Teacher observation, maintain portfolios of student work. Understand how words, phrases, sentences and paragraphs work. Understand sentence and story structure. Teacher guides students to build phrases, sentences and paragraphs both orally and in writing. Students edit simple sentences with correct punctuation.
Teacher guides students to build grammatically correct sentences.
Students create word lists given word families and patterns. Assessment of student's automatic reading of primary word families and patterns. Students maintain dictionary of word family words for assessment purposes. Read 100 to 200 little books individually and in small groups. Read for pleasure.