R.E.A.D Curriculum Notebook: 785 pages

• 4 Days a Week over 36 Weeks
• One Word Family per week
• 2-3 Sight Words per week
• Beginning Blends cycle every fifth week
• 60 page Interactive Grammar Notebook
• Weekly Writing Prompts
• Science Sequencing & Drawing Activities
• Daily Warm Up Activities

Warm Up Worksheets:

Each morning, children will complete two daily warm up activity pages to practice key life skills.  While you can print these pages for each day, we recommend only printing them once and storing them in a plastic sleeve at the front of your binder.  Children can then use dry erase markers to complete their morning work each day.  These are basically no-prep activities, just write a number on the board, and your child can get started while you prepare yourself for the day.

Interactive Notebook:

On Tuesdays and Thursdays children begin to build and add to their interactive notebook. You will need to decide which method will work the best for your setup: Composition notebooks are fantastic resources for interactive notebooks. They are inexpensive, have a sturdy cardboard front and back, and include lined paper for children to write in additional answers.  Additionally, having a separate notebook provides children with a Language Arts reference tool they can continue to build on during the next few years of schooling.  Whichever method you choose, be sure that and keep this interactive notebook close by, as children will be adding to it twice a week.  Topics covered in the notebook will help meet Kindergarten language art requirements and are outlined in the weekly schedule above.

Monday

I Can Rhyme Chart

Each week you’ll be introducing children to a new word family or blend.  Start off the week with this colorful chart.  Talk with children about the different words they can make with this special word family and try to think of other rhyming words together.

Letter Sound Chart

Sound out each letter individually, and then blend them together as you move your finger across the letters and arrows. Encourage children to keep the sound going until they reach the end of the arrow, changing and blending sounds when their finger crosses over new letters.

Handwriting Worksheet

This is a simple worksheet for children to practice writing their new words. Each handwriting page features a place for children to write their name and the written word family at the top.  Pictures and their corresponding words are shown, and children have the opportunity to trace and then write the words on their own, checking off each row they complete.

Blank Word Family Template

These blank word family templates are very versatile and can be filled in a variety of ways: Playdough mats, Stickers, Painting, Dot Markers, Fingerprints, Cut & Paste Collage (a words, m words)…..etc.

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Sight Word Cards

Each week children will learn two or three new sight words.  Introduce children to these new words and use the sight word cards to begin building small sentences. Children can cut and store cards for later use.

Sound it Out

Children build on the previous days activities by starting off the day reviewing each letter sound and blending them into words.  Children match each word to the corresponding picture.  The second part of this worksheet provides children the opportunity to deconstruct words into beginning, middle and ending sounds, circling each letter as they go. Encourage children to say these sounds out loud as they work.

Interactive Notebook Activity

On Tuesdays and Thursdays children begin to build and add to their interactive folder.  Children cut out and assemble the minibooklet and add it to their folder.  Each minibooklet contains new information covering key Language Arts standards for Kindergarten.

Write & Find

This is a simple spelling activity for children to work on listening for individual letter sounds.  After writing each word, children find the words in the wordsearch below.

Spinner Winner

This worksheet doubles as handwriting practice and a fun game!  Using a paperclip spinner, children write each word they land on, first one to the top wins!

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Daily Sight Word Work

Review sight words with yesterday’s word cards. Children then practice writing their sight words with these simple activity pages.  Each page features dot painting and a dot to dot for children to solve.  Smaller words leave room for writing practice and extra activities.

Review & Blends Week

Every five weeks has been scheduled as an optional review week for word families and grammar concepts learned during the previous four weeks. (If you find your child is needing review, check out our optional review and assessment pack.)  For children ready to progress we’ve scheduled a week of beginning blends for children to learn and pair up with their word families.  The blends week schedule (shown above) is very similar to a normal week with a few substitutions:

Blend Sound Chart

Each week you’ll be introducing children to a new word family or blend.  Start off the week with this colorful chart.  Talk with children about the different words they can make with this special word family and try to think of other rhyming words together.

Blending to Read

This is a simple activity page for children to practice close listening to the beginning sound and identify the correct blend. Children should use the dots and arrows as finger placement guides as they blend each word together.

Find & Color

Children find the words that have the beginning blend sound and color them.  Children then write two of the words they found.

Draw & Write (Mon & Wed)

Children follow the six step drawing guidelines to create their own fun characters.  Drawing builds small motor skills, increased confidence and provides writing opportunities for children to create stories for their creations.

Science Sequencing (Mon & Wed)

Children build 3-step sequences and learn to write or draw short responses in a First, Next, Last format.  Science topics include life cycles, plant growth, hibernation, states of matter and more.

Nonsense Words (Tues & Thurs)

Children build words by choosing a beginning letter and pairing it with their word family.  After saying the sounds out loud, children much decided it they created a real word or a nonsense word, and write it on the corresponding list.

Sort it Out   (Tues & Thurs)

Sorting is a great way to assess comprehension.  Children use the included game cards and mats to sort through their newly learned beginning blends. Encourage children to cut out each picture and sort them into the correct categories.  Remind them to check each word before they paste it down.

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Bingo Games  (Fri)

Finish out your blends week with a fun game of phonics bingo!  Each bingo board features images of the previously learned word families.  Children can take turns choosing and then reading the calling cards to find out which picture was called.