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Week of August 30^th-Sepember 3rd

Language Arts

Phono Graphix/Master the code

This week of intensives will be strictly focused on the following areas. Working with each child on an individual level please note that your child will be completing, learning, understanding and participating in the following lessons. Please check your child’s agenda page in the front of their three ring binder for a more specific daily description of goals and lessons taught per day.

Students will be taught Goals in succession , as well as, all students will participate in activities in specific and appropriate levels that associate and correspond per goal. Using Word construction, Word Mapping, Segmenting, Blending, Phoneme Manipulation, Word reading, Word lists, Initial, Vowel and end sound Completion,  Separated sound pictures, Phoneme or sound picture discrimination, overlap in code, Sound search, and spelling,

Basic Code-

Goal one: To understand that letters are pictures of sounds.

Goal two: To know the correspondence between all the sounds and sound pictures that make up  basic code.

Goal three: To understand that spoken words are made up of sounds.

Goal Four: To understand that written words are made up of sound pictures which represent the sounds in words.

Goal Five: To understand that the sound pictures in written words occur in a sequence from left to right.

Goal Six: To segment the sounds in spoken words.

Goal Seven: To blend the sounds in words

Advanced Code-

Goal one: To understand that sometimes two or more letters represent a sound.

Goal two: To understand that most sounds can be represented in more than one way. 

Goal Three: to Understand that there is overlap in the code, that some components of the code can represent more than one sound (example-<o> can spell ‘o’ as in ‘hot’ or ‘oe’ as in ‘most’.

Multisyllable Management-

Goal one: To understand that sometimes words have “chunks” of blended sounds.

Goal two: To understand that chunks of words are determined by linguistics not orthography.

Goal Three: To understand that we read multisyllable words by blending sounds into chunks and then chunks into meaningful words.

Goal Four: To understand that we can spell multisyllable words by building them sounds into chunks and then the chunks into words.

Goal Five: To understand that multisyllable words contain a dominant chunk.

Goal Six: To understand that many multisyllable words contain a weak vowel sound.

Goal Seven: To understand that many multisyllable words have “special endings”