Short A | Kim’s Surprise Story

Phonics Focus

  • Short a Sound
  • Digraph CK

Scope and Sequence
Read Aloud
Student Book

1-no-group

1

Build Listening Comprehension

Familiarize your readers with the characters, settings, and events that they will encounter in the Student Book.
Read Aloud Book
Read Aloud Book
2

Prepare to Read

Foster skills for decoding and sight word recognition to apply in the Student Book.
Sounds in Words
Sounds in Words
Words Are Made of Sounds
Words Are Made of Sounds
What’s My Word?
What’s My Word?
Change My Word
Change My Word
My Fast Words
My Fast Words
3

Give Feedback: 1st Read

Focus on accuracy of reading the words in the text.
Cover Detectives
Cover Detectives
Read on My Own
Read on My Own
4

Develop Meaning: 2nd & 3rd Read

Support fluency and comprehension.
Reread Together
Reread Together
Let’s Talk about It
Let’s Talk about It
Tell Me What Happened
Tell Me What Happened
5

Support Language

Reinforce sentence structure, grammar, and academic language.
Cloze My Sentence
Cloze My Sentence
Sentence Smash
Sentence Smash
Talk Like a Teacher
Talk Like a Teacher
6

Practice Word Fluency

Practice reading more words to build fluency and automaticity.
My CK Words
My CK Words
7

Assessment

Monitor your readers’ word recognition skills to determine next steps.
Show off What You Know
Show off What You Know