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Phonemic Awareness:

Classroom Activities:

1. Phoneme Sound Sort: Provide students with a set of pictures representing words with different initial phonemes. Have them sort the pictures into groups based on the beginning sound. Differentiate by using more challenging word pairs for advanced students.

2. Phoneme Isolation: Play a game where students listen to a word and identify the middle or ending phoneme (e.g., What is the ending sound in "cat"?). Provide visual cues for students with exceptionalities.

3. At-Home Activity:

Phoneme Hunt: Encourage families to go on a phoneme hunt at home, identifying objects or words with specific sounds. This can be a fun, hands-on way to reinforce phonemic awareness skills.

4. Website for Families:

Starfall offers interactive phonemic awareness games and activities suitable for young learners with or without exceptionalities. It provides visual and auditory support to cater to diverse needs

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Classroom Activities:

1. Word Building: Provide letter tiles and ask students to build words that follow specific phonics rules. For students with exceptionalities, use larger, tactile letters for easy manipulation.

2. Word Sort: Ask students to sort words into categories based on specific phonics patterns (e.g., long vowel sounds, consonant blends). Differentiate by the complexity of patterns.

At-Home Activity:

Alphabet Scavenger Hunt: Families can organize a scavenger hunt at home, finding items that start with different letters. This activity reinforces letter-sound associations.

Website for Families:

PBS Kids Reading Games offers a variety of phonics games and activities for young readers. It's user-friendly and caters to diverse learning styles.

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Classroom Activities:

1. Word Maps: Have students create word maps with the word, definition, a sentence, and a visual representation. Differentiate by allowing students to choose words at their own reading level.

2. Context Clues: Teach students to use context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words in a text. Provide support for exceptional learners with simplified text.

At-Home Activity:

Word of the Day: Families can choose a new word each day and encourage their child to use it in sentences, helping to build vocabulary.

Website for Families:

Vocabulary.com offers interactive vocabulary quizzes and word games for young learners. It adapts to the learner's level and provides explanations for word meanings to support comprehension.

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Classroom Activities:

1. Read Alouds: Model fluent reading by reading a text aloud to the class, emphasizing expression and prosody. Encourage students to imitate.

2. Repeated Reading: Have students read a passage multiple times to improve fluency. Provide different passages for students at varying reading levels.

At-Home Activity:

Reader's Theater: Families can engage in reader's theater activities, where children take on different roles and practice reading with expression. This at-home activity can be adapted to the child's reading level.

Website for Families:

ReadWorks offers free fluency passages and comprehension questions for practice at home. It provides a variety of texts suitable for different age groups and reading levels.

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Classroom Activities:

1. Reciprocal Teaching: Implement reciprocal teaching, where students take on different roles (summarizer, questioner, clarifier, predictor) to discuss a text in groups.

2. Graphic Organizers: Use graphic organizers to help students visually organize information from a text. Offer simplified versions for students with exceptionalities.

At-Home Activity:

Discussion Time: Families can read a book together and have a discussion afterward, asking questions about the story and encouraging children to make predictions.

Website for Families:

Reading Rockets Comprehension Resources provides a range of resources to support comprehension at home, including tips for parents, booklists, and comprehension strategies for young readers with and without exceptionalities.

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Reading Rockets. https://www.readingrockets.org/

Five (5) components of reading :: Read naturally, Inc. (n.d.). Research-Based Reading Interventions :: Read Naturally, Inc. https://www.readnaturally.com/research/5-components-of-reading

Arizona Department of Education |. https://www.azed.gov/sites/default/files/2017/11/5%20pillars%20infographic%20Poster.pdf?id=5a1c969e3217e10144257f54

https://www.azed.gov/sites/default/files/2017/11/5%20pillars%20infographic%20Poster.pdf?id=5a1c969e3217e10144257f54