Mel @ Kaniere - Professional Learning

Monday, May 1, 2023

We had Jenny come in and go through the code with us. She shared some resources with us and we shared what we do within the school as well.

Make sure you have small group instruction. You can do whole class but follow up in small group sessions.

Clusters instead of calling blends.

Stages

Stage 2 & 3

Free game you can use online.

Can use the first sound or even the last sound.

Stage 4

Make sure that kids know their vowels. You can download this from the Yolanda Sorrel's site.

Full Circle Game

Stage 5

Make sure you slow down with this stage spend time on learning this.

Wa rule info

Ideas for teaching sounds.

Ideas to reinforce split digraphs. Make bake and change it to make.

Good rule to teach the children. Children really need to understand the vowels. Rules are up on the youtube site.

This is an example of a full circle game. https://www.ictgames.com/

Stage 6

Nice idea to use poems to look for prefixs and suffixes.

Introduce root words to students as this can help them learn word meanings.

This was an awesome toolkit and so helpful for me to use in my class. Love the sound bits and how we can go back and learn them.

Decode for comprehension. Decoding is decoding, reading is comprehension.

Sound research that acknowledges this is a sound system. Great to hear that systems that I use are still valued.

Helpful labels to support strategies in reading.

Continuous sounds you it isn't a short sound like ffff. d is in your voice box and b is in your mouth.

Year 3 if still struggling go back and go over their vowels. This is a handy card for them to use. Can be downloaded from yolandasoryl.com