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First Grade Reading |
December/January |
| These are the reading skills your first grader will be learning this month. At Taku we use the ASD reading program developed by Houghton Mifflin publishers. |
| Target Skills |
November |
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| Phonemic Awareness:
The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the individual sounds in spoken words. It also includes work with rhymes, words, syllables, and onsets (the onset of bag is b ). and rimes (the rime of bag is ag). |
Blending sounds together
to make
words. Separating and counting sounds in words. |
| Phonics/Decoding: The using the systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken sounds to read words. |
Blending short a,e, and u
words Words with l and r clusters like clap and dress. Learning sounds for sh,ch,th, wh, and tch. Final blends nd, ng, nk, and like send, bang, and bank . |
| Comprehension: Understanding what has been read. |
Skills: compare and
contrast, sequence of events, drawing conclusions, cause and effect Strategies: summarizing, evaluate, question, monitor/clarify |
| Fluency: Reading smoothly with normal speaking pace, phrasing, and expression. |
Demonstrated by teacher. Developed by repeated readings of familiar text. Repeated readings of stories that are at child's instructional level. |
| Vocabulary: Understanding the meaning of words used in speaking and reading. It is a very important part fo comprehension. |
Words in the following
topics will be developed: sensory, exclamatory, question, noise, size,
social studies, weather, state and country names, and antonyms |
| High Frequency Words: Words that occur most often in stories and often do not sound out. They must be recognized by sight. (Examples are: the, you, how). |
children, come, family,
father, love, mother, people, picture, you, know, friend, play, read,
she, sing, today, write, car, down, hear, hold, hurt, learn, their,
walk, would, grow, long, light more, other, right, room, small,
these, could, house, how, over, own, her, little, try, was, our,
fly. |
| Spelling and Phonics: Using letters, letter clusters, word roots, vowel patterns, prefixes and suffixes to correctly spell words. |
Short vowels: a, e, u. Words spelled with sh and ch Long a and i sound. |
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