Literacy News from Sarah Pagogna
January 2021 Edition
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Q is for Duck
Sheep in a Jeep
Printable Word Ladder Activity
Assessing Letter/Sound Relationships
Hearing and Recording Sounds- MLPP
https://misd.net/mlpp/assessments/hearingRecordingSounds/HearingRecording-Sounds-A.pdf
DRA Word Task Analysis- Encoding tasks 10, 16, 27, 36, and 40
file:///C:/Users/spagogna/Downloads/DRA%20word%20task%20encoding.pdf
Essential Instructional Practice focus for January- Essential 5 Phonics Instruction
Later, the focus will be on more complex letter-sound relationships, including digraphs (two letters representing one sound, as in sh, th, ch, oa, ee, ie), blends (two or three letters representing each of their sounds pronounced in immediate succession within a syllable, as in bl in blue, str in string, or ft as in left), diphthongs (two letters representing a single glided phoneme as in oi in oil and ou in out), common spelling patterns (e.g., -ake as in cake, rake), specific phonograms (e.g., -all, -ould), and patterns in multi-syllabic words.
High-frequency words are taught with full analysis of letter-sound relationships within the words, even in those that are not spelled as would be expected.
Instruction in letter-sound relationships is:
- verbally precise and involving multiple channels, such as oral and visual or visual and tactile
- informed by careful observation of children’s reading and writing and, as needed, assessments that systematically examine knowledge of specific sound-letter relationships
- taught systematically in relation to students’ needs and aligned with the expectations of the Michigan K-3 Standards for English Language Arts
- accompanied by opportunities to apply knowledge of the lettersound relationships taught by reading books or other connected texts that include those relationships
- reinforced through coaching children during reading, most notably by cueing children to monitor for meaning and by cueing children to attend to the letters in words and recognize letter-sound relationships they have been taught
Take the Perception Survey to check your knowledge and comfort level with Essential 5
Links to previous Literacy Newsletters
September Edition- Essential 1: Motivation and Engagement
October Edition- Essential 3: Small Group InstructionNovember Edition- Essential 4: Phonemic Awareness
December Edition- Essential 6: Writing Instruction
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Email: spagogna@geneseeisd.org
Location: Genesee Intermediate School District, West Maple Avenue, Flint, MI, USA
Phone: 81-394-2431