Read To Succeed Asheville/Buncombe
  • Home
  • Volunteer
    • Reading Tutor
    • Organizational Volunteer
    • Apply to Volunteer
    • Background Checks
    • Volunteer Login
    • Word Work
  • Family Reading Resources
    • Family Reading Resources
    • Free Reading Apps for Kids
    • Letter Sounds
    • Online Reading Resources
    • Read-Aloud
    • Read-Aloud-PreK
    • Summer Literacy Resources
  • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Page Turners Circle
    • Additional Ways to Give to R2S
  • About Us
    • Our Mission
    • History
    • Early Childhood Literacy
    • The R2S Method
    • Leadership Team
    • Organizational Documents
    • Join the R2S Team
  • News
  • R2S Blog
  • Contact Us

Word Work

LESSON PLAN
The Foundational Skills Lesson Plan makes it easy to plan your tutoring session. Sections include:
  • Letter/sound drills
  • Letter dictation
  • Word build
  • Word dictation
  • Reading a decodable text
  • Sentence dictation
  • Phonemic awareness exercises
Lesson Plan
Picture

Picture
VIDEO: Practice proper consonant pronunciation
VIDEO: Practice proper short vowel pronunciation
VIDEO: Practice proper digraph pronunciation
VIDEO: Practice r-controlled vowel sounds
VIDEO: Practice glued/welded sounds

PHONICS: LETTER/SOUND DRILLS & DICTATION

For the letter/sound drill sections of your lesson, use the Fundations® cueing system.
  • Consonants with keywords (PDF)
  • Short vowels with keywords (PDF)
  • Digraphs with keywords (PDF)
  • Additional keyword/sound sheets (glued/welded sounds, vowel teams, r-control)

VIDEO: Watch Letter/Sound Drill in action!
VIDEO: Watch Letter Dictation in action!

Note: You can also practice letter/sound pronunciation with the OG Card Deck App (free).

WORD BUILD

For the word build and dictation sections of your lesson, use the word lists linked below.
  • First grade words and sentences
  • Second grade words and sentences
  • Third grade words and sentences

Use magnet boards, small sticky notes with a manila folder, or Really Great Reading's free online tile board to practice.

VIDEO: Watch Word Build in action!

Picture

READ A DECODABLE TEXT

Read a decodable text that supports additional practice in the skills covered above with your letter/sound drills and word build. Click the button below to access free online decodable texts.
Online Decodables
VIDEO: Watch reading a decodable text in action >

Picture

PHONOLOGICAL AND PHONEMIC AWARENESS ACTIVITIES

Use the appropriate pages from your Heggerty "Primary Phonics" manual. Scaffold as needed.

Click here to download sample Heggerty pages for practice.

Email olivia.fingold@r2sasheville.org to reserve a copy of the Heggerty "Primary Phonics" manual from the R2S resource library.

Picture
Picture
WORD DICTATION

Procedure:                                    
  1. Tutor says, "My word is ________. Now you say it."
  2. Student repeats the word.
  3. Student taps out the word.
  4. Student writes the word.

VIDEO: Watch Word Dictation in action!

Picture

SENTENCE DICTATION

Procedure:                                    
  1. Tutor says, "My sentence is ________. Now you say it."
  2. Student repeats the sentence.
  3. Student writes the sentence.
Lead students through an editing process afterwards (may not be appropriate for all ages/ability levels at first.)

Picture
Watch helpful tutorial videos on the Heggerty Phonemic Awarness Youtube Channel.

FLORIDA CENTER FOR READING RESEARCH (FCRR) PRINTABLE GAMES

The Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) provides evidence-based tools and games to use with learners who are starting to read.

Click here below to access a folder online where we will be compiling these games for tutors to use.
Our Mission

Read to Succeed is on a mission to help close the race-based opportunity gap through community-powered literacy programming that engages children, families, and community partners.
Get in Touch!

Phone: (828) 747-2277
Email: info@r2sasheville.org
Physical address: 16A Stewart St.
Asheville, NC 28806
(*Note: Our office is located in the Pisgah View Apartments community)
Mailing address:
PO Box 18652
Asheville, NC 28814
tceuzyxzwxwtrrcfrcbttewxrserdrwrtrzqfu
Contact  |  Donate  |  Current Volunteer Login
© 2021 Read To Succeed Asheville/Buncombe
  • Home
  • Volunteer
    • Reading Tutor
    • Organizational Volunteer
    • Apply to Volunteer
    • Background Checks
    • Volunteer Login
    • Word Work
  • Family Reading Resources
    • Family Reading Resources
    • Free Reading Apps for Kids
    • Letter Sounds
    • Online Reading Resources
    • Read-Aloud
    • Read-Aloud-PreK
    • Summer Literacy Resources
  • Donate
    • Contribute
    • Page Turners Circle
    • Additional Ways to Give to R2S
  • About Us
    • Our Mission
    • History
    • Early Childhood Literacy
    • The R2S Method
    • Leadership Team
    • Organizational Documents
    • Join the R2S Team
  • News
  • R2S Blog
  • Contact Us