Elementary Tier 2 Manual

First Grade PALS

Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is designed to provide systematic and explicit and instruction in phonological decoding and comprehension practice. PALS should be used skills-based small group instruction for students in groups 2,3,4. The Instructional alignment on the following page describes which lessons to use during skills-based instruction. It may also be used during whole group instruction for at-risk student populations.

First Grade PALS Games for Skills-based instruction: The table below represents the games presented in the 1 st grade PALS program.

First Grade PALS Skill-Based Groups Lesson Routines

This letter’s sound is: ________. Say it with me: ___________. Your turn: _______________.

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Name Game (New Letter Sounds)

Say the (letter) sound

Letter Sounds (Say the Sound)

Stretch it! Stretched (segmenting)

• Watch and listen as I sound out this word. /aaat/. See how I stretch the word by saying each sound without stopping between sounds? Watch me again: /aaat/. • Stretch it with me: ______________ • Your turn: ____________________ • Practice for fluency (***) • When I touch the dot under a letter, you’ll say that letter’s sound. Keep saying that sound until I touch the dot under the next letter.

Sound It Out

Read It!

Let’s read the word: mit Practice for fluency (***)

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New Word Box: Sight Words

The word is: was

Say it with me: ___________. Your turn: _______________. Read all the sight words. Practice for fluency (***)

Read the Sentences

• We have practiced reading sight words and sounding out words in this story. • Let’s read the sentences in the story. • Re-read for fluency

Correction Procedure

That sound is___________ That word is_____________

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Go back three and read them all again.

Phonemic Awareness Mini Lesson (If needed) 3-5 minutes Say it, Tap it, Map it, Write it

• Say it: say the word and students repeat the word. • Tap it: students tap the sounds in the sound boxes. • Map it: students push discs into the individual sounds boxes. • Write it: students write the word in the Elkonin boxes.