Optional skills to practice if needed:

• Oral language - 
• Alphabet - letter name identification, letter name fluency, sequencing, Uppercase vs. lowercase
• Handwriting - formation, size, placement

• Letter sound fluency practice
• Review of recently learned spelling patterns

• Blending of sounds to read real and nonsense words
• Blending with prefixes and suffixes
• Review of syllable types learned

• Review of recently learned skills
• Review of skills that student is struggling to master
• Reading words, phrases, and sentences

• Fluent reading of high frequency words
• Practice spelling high frequency words
• Reading high frequency words used in phrases

• Through guided practice student discovers and learns a new...
  • sound-spelling
  • spelling pattern
  • prefix
  • suffix

The Guided Discovery method uses a 5 part routine...

1. Preview - Teacher activates prior knowledge with guided questions.
2. Auditory Discovery - Student listens for the new concept in spoken words.
3. Visual Discovery - Student sees the new concept in written words.
4. Kinesthetic Discovery - Student uses mouth and hand movements to practice the new concept.
5. Review - Student restates what they just learned in their own words

• Practice manipulating and reading words with the new concept.

• Use the new skill in connected text.
• Practice reading sentences or paragraphs with the new skill.

• Manipulate sounds in spoken words.
• Use manipulatives to gain knowledge level skills in Phonemic manipulation
• Practice for automaticity in skills where knowledge level has already been attained.

• Write spellings for recently learned sounds when given orally.

• Write words using recently learned skills.
• Break multisyllabic words into syllables or parts (prefix, base, suffix) to spell.
• Follow a three step procedure for accurate word spelling.
  • Tap the sounds in the word.
  • Tap the letters to spell the word.
  • Write the word while saying the sounds or letters.

• Write sentences using new concepts and previously learned a concepts.
• Self edit sentences for capitalization, origination, punctuation, and spelling.