Reading Overview

• Elements of Reading
• Reading Progression
• Conventional Grade Level Focus
• Kindergarten
• First Grade
• Second Grade
• Third Grade
• Fourth Grade
• Fifth Grade
• Sixth grade
• Seventh grade
• Eighth Grade

Elements of Reading

Decoding Words

• Phonemes
• BlueTones
• Blending Phonemes to say a Word
• Decoding Multisyllable Words

Sentences

• Sentence Conventions and Punctuation
• Grammar (Nouns, Verbs Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns, Interjections
  
• Plural / singular
• Tense agreement
•  Phrases
  • Prepositional (Where, When, Who, How)
  • Idioms
• Clauses and Conjunctions
•  Types
  • Information
  • Questions / Answers
  • Commands
  • Dialogue
  • Reasoning
  • Facts and Opinions

Prosody

• Articulation
• Utterance (question, statement, command)
• Rhyme
• Alliteration
• Meter
• Emotional content
• Stress
• Intonation
• Pause
• Chunking
• Repetition

 

 

Reading Progression

Decoding

• Recognizing BlueTones
  • Latency time
  • Articulation
• Blending Sounds to form a Word
• Decoding Multisyllable Words
• Automatic Recognition (Auto)
  

Words

• Articulation
• Word Exposure
  • Total Words Read
  • Total Unique Words Read
• Automatic Recognition (Auto)
  • Latency time
    

Language

• Word meaning
• Relationships between Words
  • Word Context Categories
    • Context Low (L)
      • Animals, foods, clothing, furniture, vehicles, actions, locations, plants, colors, shapes, toys, Letter Names, Number names, Family names
    • Context Medium (M)
      • Feelings, descriptions, time, pronouns, activities, Specific Names, dialogue, directions
    • Context High (H)
      • Articles / determiners, logical, transitions, prepositions, relationships, abbreviations, contractsion
    • Domain Specific (D)
• Dictation and recall
• Prosody
  • Articulation, Utterance, Rhyme, Alliteration, Meter, Emotional content, Stress, Intonation, Pause, Chunking, Repetition
• Sentences
  • Information
  • Questions / Answers
  • Commands
  • Dialogue
  • Reasoning
    • Not, And, Or, Sequence, Categories and Groups, If then
  • Facts and Opinions
    • Preferences, Facts, Certainty levels, Constraints, Assumptions (series of facts), Arguments

Conventional Grade Level Focus

Kindergarten 

Reading foundations

1. Letter Identification
2. Lowercase and uppercase letters
3. Word recognition
4. Consonants and vowels
5. Beginning and ending sounds
6. Letter-sound associations
7. Consonant blends and digraphs
8. Short vowel sounds
9. Long vowel sounds
10. Sight words

Reading strategies

1. Text features
2. Reality vs fiction
3. Main idea
4. Inference and analysis
5. Setting and Character
6. Sequence
7. Point of view
8. Read-along literary texts
9. Read-alone literary texts
10. Read-along informational texts
11. Read-alone informational texts

Vocabulary

1. Color and number words
2. Adjectives and verbs
3. Location words
4. Question words
5. Synonyms and antonyms
6. Categories
7. Multiple meaning words

Grammar and mechanics

1. Sentences
2. Capitalization
3. Nouns
4. Verbs

First Grade

Reading foundations

1. Consonants and vowels
2. Syllables (2-syllable)
3. Rhyming
4. Phoneme blending, segmenting and substitution
5. Consonant sounds and letters
6. Consonant blends and digraphs
7. Short vowels
8. Long vowels
9. Silent e
10. Vowel teams
11. Sight words

Reading strategies

1. Reality vs fiction
2. Main idea
3. Sequence
4. Point of view
5. Inference and analysis
6. Setting and character
7. Text features
8. Read-along literary texts
9. Read-alone literary texts
10. Read-along informational texts
11. Read-alone informational texts

Vocabulary

1. Nouns and adjectives
2. Categories
3. Synonyms and antonyms
4. Multiple meaning words
5. Shades of meaning
6. Prefixes and suffixes
7. Context clues
8. Reference skills (ABC order)

Grammar and mechanics

1. Sentences
2. Nouns
3. Pronouns
4. Verbs
5. Subject verb agreement
6. Verb tense
7. Articles
8. Adjectives
9. Prepositions
10. Linking words
11. Contractions
12. Capitalization

Second grade

Reading foundations

1. Syllables (2-syllable)
2. Rhyming
3. Consonant blends and digraphs
4. Short vowels
5. Long vowels (including silent e)
6. Vowel teams
7. Soft g and c
8. The letter group "le"
9. Sight words

Reading strategies

1. Sequence
2. Theme
3. Topic and purpose
4. Cause and effect
5. Inference and analysis
6. Setting and character
7. Compare and contrast
8. Text features
9. Read-along literary texts
10. Read-alone literary texts
11. Read-along informational texts
12. Read-alone informational texts

Writing strategies

Kindergarten

Reading foundations

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

First Grade

Reading foundations

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Second Grade

Reading foundations

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Third Grade

Reading foundations

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Fourth Grade

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Fifth Grade

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Sixth grade

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Seventh grade

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics

Eighth Grade

Reading strategies

Writing strategies

Vocabulary

Grammar and mechanics