Fundations: Level One

made by Wendy Taylor

K-6 Literacy Coach

Orientation: Week 1

-teach students how to echo (manual p.162)

-teach the writing grid (manual p.162)-teach how to follow verbalization

(manual p. 162-163)-teach pencil grip and tracing (manual

p. 163)

WRITING GRID

SKY LINE

PLANE LINE

GRASS LINE

WORM LINE

PENCIL GRIP

Good news…

• Once you are familiar with the following 7 activities, you know all the procedures for unit 1

• Lesson plans taken directly from the manual are typed up for you to use for the entire K level including the orientation and all 5 units

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See video demonstration

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Vowel Extension (see manual p. 94 and appendix to make this chart with Fundation’s pictures)

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play Sound Bingohand out sound cards-students stand if they have letter called

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Let’s look at a typical week in Unit 1!

(lesson plans are typed on template for all 14 units-posted on the wiki)

Day 1Letter-Keyword-SoundSky Write/Letter FormationStudent NotebookEcho/Letter Formation

Day 2Letter-Keyword-SoundDrill SoundsSky Write/Letter FormationStudent NotebookEcho/Letter Formation

Day 3Letter-Keyword SoundDrill SoundsVowel ExtensionSky Write/Letter FormationStudent NotebookEcho/Letter Formation

Day 4Letter-Keyword SoundDrill SoundsVowel ExtensionSky Write/Letter FormationStudent NotebookEcho/Letter Formation

Day 5Drill SoundsMake It FunAlphabetical OrderEcho/Find Letters

Letter-Keyword-Sound Page 167:Introduce sky line letters t, b, f.Use Large and Standard Sound Cards

Letter-Keyword-Sound Page 167:Introduce plane line letters: n, m. Use Large and Standard Sound Cards

Letter-Keyword-Sound Page 167:Introduce: c, a.Use Large and Standard Sound Cards

Letter-Keyword-Sound Page 167:Introduce plane line letters: i, r. Use Large and Standard Sound Cards

Drill Sounds Page 168:Do all introduced sounds.1st practice with Large Sound Cards; then Standard Sound Cards.

Sky Write/Letter Formation Page 168:Follow the Letter Formation Guide instructions in appendix.

Drill Sounds Page 168:Do all introduced sounds.1st practice with Large Sound Cards; then Standard Sound Cards.

Drill Sounds Page 168:Do all introduced sounds.1st practice with Large Sound Cards; then Standard Sound Cards.

Drill Sounds Page 168:Do all introduced sounds.1st practice with Large Sound Cards; then Standard Sound Cards.

Make It Fun Page 169:

Student Notebook Page 168:Direct the students to find the letters that you are working on in the sound section of their Student Notebooks. Direct them to point to one letter at a time.

Sky Write/Letter Formation Page 168:Follow the Letter Formation Guide instructions in appendix.

Vowel Extension Page 169:Use the Keyword Pictures to make a Vowel Extension activity on chart paper on the classroom board.Enlarge Copy from Appendix

Vowel Extension Page 169:Use the Keyword Pictures to make a Vowel Extension activity on chart paper on the classroom board.

Alphabetical Order Page 170:Students order Magnetic Letter Tiles.

Echo/Letter Formation Page 168:Do the new sounds as well as two or three sounds from previous days on Dry Erase Writing Tablets.

Student Notebook Page 168:Direct the students to find the letters that you are working on in the sound section of their Student Notebooks. Direct them to point to one letter at a time.

Sky Write/Letter Formation Page 168:Follow the Letter Formation Guide instructions in appendix.

Sky Write/Letter Formation Page 168:Sky Write Letter-Keyword-Sounds introduced.

Echo/Letter Formation Page 168:Do the new sounds as well as two or three sounds from previous days on Dry Erase Writing Tablets. Student Notebook Page 168: Student Notebook Page 168:

Comments: Comments: Echo/Letter Formation Page 168:Do the new sounds as well as two or three sounds from previous days on Dry Erase Writing Tablets.

Echo/Letter Formation Page 168:Do the new sounds as well as two or three sounds from previous days on Dry Erase Writing Tablets.

Comments:

Comments: Comments:

Fundations Level 1, Unit 1: Week 1Focus: Reviews or teaches letter names, keywords, sounds and lower-case letter formations of letters from a-z.Refer to explanation and/ or script on page number given.Gala D. Co

Unit 2’s new concepts…

• tapping to read words• tapping to spell• sentence reading• sentence dictation(4 weeks long)

New procedures are added at this point---Word of the Day, Word Talk, Trick Words, Echo-Find Letters

and Words Dictation (dry erase and composition)

Students will begin to do dictation in composition books instead of dry erase.

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Unit 3’s new concept is…

• digraphs (wh, ch, sh, th, ck)• how to mark up words

A new procedure in Unit 3 is Story Time.

read ABC books and point out lettersuse baby echo to read a story

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New concepts

Unit 4: ff, ll, ss bonus letters and glued sound -allUnit 5: two new glued sounds –am and –anUnit 6: baseword and suffix –s, pluralsUnit 7: more glued sounds –ang, -ing, -ong, -ung

then –ank, -ink, -onk, -unkUnit 8: difference between blends and digraphs

and also digraph blendsUnit 9: closed syllables

New concepts

Unit 10: blending up to 5 sounds in a closed syllable

Unit 11: switch focus from sounds to syllables, syllable division

Unit 12: suffix ending –esUnit 13: suffix –ed, -ingUnit 14: vowel-consonant-e