Unit 4 continues to builds on the foundational skills introduced in the first three units. Students continue to building their phonemic awareness skills through sound manipulation activities and identifying and creating rhymes. Students are also continue to learn digraphs and long vowel sounds, as well as common ending sound combinations. Students expand their understanding of syllables and learn about open and closed syllables and how that impacts how we decode words.
Within 12 lessons, students will learn the following letter sounds/letter combinations:
z, qu, ing, ng, ph, kn, all, and long vowel sounds e, u, y
Children continue to develop their reading skills through decodable words and stories for each lesson in their workbook. Word activities become more advanced and students continue to develop beginning spelling skills. Reading comprehension is encouraged through drawing pictures to the stories presented in each lesson. Students can also read a multi-part decodable book by the end of this unit.
This zip file includes:
- Pre-assessment (for students who have already had reading instruction)
- Curriculum overview for parents, including the full curriculum scope and sequence, sample weekly schedules and frequently asked questions
- Teacher book for unit 4
- Two student workbooks
- Letter squares for word building activities
- Initial sound picture cards for the letters introduced in the unit
- Picture and words matching cards for activities
- 3 Decodable story books that children will read throughout the unit.
