Teacher's Guide - Letterland

© Letterland International Limited. All rights reserved.Letterland Step-by-StepGrade 1Five Day Unit PlanOverview of Day 1Whole Group• Review phonic concepts, p 7• Introduce new concepts on the pocket chart,p 7• Beyond ABC book (for some lessons)• Live Reading, p 9• Word Detectives, p 9• Read Word Cards, p 9Small Group• Teacher builds words for reading, p 10• New Tricky Words and Story Words, p 10• Read the Student List, p 12Independent/Partner• Write New Words and sentences, highlight,and read to partner, p 13Overview of Day 2Whole Group• Quick Dash, p 13• Letterland Songs/Beyond ABC book(for some lessons), p 14• Live Spelling, p 14Small Group• Children build words, p 15• Tricky Words, p 16• Read Review Sentences, p 16Independent/Partner• Read Review Sentences, p 17• Write words for Game of the Week, p 17Overview of Day 3Whole Group• Guess Who?, p 18• Word Sort, p 19• Read Decodable Story to the children, p 20Small Group• Dictate Tricky Words, p 20• Dictate 1 or 2 Review Sentences, p 21• Children read the Decodable Story, p 21Independent/Partner• Written Word Sort, p 21• Read Word Sort with partner, p 21Overview of Day 4Whole Group• Quick Dash, p13• Red Robot’s Reading Race, p 22• Play the Game of the Week, p 22Small Group• Share homework sentences, p 23• Reread the Decodable Story, p 23• Spelling Sort (Teacher dictates words), p 23• New sentence dictation, p 24Independent/Partner• Written practice test with a partner, p 24• Fluency practice with a partner, 24Overview of Day 5Whole Group• Spelling test, p 24• Fluency Check p 26Small Group• Choose from optional activities, p 26Independent/Partner• Illustrate & picture-code words, p 27• Read Decodable Story to 2 partners, p 283