).
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1.7 Understand and explain common antonyms and synonyms.
1.8 Use knowledge of individual words in unknown compound words to predict their meaning.
1.9 Know the meaning of simple prefixes and suffixes (e.g., over-, un-, -ing, -ly).
1.10 Identify simple multiple-meaning words.
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1.4 Use knowledge of antonyms, synonyms, homophones, and homographs to determine the meanings of words.
Students will be introduced to word analysis by identifying various homophones that sound the same, but are spelled differently, and have different meanings.
1.5 Demonstrate knowledge of levels of specificity among grade-appropriate words and explain the importance of these relations (e.g., dog/ mammal/ animal/ living things).
1.6 Use sentence and word context to find the meaning of unknown words.
1.7 Use a dictionary to learn the meaning and other features of unknown words.
1.8 Use knowledge of prefixes (e.g., un-, re-, pre-, bi-, mis-, dis-) and suffixes (e.g., -er, -est, -ful) to determine the meaning of words.
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1.2 Applying knowledge of word origins, derivations, and idioms to determine the meaning of words and phrases - 4
Students practice using idioms and how they are used in an interactive conversation format.
1.3 Use knowledge of root words to determine the meaning of unknown words within a passage.
1.4 Know common roots and affixes derived from Greek and Latin and use this knowledge to analyze the meaning of complex words (e.g., international).
Common Suffixes
1.5 Use a thesaurus to determine related words and concepts.
1.6 Distinguished and interpret words with multiple meanings.
Skills Handbook