Teaching short a. System and pace in introducing correspondences. Scholastic also continues to teach single consonants, a kindergarten concept at the first-grade level, and teachers new correspondences at the very slow rate of one every two weeks, a pace insufficiently intensive to complete phonics instruction in a timely manner. Later in the series, the authors attempt to speed things up by lumping all the CVCe patterns into a single lesson, which doesn t provide time to learn each one. Thus, Scholastic's pace is uneven. Phoneme awareness review.
Students begin the lesson with a shared reading of a poem.
Components of phonics lesson. Blending is demonstrated simply by stretching the pronunciation while running a finger under the word, a procedure that leaves the blending strategy opaque. Students chorally read short a words, allowing struggling decoders to mask their confusion by chiming in slightly after the better readers. Students are invited to build words with letter cards without specific directions or scaffolding. The word and is taught by rote despite its decodability.