ELA+Skills

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 * Skills Block ** is a 30 minute period that is devoted to teaching phonics (10-15 minutes daily), phonemic awareness, phonics and spelling, high frequency words, language and vocabulary.
 * Description of a [|November Skills Block] that was video conferenced.
 * January 2010 blogs about Skills Block, [|describing the lesson that was used for vertical articulation] and .[|one with the video].
 * A blog describing [|Skills Block in January.]

Phonics
 * Letter Recognition pages to support students in-class and at-home
 * Phonemic Awareness**
 * 80 games to support Phonemic Awareness: [|Phonemic Awareness Curriculum Resource]
 * Handwriting **
 * [[file:Writing-Write uppercase letters.docx|Writing uppercase letters ]]
 * [[file:Writing-lowercase alphabet.docx|Writing lowercase letters]]

__**High Frequency Words**__
 * **__[|High Frequency Word Video]__**
 * **__Word Lists -__**adapted from Teachers College Reading and Writing Project (Lucy Calkins)
 * [[file:HF-Sight word assessment list.docx|HF Assessment]]
 * [[file:HF-1st nine weeks sight words.docx|HF-1st nine weeks]]
 * [[file:HF-2nd nine weeks sight words.docx|HF-2nd nine weeks]]
 * [[file:HF-3rd nine weeks sight words.docx|HF-3rd nine weeks]]
 * [[file:HF-4th nine weeks sight words.docx|HF-4th nine weeks]]
 * **Name Word Wall -** This is a Name Word Wall put into a pocket chart so students can pull the name and take it to use in writing.[[image:kindergartencce/10.jpg width="157" height="132" caption="10.jpg"]]
 * **Tee-shirt words** - One of our favorite ways to teach high-frequency words is to put the 100 most frequent words on the back of our [|field trip tee-shirts.]
 * **[|A weeklong sequence] - for introducing a new sight word - 5 minutes, 5 days**
 * **[|Good-by words] is a specific technique for introducing high-frequency words and then moving them to the word wall.**
 * **[|Repeat books]** are 3-4 page books that use a repeating phrase such as I can... I see... I like... The books have the repeating line on each page and the child finished the sentence with a word and then a picture.
 * Do something different with the 5 introduced high frequency words each day of the week such as
 * Rainbow write the words using a different color crayon for each letter of each word
 * Write each word with individualized alphabetized box of magnetic letters
 * Boom flash cards: Put words on flash cards. Place the word Boom on several flash cards. When the kids see Boom!, they scream Boom!
 * Write the words on a whiteboard with dry erase markers