Word Knowledge C

Rising Readers

Your student is learning the foundations of how to read. You will help them understand the combinations of sounds and letters in written language. The curriculum linked below contains a sequence of reading skills for your student to learn. Start with the first unit “Suffixes”, and continue through the units in order. If a reading skill in the unit is too easy, that’s ok! You can move at a faster pace until you find a reading skill that needs some extra practice. 

Remember to take breaks between worksheets or other activities, and have fun!

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This unit will help your student learn about affixes,

We can add letters to the end of words to make them plural or make them present or past tense. The letters we add are called “suffixes”.

Plural endings: -s, -es

Present tense ending: -ing

Past tense ending: -ed

This reading skill may be new to your student, or they may already be familiar with it. To practice this reading skill, select a type of activity that your student enjoys (they can help choose!). We do not expect every student to complete everything included here, and these materials can be completed in any order. Keep in mind that learning takes time and repetition.

This unit will help your student learn about predictable vowel teams, when we combine two or three vowels and they make the same sound in all different words. These vowels are called teams because they join together to make one sound.

There are many predictable vowel teams in common words, such as paint and rain, glue and blue, and light and night.

AU/AW

AI/AY

EW/UE

OA

OI/OY

IGH/Y

This reading skill may be new to your student, or they may already be familiar with it. To practice this reading skill, select a type of activity that your student enjoys (they can help choose!). We do not expect every student to complete everything included here, and these materials can be completed in any order. Keep in mind that learning takes time and repetition.

This unit will help your student learn about unpredictable vowel teams, when we combine two vowels and they make different sounds depending on the word they are in. 

Unpredictable vowel teams might look simple, but the sounds these letter combinations make change depending on the word they are in! For example, teach and bread have different vowel sounds but are both spelled with “ea”. School and book also have different vowel sounds, but are both spelled with “oo”. Dive into this unit to learn more!

EA/EE

OO

OU/OW

This reading skill may be new to your student, or they may already be familiar with it. To practice this reading skill, select a type of activity that your student enjoys (they can help choose!). We do not expect every student to complete everything included here, and these materials can be completed in any order. Keep in mind that learning takes time and repetition.

This unit will help your student learn about the sounds in words where the vowel is combined with “r”.

When the letter “r” comes after vowels, it changes the sound of the whole word! For example, the vowel in cat sounds different from the vowel in car, and the vowels in bear sound different from the vowels in bean. When the “r” changes the sounds of other vowels, they are called “r-controlled”.

/a/: Spelled ar

/u/: Spelled er, ir, ur

/a/: Spelled air, are, ear

/o/: Spelled or, oar, our

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Stories to practice comprehension at your student’s reading level.

Tips for reading with your student: ok for you to read out loud. Have fun! Make up voices. Ask questions/encourage conversation, don’t just read the text.

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Mini BookDownload
Cut Out CardsDownload
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Try the following tips and activities for further enrichment:

  • Before reading a story, look at pictures or videos about the content or location of the story to make it come to life.
  • Ask students to write a review, or a single sentence, describing what they just read.
  • When you find a book that your student loves, look for other books with the same author or genre to try reading that, too.
  • Guide to Questions Before, During, and After Reading
  • Ask your student to practice reading out loud.
  • Read out loud to your student. For younger students, make it interactive and silly!
  • Echo reading: ask your student to imitate you as you read. Choose a paragraph, story, or even script with lots of different types of expression, such as whispering, speaking loudly, dramatic pauses, or silly voices.
  • Act out a scene together with as much drama as you can, while reading from a script.



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