Fundations Skills (by unit) Orientation (1 week) We suggest you ...
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<strong>Fundations</strong> <strong>Skills</strong><br />
(<strong>by</strong> <strong>unit</strong>)<br />
<strong>Orientation</strong><br />
(1 <strong>week</strong>)<br />
<strong>We</strong> <strong>suggest</strong> <strong>you</strong> follow the <strong>Orientation</strong> exactly as planned out in the manual<br />
so <strong>you</strong> can become accustomed to the <strong>Fundations</strong> program. (p. 64-68)<br />
*Please omit Day 5 as <strong>you</strong> will be using Handwriting without Tears for<br />
cursive instruction.<br />
write/right<br />
Unit 1<br />
(2 <strong>week</strong>s)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 1:<br />
Review closed syllable concept (p.75)<br />
Teach the spelling of the /k/ sound (p.76)<br />
Teach the new sound and spelling of tch (p.76-77)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 2:<br />
Review glued sounds +all (p.78)<br />
Review closed exceptions (p.78-79)<br />
(mention as needed: Teach /o/ sound of A p. 77)<br />
know/no<br />
which/witch<br />
Unit 2<br />
(3 <strong>week</strong>s)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 1:<br />
Review concept of plurals -s, -es (p. 95)<br />
Review concept of vowel suffix and consonant suffix (p. 96)<br />
Review suffix -ed (p. 96-97)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 2:<br />
Teach how to identify 1-1-1 words (p.97-98)<br />
Teach 1-1-1 spelling rule (p. 98)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 3:<br />
Review 1-1-1 spelling rule (p. 99)<br />
Teach 1-1-1 spelling rule with x (p. 99)<br />
son/sun<br />
some/sum<br />
banned/band<br />
guest/guessed<br />
missed/mist
Unit 3<br />
1 <strong>week</strong><br />
Review vowel-consonant-e syllable (p. 117)<br />
Review spelling of /k/ sound in v-e syllables (p. 119)<br />
Teach reading of two-syllable words with closed and v-e syllables (p. 121)<br />
(mention as needed: Review the sound /z/ p. 118-119)<br />
***Teaching written spelling option procedure can be done during word study<br />
time or taught as a mini-lesson during Writing Workshop. (p.120)<br />
plain/plane<br />
***Please begin reviewing second grade vowel teams during Sound Drill.<br />
Unit 4<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 1:<br />
Review vowel-consonant-e exception: ive (p. 135)<br />
Review reading of v-e words with suffixes (p. 136)<br />
Teach silent e spelling rule (p. 136)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 2:<br />
Teach spelling (p.137)<br />
Teach identifying base word for reading (p. 137)<br />
mail/male<br />
mind/mined<br />
find/fined<br />
Unit 5 dictionary skills (p. 153-155)<br />
(*teach when most appropriate for <strong>you</strong>r class)<br />
(*Mention as needed: Teaching schwa)<br />
weather/whether<br />
father/farther<br />
2
Unit 6<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 1:<br />
Teach open syllable (p. 169)<br />
Teach combining open syllables with closed and/or<br />
vowel-consonant-e syllables (p. 169-170)<br />
Reteach y saying /i/ at the end of a one-syllable word<br />
(p. 170-171)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 2:<br />
Teach schwa in an open syllable with a (p. 173)<br />
(*mention as needed: Teach schwa in an open syllable<br />
with i p. 174-175)<br />
hi/high<br />
<strong>by</strong>/buy/<strong>by</strong>e<br />
oh/owe<br />
*********Please note we are skipping ahead*********<br />
Unit 9<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 1:<br />
Teach r-controlled sounds (p. 231-233)<br />
Teach r-controlled syllable exceptions (p. 233)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 2:<br />
Teach 1-1-1 spelling rule with r-controlled syllables<br />
(p. 236)<br />
(*mention as needed: Teach /er/ sound for ar and or p. 234-235. Teach war and<br />
wor p. 235)<br />
heard/herd<br />
berry/bury<br />
warn/worn<br />
Unit 10<br />
3 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
Teach Unit 10 as written, but place less emphasis on: eigh, ei, ea (as in bread and<br />
steak)<br />
led/lead<br />
break/brake<br />
sail/sale<br />
pail/pale<br />
3
Unit 11<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
Contractions<br />
This <strong>unit</strong> can be flexibly placed during the year. However, it should be taught<br />
before the Reading MCAS.<br />
Be sure to teach the terminology and skills within the <strong>unit</strong>, but feel free to adapt it<br />
to make it more hands on.<br />
it’s/its<br />
there/their/they’re<br />
Unit on<br />
Prefixes<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
Please refer to Prefix documents.<br />
*********Please note we are skipping back*********<br />
Unit 7<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
Unit 8<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
Teach Unit 7 as written.<br />
flour/flower<br />
thrown/throne<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 1:<br />
Review consonant -le syllable type (p. 209)<br />
<strong>We</strong>ek 2:<br />
Spell consonant-le syllables with suffixes (p. 212-213)<br />
(*mention as needed: spell /k/ words p. 210<br />
Teach consonant-le exception p. 211-212<br />
Final syllable with schwa vs. consonant -le p. 212)<br />
principal/principle<br />
wear/where<br />
weight/wait<br />
<strong>week</strong>/weak<br />
meet/meat<br />
*********Please note we are skipping ahead*********<br />
4
Unit 12<br />
2 <strong>week</strong>s<br />
Unit 13<br />
Teach Unit 12 as written.<br />
cell/sell<br />
peace/piece<br />
cent/sent/scent<br />
scene/seen<br />
Teach as written if time permits.<br />
knew/new<br />
knight/night<br />
knows/nose<br />
Unit 14<br />
1 <strong>week</strong><br />
Teach tion and sion (p. 235)<br />
stationary/stationery<br />
eight/ate<br />
straight/strait<br />
side/sighed<br />
5
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