Phonics by The Book Expanded:
Providing time to review what has already been taught is so important for our readers, but especially our young ones or those struggling to read. With that in mind, I was originally only going to make 5 Lessons for Unit 1 of my Phonics by The Book series, but am currently working on a Lesson 6.
Lesson 6 will be a mixed review of Lessons 1-5. It will not have a new reader, but will utilize all 5 readers. It will also have some of the same games and activities already familiar to your child, if you’ve done Lessons 1-5. Lesson 6 should post on February 27 (this is all assuming that baby girl doesn’t come earlier than planned)!
Phonics by The Book: Organized
I also wanted to share how I’ve got all my stuff organized. You can totally do it another way that suits you; just thought I’d share…
Readers:
I have a 3-ring binder specifically for Phonics by The Book with plastic sleeves that holds all the stories. This way, ALuv can go back and review something from any story at any time. And since they’re in plastic sleeves, we can mark them up with dry erase markers when needed.
Word Sorts: When we are done with our word sort for the week, he glues down all the words to a piece of paper and they are included behind each of the corresponding readers in the 3-ring binder.
For example, the short a word sort is right behind the God Made It All Reader (see picture above). This gives him a make-shift dictionary of all the phonics patterns we’ve studied.
Word-Wac-Woe: The game boards are kept in plastic sleeves and put behind all the readers. My word cards are just kept in a ziploc baggie. Keeping these items prevents me from needing to reprint words already used in previous lessons.
Sight Words: The sight words are not only included in the ziploc bag to go with Word-Wac-Woe, but we also post them each week on our Word Wall.
Secret Sentence/Roll & Write a Sentence: I don’t keep these in the notebook, but rather display his work (and then throw it away after about a week). But, if you wanted, you could also store them in the notebook.
I also didn’t keep all the Little Words letters/directions (except on my computer), but you could totally do that and pull them out for review. Instead of giving your child the words, see if he can come up with his own little words!
On Monday, I’ll post Lesson 5: God Was With Joseph & short u patterns!
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