Kindergarten Science of Reading Phonics Lessons & Slides - Decoding & Encoding

Are you looking for Science of Reading phonics lessons to help your kindergarten students learn their letters and sounds? Starting Strong is a set of lessons and slides that help students learn letters, sounds, blending, decoding & encoding. This resource can be used for your whole-group phonics instruction and small-group lessons. This resource includes everything you need to START STRONG with Science of Reading best practices.

Science of Reading Starting Strong Curriculum contains components that are aligned to a SOR phonics-based, comprehensive scope & sequence. This SOR-based curriculum includes 54 explicit, science of reading aligned lessons that are done for you! The daily lessons cover phonemic awareness, a speech-to-print approach to introduce letters and their sounds, picture sorts, letter writing: explicit instruction on the path of motion using the included digital teaching slides that show the movement as kids follow along, blending and decoding routines that follow a systematic, explicit scope and sequence, orthographic word mapping, irregular high-frequency words instruction using the heart word method, dictation, student printables, and CONNECTED TEXT!

Science of Reading Starting Strong Curriculum includes daily Spiral review to help every student become a strong reader and writer. Each lesson builds upon previous learning. In these lessons, students will work on phonological awareness, letter-sound relationships, word awareness, decoding, and encoding. Blending phonemes practice is built into each lesson.

These 54 lessons will teach the 26 initial sounds and the alternate spelling of s (s spells /z/) with practice through CVC word reading, writing, blending, and segmenting.

What's Included:

• Systematic Scope & Sequence
• 54 easy-to-follow Lesson Plans in an editable format
• Daily Teaching Slides
• Daily Blending Slides with review of previously taught skills
• High Frequency Teaching Slides following the heart word method
• Slides with GIF format for letter formation so students can follow along with the slides and form letters correctly
• Printable charts that show the proper letter formation & mouth formation when making the sound
• Student Printables
• Connected Text - These student books are perfect for continual practice or homework
• Digital and Printable Sound Sorts

EVERYTHING you need to Start the year off Strong!

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Looking for more? Check out the next set in this series here: Growing Readers