Apply use of syllabication to read and spell new unfamiliar words. Perform more complex phoneme blending. Manipulate sounds in words. Hear and segment initial final and medial phonemes in words. Given print materials and verbal direction, students recognize and produce rhyming words .
Teacher continues to utilize a variety of rhyming books.
Given words orally, students sort rhyming words into families. Teacher provides examples of words which fit the syllable types for students to practice reading and spelling. Activities to improve tracking of sounds in words including use of manipulatives to represent number of sounds and what those sounds are randomly in words they hear. Student repeats the word back blended. Gradually increase the number of sounds in the words presented.