Language Arts for Grade K 2012
3-Week IG Sample:
Language Arts Grade K IG 3-week sample
2012 LA Grade K IG Errors
- Week 7 - Vowel activity sheet 8 provides the word cat for the student to match to the picture of the cat. The student has not yet learned the Cc sound, so this is in error. Instruct customers to replace "cat" with "mat" and pencil in a picture of a mat for their student. Update will be made at next print run. (10.11.12)
- Week 7 Notebook Activities - Copywork Activity Sheets for this week were unintentionally left out of the IG. Missing sheets available on the Curriculum Updates page. (6.12.12)
- Appendix - Basic Phonics and Skills Appendix was unintentionally left out of the IG. Pages available to download and print on the Curriculum Updates page. (6.12.12)
KTG1 Components
- Notebook Activity Sheets (for both handwriting programs)
- Vowel Activity Sheets
- The Cat Book
- Picture sheets (Appendix 4)
- Word Cards (Appendix 5)
- Sound Cards
Order of letters taught (10.20.09)
We start with the easiest letters to hear (for example, "f" is the first letter because its sound is unique and distinctive.) We add letters as they are "hearable (for example, b, s, t, and m)." We add some letters late in the year since they aren’t used often (q, x, z). And, we follow Dr. Beechick's idea of having kids read as soon as possible (since that is why we learn the letters in the first place--not for the head knowledge but to read). Therefore, we add the letter "A" in week six so that kids can start putting letters together into words. When we add a vowel to the progression of letter sounds, we pause in our push forward in learning letters since vowels enable us to read and can be somewhat tougher to hear. So, instead of a letter a week, we'll spend from 2 to 4 weeks on a vowel sound.
Go A to Z cards description
Cards the size of playing cards, have the upper and lower case on the same card on opposite corners of each card. There are 2 cards of each letter in the pack. Used in LA K for Go Fish type games as well as other activities.
HWT Slate description
Slate is 5 x 7" (2007 version is bigger than the old one)