Focus: Unit 4 introduces students to eight new sounds. Through oral language games, chaining exercises, and story demonstrations with the decodable Big Book (Pet Fun), students practice blending these sounds into words. Students also practice previously learned letter-sound correspondences.
Number of Lessons: 15
Lesson Time: 60 minutes each. Each lesson may be divided into shorter segments.
Additional Search Terms: phonemic awareness • blending • segmenting • story demonstration • handwriting
Teacher Guide: Kindergarten Skills Unit 4
This comprehensive Teacher Guide specifies learning objectives and provides background information, daily lesson plans, assessments, and other resources for teaching the Skills unit.
Student Workbook: Kindergarten Skills Unit 4
Student Workbooks contain activity pages that provide practice or reinforcement of skills taught in the unit. Graphic organizers, assessment tasks, and take home activities are also included in the workbooks.
Big Book: Kindergarten Skills Unit 4
Big Books are used to engage students in the reading process. For example, during story demonstration lessons, teachers use Big Books to model important concepts of print, including text directionality, reading from left to right, attentiveness to punctuation, and highlighting the different parts of a book.
Assessment and Remediation Guide: Kindergarten Skills Unit 4
The Assessment and Remediation Guide provides for re-teaching and reinforcement of grade-level objectives that were not mastered in Skill Strand lessons. This online-only resource assists teachers with determining students’ needs, selecting activities and materials that target those needs, adjusting instructional difficulty, and monitoring progress. Use of this resource creates continuity between core classroom and support...
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