Fundations

FUNDATIONS

Unit 1

-       Students will review all letters and sounds.

Unit 2

-       Students will blend, read and spell three sound short vowel words.

-       Students will learn or review by memory: a, and, the. These are called “Trick Words.”

-       Students will learn capitalization, punctuation, and word spacing for sentence dictation.

Unit 3

-       Students will learn that a digraph is two consonants together that make one sound.

sh - ship /sh/    ch – chin /ch/   ck – sock /k/

wh –whiste /wh/       th – thumb /th/

-       Students will review qu queen /kw/

-       New trick words: to, a, was, for , he, is, as, his, has

Unit 4

-       Students will learn the bonus letter rule: When a one syllable word ends in an f, l, or s, a second f, l, or s is added when spelling the word.

-       Students will learn the sound of all as in ball, tall and wall. When there is a bonus letter after the letter a, the sound of a changes.

-       New trick words: you, we, I, they, one, said

Unit 5

-       Students will learn  the glued sounds am- ham- /am/   and an- fan- /an/

-       New trick words: from, or, have

Unit 6

-       Students will learn how to add suffix –s to a baseword. For example, cat is the the baseword in cats.

-       New trick words: were, her, put, there, what, she, been, by, who

Unit 7

-       Students will learn the following glued sounds:

ang - fang - /ang/     ing – ring - /ing/

ong-song-/ong/        ung-lung-/ung/,

 ank-bank-/ank/        ink-pink-/ink/,

onk-honk-/onk/        unk-junk-/unk/

-       New trick words: out, so, are, two, about, into, only, other, new

Unit 8

-       Blends: A blend is two consonants together that each make a sound, as in the word       “s t op”. A blend can be at the beginning or end of a word.

-       New trick words: sock, could, want, say, do, first, any, my, now