KB ELA Sample by Classical School Solutions

PHONICS PRACTICE •Review all sounds of the first 26 Phonograms. Review all sounds of vowels. •Learn beginning and endings blends. Learn phonograms QU, EE, TH, SH, AR, CK HANDWRITING PRACTICE •Review and practice proper letter stroke formation for all lowercase letters. •Review and practice proper letter stroke formation for all uppercase letters. •Letters taught are grouped by stroke and not alphabetical order. COPYWORK NURSERY RHYMES “Little Tom Tucker Sings for his supper”, “Little Girl with a Curl”, “Rain Rain Go Away” “Rub a Dub Dub Three Men In a Tub”, “To Market to Market to Buy a Fat Pig”, “Bye Baby Bunting”, “1,2,3,4,5, I Caught a Hare Alive”, “Rock a bye baby”, “Sulky Sue” READ ALOUD Danny the Dinosaur, Happy Birthday Danny the Dinosaur, Danny the Dinosaur Goes to Camp, Mouse Soup, Old Tales Retold, Stone Soup, A House is a House For Me, Millions of Cats, Frog Went a Courtin, Happy Lion, Petunia, Over in the Meadow, Miss Rumphius PICTURE STUDY

SAMPLE LEVEL KB

TEACHER’S NOTES

Lesson 20A, 20B, 20C, 20D

Phonograms/Sounds we are working on this week: Beginning Blends [cl], [cr], short vowel sounds Handwriting: Top Line Letters B, H, Clock Letters C, O Review High Frequency Words: My, you, by, to, be, as.

Sandpaper letters • Have the student use their index (pointer) finger to trace the letters in the exact motions used to write on paper String • Have the student create the letters using a piece of yarn (red or dark blue) – 3-6” in length Sandbox • Create a sand tray or sand box using colored sand with a different colored tray or box (white tray/blue sand) • Demonstrate to the student using their index finger to create the letters or words in the sand. Create the letters as you would on paper (same strokes). Jump and Clap Game • Show a card with the letter of the alphabet. Have the student jump and clap, saying the sound out loud. Playdough • Demonstrate to the student creating the letters with playdough. Say the sound as they roll the dough into

If students are struggling with Apricot Readers, have them continue with Goldenrod Readers until they show mastery. Students should practice with the readers repeatedly and can take paper copies home. Repetition is key!

To Print • Worksheets • Letter Tiles

Notes

Readers Apricot Set 11-20 • 11. Clap for Clem: Clap for Clem, Nab the Crab

Read Aloud

Lesson 20

• The read aloud book this week is “Danny the Dinosaur” Part 1 By Author Syd Hoff • You may wish to stop and discuss the characters or have your student retell parts of the story. • Have your student color the picture below.

Lesson 20A

Phonics Have the student point to the phonograms and say their sounds.

Reading Warm Up: Have your child point to each phonogram and say the sounds.

Reading Warm Up: Have your child point to each phonogram and say the sounds. Reading Warm Up:Up: Have your child point to to each phonogram and say thethe sounds. Reading Warm Have phonogram and say sounds. Reading Warm Up: Have your your child child pointpoint to each each phonogram and say the sounds.

-Auditory Exercise-

Blending

Say to the student: I’m going to say four sounds. I want you to • /b/+/r/+/a/+/d/ = brad put the sounds together to say a word. Each time you say a • /c/+/l/+/i/+/p/ = clip sound, put one finger up. Then say the sounds together. The Sight Word Practice: word. sounds are /b/, /l/, /o/,Point /b/. to each word above and have the child say the sight = flex • /f/+/l/+/e/+/x/

3 /b/

3 /l/

/o/

/b/

• /b/+/r/+/a/+/g/ = brag = blot • /b/+/l/+/o/+/t/ 2 2

3 = blob

Sight Word Practice: Point to each word above and have the child say the sight word.

New High Frequency Words

Sight Word Practice: Point to each word above and have the child say the sight word.

Say to the student: High Frequency words are words that we use a lot and they might not follow common sound rules. You will be able to sound out some of these words. Remember when you see a number above the letter it tells you which sound the letter is making. Sly Y is very tricky. Sly Y pretends to be a vowel.

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Lesson 20A

Phonics

Beginning Blends c+l Read to the student: Now we will work on more blends. Blends are two or more consonants that each say their own sound but say them very close together. Point to the first word below with the c+l blend and have the student practice saying the blend after you. Make sure they say the sounds the letters make together and not the letter names.

c-l-a-m clam

c-l-a-p clap

c-l-i-p clip

c-l-a-n clan

c-l-u-b club

c-l-o-g clog

Read to the student: Practice reading the sentences below.

c-r-a-m c-r-a-b It is a ham. cram crab

c-r-u-x crux

c-r-i-b c-r-a-g It is a clam. crib crag

c-r-u-d crud

Lesson 20A

Handwriting Trace the dashed lines.

