Kindergarten Instructional Guide

Kindergarten Fall Focus of Instruction & Materials

Group 1: Benchmark First Sound Fluency Benchmark Composite Score Focus of Instruction: ● Blending phonemes ● Segmenting phonemes ● Decoding ● Encoding Instructional Materials: ●

Group2: Benchmark First Sound Fluency Below Benchmark Composite Score Focus of instruction: ● Sound and word discrimination ● Syllable blending ● Rhyming/Alliteration ● Blending onset and rime ● Matching initial sounds ● Letter-Sound correspondence, including dictation ● Phoneme isolation Instructional Materials: ● 95 Phonics Core Program Sound/Spelling Cards ● Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On-Level lessons ● Wonders Decodable Readers ● Word and Phrase practice for Sight Word Fluency ● KPALS materials ● Initial sound picture sorts ● Elkonin boxes with discs or pushing up sounds with fngers ● Alpha Arc, letter tiles, magnetic letters ● Tactile supplies for tracing letters)

Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On level or Beyond Level Readers and Lessons ● Wonders Classroom Lesson Library ● Wonders Research and Inquiry Lessons ● Wonders Extend and Connect Lessons ● Wonders Extended Writing Lessons ● 95 Phonics Core Program Decodable ● KPALS materials ● Elkonin boxes with discs or pushing up sounds with fngers ● White boards, erasers, letter tiles, magnetic letters ● Reading Software ● Wonders Digital Activities

Group3: Below Benchmark First Sound Fluency Benchmark Composite Score

Group4: Below Benchmark First Sound Fluency Below Benchmark Composite Score Focus of Instruction: ● Letter identifcation ● Sound and word discrimination ● Syllable blending ● Rhyming/Alliteration ● Blending onset and rime ● Matching initial sounds ● Letter-Sound correspondence ● Phoneme isolation

Focus of Instruction: ●

Letter identifcation

Letter-Sound correspondence

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Blending phonemes

Instructional Materials: ●

Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group On-Level lessons ● Wonders Decodable Readers ● 95 Phonics Core Program Sound/Spelling Cards ● KPALS materials ● Elkonin boxes with discs or pushing up sounds with fngers ● Alpha Arc, letter tiles, magnetic letters ● Tactile supplies for tracing letters

Instructional Materials: ●

Wonders Differentiated Instruction Small Group Approaching Level Lessons ● Wonders Decodable Readers ● 95 Phonics Core Program Sound/Spelling Cards ● KPALS materials ● ERI Kit