The print appears very small. I hope by adjusting your view setting you will be able to see it. As in all classes some children far surpass the expected learnings while others struggle to grasp many of the concepts.
The document below maps out our "Essential Learnings" for the School Year. The print appears very small. I hope by adjusting your view setting you will be able to see it. As in all classes some children far surpass the expected learnings while others struggle to grasp many of the concepts. This year our school opted to use the Letterland resource. Children enjoy the stories and characters and look forward to our daily visits to Letterland. Here is a piece I have taken from their site to help explain more about Letterland. "Letterland is a unique, phonics-based approach to teaching reading, writing and spelling to 3-8 year olds. The Letterland characters transform plain black letter shapes into child-friendly pictograms and they all live in an imaginary place called Letterland. Simple stories about the Letterland characters, explain the full range of dry phonics facts so that children are motivated to listen, to think and to learn. These stories explain letter sounds & shapes, allowing children to progress quickly to word building, reading and writing." The steps 1. Letter Sounds Once you have met the friendly Letterland characters, just start to say their names for the correct letter sound. 2. Letter Shapes Simple stories about the Letterland characters ensure correct letter formation, avoiding confusion over similar looking letters. 3. Action Tricks Actions for the alphabet are linked to each character, forging a strong connection between the action, letter shape and sound. 4. Word Building Blending & segmenting all through words is introduced very early on, covering blends, digraphs and trigraphs. 5. Advanced Spelling Phonics stories give children a friendly logic for remembering all 44 letter sounds and their major spellings. 6. Multi-sensory Learning Letterland activates every learning channel through music, actions, movement, song, art, craft, games and role-play.
Phonological awareness is a large component of our kindergarten literacy instruction in kindergarten. The term "Phonemic Awareness", refers to the understanding of how the sounds work within a word. A phoneme is the smallest part of a word referring to an isolated sound as the /t/ sound in the word "top". Sounds complicated??? Not really. To make it simpler, I have attached a small excerpt from my "go-to" book written by Miriam Trehearne. Please take a look!
http://www.isbe.net/earlychi/pdf/trehearne_chapter_2.pdf
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