Lesson Plan : Phonics Blitz
Teacher Name: | Patricia Lott |
Grade: | Grade 7-8 |
Subject: | Other |
Topic: | Phonics Blitz lesson 1-20 (blue and purple book) |
Content: | Lesson Structure Phonics Blitz lessons have four parts: oral reading, phonemic awareness, phonics, and reading words and sentences. The lessons include all of the National Reading Panel�s five essential components of reading instruction. The primary focus is on improving phonics skills, translating into improved accuracy and fluency. The Phonics Blitz scope and sequence is systematic and cumulative. Oral Reading � Each lesson begins with a timed oral reading and reviewing vocabulary from the passage. Phonics Blitz materials include a set of 40 mostly expository passages. In the first 20 lessons, students focus on reading accurately andfluently. In lessons 21-40, students preview the passage and answer questions to develop their comprehension skills before, during, and after reading the passage. Students chart their own accuracy rates (percentage of words read correctly) and fluency scores (words correct per minute). By hearing the students read aloud and reviewing their charts, the teacher can monitor how well instruction is transferring to text that students would read in their academic courses. Sample Oral Reading PassageSample Accuracy and WCPM student chart Phonemic Awareness � Phonemic awareness is taught and developed in the first 20 lessons. In this part of the lessons, students learn to automatically identify sounds in spoken words. The focus is on vowels because they are the primarypoint of confusion for most students who qualify for Phonics Blitz. The development of strong phonemic awareness is the basis for a student�s clear understanding of concepts taught in the Phonics part of the lessons. The lessons also teach students to easily count, segment and blend syllables, because a surprising number of older readers do not have do not have syllabication skills. Sample Phonemic Awareness pages Phonics - Each lesson introduces and teaches a new phonics concept. The concepts are introduced explicitly in a cumulative, systematic sequence. Manipulatives are used extensively. Students use magnetic letter tiles to learn letter-soundcorrespondences, with an emphasis on common vowel spelling patterns. Letter tiles also help students understand complex spelling conventions. For example, when learning about adding suffixes to base words, students manipulate letter tiles to learn when to double the final consonant, drop the final e, or make no change. Students use SyllaBoards to easily read unfamiliar multi-syllable words. Sample Phonics PagesLearn about manipulatives used in the lessonsLearn about SyllaBoards Reading Words and Sentences � Students read decodable words in isolation and decodable sentences. Words selected for word lists and sentences are intentionally challenging so that they prepare students for reading academictext. Oral reading builds students� confidence that they can read well. While reading aloud, students receive immediate and positive error correction to help them develop the habit of reading words accurately. By lesson 11, students are reading and spelling words such as quintuplet, ecstatic, and uninhabited, and the words become more challenging as the lessons progress. As individual students read aloud, teachers monitor which students are mastering the concepts and developing good reading habits and which students need more help and practice. |
Goals: | Phonics Blitz is 40 lessons that teach phonics concepts in a fast-paced, multi-sensory, systematic, and explicit manner. The lessons improve reading skills of students in grades 4 to 12. They are not appropriate for younger students because of the advanced vocabulary. |
Objectives: | Phonics Blitz helps students who exhibit one or more of the following weaknesses: misread unfamiliar words and words that look alike struggle with reading multi-syllable words skip or add words read more slowly than grade level expectations have poor spelling. Really Great Reading's Grouping Matrix can tell you whether Phonics Blitz is appropriate for a student reading below grade level.. Each Phonics Blitz lesson lasts approximately one hour. Lesson times vary based on the time it takes students to master the concepts taught and the size of the group. Completing all 40 lessons usually takes 8 to 10 weeks. The recommended group size is 8 to 12 students, depending on the level of the students� decoding deficits. Lessons can be broken up for classes shorter than one hour, but it will take longer than 8 to 10 weeks to complete all 40 Lessons. Interventionists, reading specialists, teachers in any area, tutors, and other educators can attend a workshop to learn to teach Phonics Blitz lessons. |
Materials: | Student Materials Print materials for each student. (Students write in these books.) 1. Blue Blitz Book � Student book with charts, word sorts, detective work, word lists, and sentences for Lessons 1 - 20. 2.. Red Blitz Book � Student book with charts, word sorts, detective work, word lists, and sentences for Lessons 21 � 40. 3. Purple Passages Book � Student book with oral reading passages and calculation chart for accuracy percentage and words correct per minute for Lessons 1 � 40. Manipulative materials for students. 1. Student Phonics Kit � Magnetic letter tiles and colored tiles, large whiteboard for holding tiles, small whiteboard for working, calculator, SyllaBoards, dry erase marker and eraser, colored pencils Teacher Materials All teacher materials are available as a package in as Teacher Phonics Blitz Materials Print materials for each teacher 1. Lesson Plan Books - Two spiral bound books have detailed lesson plans with all the information teachers need. All lessons begin with a section called What You Need to Know that gives all the background information on phonemic awareness and phonics the teacher needs to successfully teach the lesson. Lesson plans introduce concepts explicitly and systematically using �I Do, We Do, You Do� instructions that incorporate manipulative materials. Lesson plans books include four colorful vowel phoneme posters for classroom display. They also contain black line masters for overhead transparencies. 2. One set of student print materials: Blue Blitz Book, Red Blitz Book, Purple Passages Book 3. 4 Vowel Posters - Long Vowels, Short Vowels, Other Vowels and R-Controlled Vowels Manipulative materials for teachers: Large Letter Tiles � 340 large magnetic tiles with letters and graphemes and 9 colored tiles arranged in two carrying cases Fluency Timer 5 magnetic dry erase SyllaBoards 2 dry erase markers and erasers. |
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