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FUNDATIONS

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A COMBINED APPROACH TO EARLY LITERACY

Using:• LIPS, • Fundations, • Orton-Gillingham,• Co-teaching and teamwork• And desperation.

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Fundations is research based!

Fundations is systematic:

It follows a very definite sequence.It follows a very definite procedure

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Fundations is explicit:

It doesn’t leave room for guessing.

It teaches all concepts directly.

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Fundations is kinesthetic:

That means we MOVE!

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We learn sounds using

keywords.

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noisy

lip poppers

quiet

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quietlip coolers

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quiettip tappers

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Tongue scrapers

noisy

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lifter

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Skinny Air

noisy

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We learn the vowels using motions and keywords.

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WHAT’S A DIGRAPH?A digraph is 2 consonants

stuck together making one new sound!

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Fat Air

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Quiet Fat Pushed Air

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Stick that tongue out!

Tongue cooler

AND WHAT ABOUT THAT “CK”…

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Has the ‘k’ sound at the end

Has one syllable

Has a short vowel

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Tricky

Digraphs

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What is a chicken

letter and who is its buddy?

We blend words by tapping the individual sounds!

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d i g

WHAT DO WE TAP?• We tap out the sounds we hear, or what

you can sound out.• These are words like ‘cat’, ‘cake’, ‘bell’.• We tap with our right hand only. • The cue is “right, red, ready”.• This is the foundation for word analysis.

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WHAT DON’T WE TAP?• We don’t tap trick words, we “pound”

them out on our left arm.• These are words we can’t sound out.• The letters in the words trick us, such as

“of”. It sounds like “uv”, but it’s spelled “of”.

• Some other trick words: you, said, could, after, also

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We learn about word structure and sentence

structure.

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Did Rick get a red rash?

WE ASK A LOT OF QUESTIONS:• How many words did you write?• How many letters are in the word?• How many digraphs?• How many consonants?• Tell me the ‘ck’ rule.• Tell me the rule for the bonus

letters.

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THE RULES FOR ‘C’ AND ‘K’:

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a a o u

meow

k i e

If ‘c’ steals one of ‘k’s vowels, ‘c’ has to sound like ‘s’, as in ‘city’.

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Spelling Rule: -ss, -ll, -ff, -zz (bonus letters)

The sound comes at the end of the word (s, l, f, z)

It has 1 syllable

It has a short vowel

Double the final consonant

Sammy Loves Fried Zebras.

• fuss

• fill• puff

• buzz

Some Sammy words…

• These are vowel/consonant combinations that share portions of each sound.

• They are nasal sounds, with one letter drawing the other letter sound(s) into the nose and making the sounds come out “glued together”.

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GLUED SOUNDS

all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, & unk

SUSAN WOZNIAKEmail:swozniak@twinsburg.k12.oh.us

Website:http://www.twinsburg.k12.oh.us/

At the Wilcox Primary School page under :*Classrooms*Reading*Sue Wozniak

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