Grade One

”So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky”
        - William James.

Program Goals and Objectives

Phonemic Awareness

Children will be able to hear and identify individual sounds – phonemes – in the initial position of spoken words. More specifically, they will be able to:

  • Identify the letter sound at the beginning of a word, from a list of four orally presented words in the initial position of a word i.e. pit, pig, pat, poke = /p/.
  • Recognize a letter sound at the beginning of a word that is different from a list of orally presented words i.e. dog, dice, cat, dance.
  • Identify and say the first sound of an orally presented word i.e. what is the first sound you hear at the beginning of the word dog? The sound is /d/.

Phonics

Children will able to recognize the relationship between written letters and spoken sounds. They will be able to:

  • Identify the correct written letter on a sheet of paper from an orally presented letter sound i.e. teacher says /k/ and student can identify the letter ‘c’.
  • Name the correct letter sound when shown a letter written on a sheet a paper i.e. teacher shows the letter ‘c’ and student says the sound /k/.

Children will be able to identify and recognize:

  • the short a, e, i, o, u and the consonants b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, y, z in the initial position of a spoken word;
     
  • the consonants x, d, g, p, l b, f, k, t, s, n and m in the final position of a spoken word.
  • the blends cl, cr, dr, gl, gr, pl, pr, bl, br, ft, fr, tr, tw, sc, scr, sk, sl, sm, sn, sp, spr, spl st, str squ and sw in the initial position of a spoken word.
  • the blends sk, st, pt, nt, sp, lt, lk, lf, ld, lp, ft, ct, mp and nd in the final position of a spoken word.
  • The digraphs au, aw, a before l, oo , ng, n before k, sh, ch, ay, ai, ue, ew, ea, ie, ee, ow, oa, oe, wr, ph, gn, kn, and ea.
  • The dipthong oi, oy, ou and ow.
  • The trigraph tch, dge and igh.
  • Long a, long u, long i, and long o.

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