LITERASEE LESSON PLANS ARE:
- ORTON-GILLINGHAM BASED: LiteraSee uses the science of reading and an Orton-Gillingham-based multisensory approach to teaching a structured yet fun curriculum.
- STRUCTURED AND EXPLICIT: LiteraSee teaches phonics, spelling rules, vowel teams, r-controlled vowels, syllable types and division, basic grammar, prefixes/roots/suffixes, and Anglo-Saxon, French, Latin, and Greek word origins.
- LEVELED: Lesson plans are sequential and cumulative; each carefully chosen word contains concepts previously taught. The levels begin with simple, common words and progress towards more complex and rare spellings in level five.
- USER-FRIENDLY: We condense the reading and dictation part of the lesson into one page, making teaching uncomplicated and enjoyable! During the lesson, we use many visual aids, games, and manipulatives, such as:
- Concept cards - insight during the entire lesson.
- Phoneme blocks for phonemic awareness activities or sounding out before spelling
- Phonogram blending card deck
- Lowercase lettered blocks make for a quick review and syllable division practice.
- Dry erase markers or colorful pencils for I do, we do, you do learning
- Tactile surfaces for corrections: colorful rice tray, needlepoint circles, gel bags, etc.
- Practice games: Which Is It? Spelling Choice Game and The Frog Pond Blending Game.
- Vowel Team Storyboards for spelling strategies.
- English language characterization posters close at hand for teaching as needed.
- Many other visual aides: Belly/Diaper, Vowel Teams chart by spelling, not sound.
- DOWNLOADS: The lesson plans are only available as a PDF download to make them more affordable and efficient. Make your lesson plans reusable using page protectors and storing them in leveled binders. The student can then read the words and divide syllables with a fine-point dry-erase marker without wasting paper, the printer's ink, or precious time. You'll have documentation of that day's work with the dictation part of the lesson. Once your order is processed, we email the files ASAP.
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Included with Level One: templates, graphic posters, checkli
STREAMLINED LESSONS
STREAMLINED LESSONS
STREAMLINED LESSONS
WORKSHEETS
STREAMLINED LESSONS
STREAMLINED LESSONS
OPTIONAL INSIGHTS
STREAMLINED LESSONS
SPELLING STRATEGIES
SPELLING STRATEGIES
PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, & ROOTS
SPELLING STRATEGIES
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ORIGINS
PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, & ROOTS
PREFIXES, SUFFIXES, & ROOTS
Included Teaching Resources:
CLASSROOM RESOURCES
- ORGANIZERS: Check-off lists keep you organized with sounds learned or lessons completed. A writing template helps your students organize the dictation part of the lesson - What Says...?, Writing Words, and Writing Sentences.
- DAILY/WEEKLY LESSON PLANNING TEMPLATES: These teaching aids are invaluable in their simplicity and efficiency. The five-day planner is a quick and easy way to track lessons learned and the concepts needing a review. The more detailed daily planner helps you organize each activity for the day's lesson.
- CLASSROOM VISUAL AIDS: Images, such as b/d reversals, vowel teams, ways to protect short (baby sounds), and the Cover, Copy, and Close desktop prompt, are examples of helpful reminders for your students. The Mistakes Are Proof That YOU Are Trying poster is inspirational for everyone!
TEACHING INSTRUCTIONS
- A video tutorial and step-by-step illustrated instructions explicitly explain each section of a 60-minute (or two 30-minute) Orton-Gillingham-based lessons and include helpful insights and teaching tips. Your student will appreciate a familiar but flexible routine that honors and follows the child's learning pace.
- Video tutorials for phonemic awareness and phonics show examples of each type of activity necessary to teach or strengthen these fundamental reading skills.
- The concept explanation is located at the top of each lesson making teaching more explicit and efficient.
- Support is just an email or a call away. I am confident that my expertise and nearly ten years of experience can help you navigate a structured literacy lesson or give you practical advice for a child or student with special needs who struggles to read.
PHONICS, PHONEMIC AWARENESS, & FLUENCY
- PHONEMIC AWARENESS: As early as four or five years old, children can learn that sentences are made of words and words are made up of letters representing sounds. With Phonemic Awareness Activities, your students will learn to identify and manipulate individual sounds in words. This ability builds the foundation for struggling readers of all ages.
- PHONICS: THE LETTER to SOUND AWARENESS begins before Level One. LiteraSee gives you the tools to start teaching letters in an evidence-based sequence. We blend letter sounds into words or nonwords to help students learn how to sound out unfamiliar words.
- FLUENCY: Reading letters, words, or sentences with automaticity is the goal for fluency. Good fluency directly affects comprehension, so it is an important skill to practice. LiteraSee includes many activities to help students with common letter confusion and word retrieval through repeated, timed/untimed common words or short phrases.
WRITING SENTENCES TO ESSAYS
Starting an essay is sometimes more challenging than writing it.
LiteraSee Concepts teaches :
- The components of a sentence.
- How to add colorful details to a sentence.
- The correct use of punctuation in complex sentences.
- The questions to ask when researching various topics.
- How to organize ideas for a rough draft.
- The basic structure of an essay.
- The elements of an introduction, supporting paragraphs, and the final paragraph.
- Explicit wording to start an interesting essay.
DECODABLE READERS A-Z
In addition to reading to a child from birth, beginning readers and children with dyslexia should start identifying letter sounds in words (phonemic awareness) and learning the sound-to-letter connection (phonics) as early as pre-kindergarten. Next, students learn to blend written letter sounds (phonograms) into words and finally read decodable (able to sound out) sentences with fluency and comprehension.
Exposure to decodable text creates a critical link between a student's phonics knowledge and reading.
- LiteraSee follows an evidence-based letter-learning sequence.
- LiteraSee's decodable mini-stories begin with the first letters learned so the child can connect phonics to reading as early as possible.
- Any unusual sound (is), sight word (the), or unknown letter is underlined, so students are not responsible for sounding out those words.
- In a perfect world, early text would be 100% decodable; however, adding verbs that may contain unknown letters may be necessary.
- The key at the bottom of the page identifies learned letters and underlines the new letter(s) and sight words.
- The stories have an image for background knowledge without giving away the story's details.