Guidelines for Home Instruction During School Closure

March 16th - March 27th

First Grade Intervention Group

Please use the below website to access wonderful phonemic awareness activities you can complete with your child. Your child is familiar with these activities as we do them daily in class.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lroKByqjBd0&feature=youtu.be

 First Grade Academic Support Class 

Please refer to the letter and packet that was sent home specifically for your child as each packet was slightly modified for each class.  Below are some general guidelines based on what your child received with their packet:

• Have your child practice reading words and sentences on unit review pages
• Have your child read decodable paper books to help reinforce sounds learned.
• Play phonics games to reinforce learned patterns. 
• Students participate in daily phonemic awareness activities. I am sharing an introduction video in which you can use to access daily phonemic awareness activities to work on  with your child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lroKByqjBd0&feature=youtu.be
• Please have your child go on the Reading Eggs website.
• If your packet included a set of word cards they can be used in the following ways
  • Sort by vowels, beginning letter sounds or ending sounds
  • Sort for doubles (ff, ll, ss, zz) 
  • Sort for rhyming words
• Use a flashcards to help support word fluency
• Take 20-25 cards and have your child sort in the following ways:
• If your packet included sight word booklets, please practice and check off the ones your child can read automatically and practice the ones they need help with.  Once your child has mastered one list, please continue through the packet. 
• If your child participates in a weekly fluency race, please have them practice rereading past stories and you can sign their log.

2nd Grade Specialized Reading  

• Your child received a set of word cards which can be used in the  following ways.
  • Sort by vowels, beginning letter sounds or ending sounds
  • Sort for rhyming words
• Use as flashcards to help support word fluency
• Take 20-25 cards and have your child sort in the following ways:
• Have your child read decodable sentences to help reinforce work on reading fluency.
• Students participate in daily phonemic awareness activities. I am sharing an introduction video in which you can use to access daily phonemic awareness activities to work on with your child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lroKByqjBd0&feature=youtu.be
• Play phonics games to reinforce learned patterns.

2nd grade ASP phonics 

• Have your child practice reading words and sentences on unit review pages
• Have your child read decodable paper books to help reinforce sounds learned.
• Play phonics games to reinforce these same patterns. 
• Students participate in daily phonemic awareness activities. I am sharing an introduction video in which you can use to access daily phonemic awareness activities to work on  with your child. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lroKByqjBd0&feature=youtu.be

Please note any of the work sent home for my class is not required but to be used to help reinforce the skills were are currently working on. If you have any questions or need additional information, please do not hesitate to reach out to me via email at kfay@tfschools.org. 

Kelly Fay

Specialized Reading and Writing Teacher