Materials & Resources
- First Readers (your choice from reader vlibrary) on Menu Bar
- Primer vlibrary Your choice of primers on Menu Bar
- How to Teach Phonics (Book) PDF DOC (If this has not been learned yet)
- Flashcard Sight-Words and Activities
- Interactive online book to practice reading (Tara and Ben)
- Report or Reading Report for processing reading
- Choose one of the following:
- Sander's Union Speller pages 1-23
- Swinton's Word Primer Although this is a one year course, it is fine to break it up into several years if that is what your student needs
- Spelling Lessons Worksheets
- Student dictionary for new words.
- Manuscript handwriting Workbook- Maintain skills with More Script practice.
- Optional: blank stationery with nice borders to encourage writing practice
- Three letter Words Flashcards Silent e
- Vowel Teams ar ir er ur Blends More Blends Phonics Charts 1-5
- Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Establishing sight vocabulary flashcards for printing out.
- Simple pantomimes and dramatic play
- Phonics Set From mainlesson.com
Topics to be covered this year
- "Pupils should be required to keep a list of the words which they misspell, and to rewrite them frequently, in sentences and separately (Reed, Alonzo, 1896)."
- Phonetic analysis Beginning Phonics Long AEIOU
- Reading informally: names, labels, signs
- Creating stories and poems
- Telling favorite stories
- Organizing ideas and impressions
- Book reports and critiques: Child can give more detail in summarizing a story.
- Beginning grammar: nouns, verbs, adjectives
- Introduction to punctuation and capitalization
Additional Topics if Time permits
READING
Read to them, and have child repeat the story back to you. Young Canada Reader
- Aesop's Fables
- Alice in Wonderland
- Just So Stories
- Alice Through the Looking-glass
- Mother Goose One Syllable Books
- Sammie and Susie Littletail
- Stories to Tell Children
- Bed Time Stories 1st grade readings
Online Books
Extras:
Supplemental Reading Children's Bible Stories
Adventures of Inky and Gus
Gus and Inky Rhyming Words
Compound Words
"Get ready to Read" Activity Cards
Supplemental Reading Children's Bible Stories
Adventures of Inky and Gus
Gus and Inky Rhyming Words
Compound Words
"Get ready to Read" Activity Cards
Extras II
- Primary Reading and Literature Phonics and early childhood literature guide