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

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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).

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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!

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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 >

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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.

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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!

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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.)

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

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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.