Science of Reading Lesson Format

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Start making small changes to the way you teach by adding in some word study to your lessons.   Pick a simple scope and sequence of phonics skills to guide you.  Start with the easiest skill and start practicing them with your students.  Once they get good at that skill introduce a new skill.

It doesn't have to be a HUGE overhaul of everything you have done.   

Start small.

Here is a lesson plan format that I use to help keep me focused and on track.  This is a REVIEW lesson.   It is meant to provide spiral review and repeated practice of phonics skills.  In a classroom it could look like MONDAY:  Teach new phonics skill.  TUESDAY-FRIDAY warm up with the new phonics skill taught then do this lesson to review all skills.  

 SAMPLE SCIENCE OF READING BASED LESSON FORMAT

1.   Warm up with alphabet/phonemic awareness

Practice missing letter decks, alphabet order, and/or phonemic awareness.  I like to warm up with a phonemic awareness activity that matches my focus skill for the lesson.  For example if we are going to be working on CVC words.  I would warm up with orally blending and segmenting CVC words.  

2.  Read Sounds

You should keep a stack of cards of all the sounds you have already taught the students.  Flash these to the students flash card style.  They will be looking at a card with a letter or group of letters on them and saying the sound they make.   

3.  Blending Drill

This is the part of the lesson that often I see skipped.  However it is the MOST important for students to do.  Use the sound cards you just read and build words with them.  It is important for students to see mulitple combinations to review the sounds with connecting to text.  Use real and nonsense words to further solidify skills.

4.  Read Words/ RAN (Rapid Automatic Naming)

This can be a stack of word cards or a list of words that the student reads.  There should be words included with all of the phonics skills previously taught, or at least the last 8-10 skills if many skills have been taught already.

5.  Spell Sounds

Not only is it important to have students reading everyday, but it is important to have them writing.  Writing helps build connections in the brain and to make learning permanent.   In this part you will say "write the letter or letters that makes the sound _____"    Students will say the sound and then say the letters as they write them.  For example.

Teacher:  "Write the letters that make the sound /sh/

Students:  "/sh/"   "s.....h"  

Practice 8-10 sounds that have already been taught.

6.  Spell Words

Similar to above but with words.  Teacher says "write the word _____________"  Students write the word.  I like to have them say the letters out loud as they write them.   Again 8-10 words using previously taught spelling rules.

7.  Spell Sentences

Dictate 2-4 sentences to the students and have them write them.  Make sure that the sentences only have skills previously taught in them.

Last as always have students read.  This could be a passage or book.  They need to be practicing their skills in "real life" in order for them to stick!

I hope this helps someone!  If you have any questions, it's easiest for me if you DM me on facebook.

Thanks friends!
Amy

I have a ready made printable lesson plan format to fill out here in my store, but you can just slap this outline into your lessons plans and you are good to go.