Slant Stroke Letters Slant Down Read to the student: Today we will practice slant stroke letters. Slant stroke letters begin at the midline and slant down to the baseline. Today’s Slant Line letter is W. W says /w/. Remember to practice the sound as you write.

Trace and color the fish.

Lesson 20B

Phonics Have the student point to the phonograms and say their sounds.

-Auditory ExercisePhoneme Deletion Say to the student: I’m going to say a word. Then I’m going to ask you to take away part of the word and tell me what is left. For Example: If I say “flip”, now take away the /f/ what is left? “flip” take away /f/, is lip. “Lip” is the answer.

• blab - /b/ = (lab) • clap - /c/ = (lap) • stick - /t/ = (tick) • grip - /g/ = (rip) • brag - /b/ = (rag)

Read to the student: Trace and fill in the missing letters below. Sound out the word as you write.

Read to the student: Rewrite the word crab below but leave out the /r/. Then read your new word.

Read to the student: Rewrite the word crib below but leave out the /c/. Then read your new word.

Read to the student: Rewrite the word club below but leave out the /l/. Then read your new word.

c-l-a-n clan

Phonics

c-l-u-b club

Beginning Blends c+r

c-l-o-g clog

Lesson 20B

Read to the student: Now we will work on more blends. Blends are two or more consonants that each say their own sound but say them very close together. Point to the first word below with the c+r blend and have the student practice saying the blend after you. Make sure they say the sounds the letters make together and not the letter names.

c-r-a-m cram

c-r-a-b crab

c-r-u-x crux

c-r-i-b crib

c-r-a-g crag

c-r-u-d crud

Read to the student: Practice reading the sentences below.

It is a crab.

The crab is on it.

The crab is in it.

Lesson 20B

Handwriting Trace the dashed lines.

Slant Stroke Letters Slant Down Draw six little fish in the bowl.

Read to the student: Today we will practice slant stroke letters. Slant stroke letters begin at the midline and slant down to the baseline. Today’s Slant Line letter is X. X says /ks/. Remember to practice the sound as you write.

Nursery Rhyme

Lesson 20B

Say the poem together daily and have the students learn by heart for recitation. Recitation Is recommended for the end of the week. Have the students recite the poem chorally and a few students can be selected to present the poem in a small group or individually.

There was a little girl who had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead; When she was good, she was very, very good, And when she was bad she was horrid. Oral Exercise — The word “horrid” means very bad, not nice at all. Have you ever been horrid? Have your teacher or parent read the first line again. Can you tell which two words rhyme? ©2023 Classical School Solutions

Lesson 20C

Phonics Have the student point to the phonograms and say their sounds.

Alphabet Alliteration Say to the student: I’m going to say a silly sentence. It is an alliteration. That means that most of the words will start with the same sound. I want you to listen to the words and then tell me what sound most of the words start with. Example: Silly Sammy steals seals. Silly, Sammy, steals and seals all start with /s/.

• Dolly digs daffodils at dawn. • Nelly nibbles neon noodles. • Freddy found furry frogs. • Paper pandas pet pink pigs. • Red rabbits race rockets rarely.

Read to the student: Trace and fill in the missing letters below. Sound out the word as you write.

Read to the student: Rewrite the word crab below but leave out the /c/. Then read your new word.

Read to the student: Rewrite the word crib below but leave out the /c/. Then read your new word.

Read to the student: Rewrite the word club below but change the /i/ to an /a/. Then read your new word.

Phonics

Lesson 20C

Read to the student: Study the picture below and then read the words in the box . Put a token (pasta, beans, coins etc.) on words that you can find in the picture.

crab crag hat clap cat clip sat crib clog

Lesson 20C

Handwriting Trace the dashed lines.

Clock Stroke Letters

cogdasf

Read to the student: Clock stroke letters all start at 2 O’clock and go around the clock. Today’s clock stroke letter is C. C says /k/ /s/. Remember to practice the sounds as you write. Trace the C’s and then write one of your starting on the dot.

Trace and color the crab.

Lesson 20D

Phonics Have the student point to the phonograms and say their sounds.

Dictation: Read to the student: I am going to dictate three sentences to you. You will write the words you hear in the boxes provided. Then match each sentence with the right picture. 1. “It is a crab. /c/r/a/b/. 2. “The crab is on it. /i/t/. 3. “The crab is in it.” /i/n/.

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Lesson 20D

Phonics

Read to the student: Read all of the c+l and c+r blends below. Have the student point to each pail and sound out each word. Have the student do this for all pails on the path. Then, say to the student: Find a pail with sunglasses IN it. Find a pail with a crab BEHIND it.

crab

crib club clog

clam

cram

clap

clan crag crud

clip crux

Handwriting

Lesson 20D

Trace the dashed lines.

Clock Stroke Letters

cogdasf

Trace and color the hot dog.

Picture Study

Lesson 20D

Read to the student: Let’s explore this picture. How many children are in the picture? Do you see any animals in the picture? What are the children looking at? What are the children sitting in? Find a bird. Find two hats. Find a shovel. Find a pail. What color do you see more of in the painting Blue or red?