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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Suffixes -s,-es

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Student Lesson

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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

OI/OY

IGH/Y

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

OU/OW

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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Tips for reading with your student:

It is ok for you to read out loud to your student.
Make up silly or dramatic voices – or have fun with it in whatever way you choose.
Ask questions and encourage conversation as you read, there is no need to just stick to the text.

All of the stories below are appropriate for your student’s assessed level of comprehension. They range from -120 (Beginning Reader Lexile) to 100 Lexile and are ordered from easiest to most challenging text. This means that you may want to support your student more in reading some of these stories than others. Above all, have fun reading together!

Mini Book

Lesson Plan (review or prepare before your session)