Step 1 Vibes (1.3-1.6)
This is the specific tapping rule for a welded/glued sound (-am, -an, -ang, -onk...)
What is tapping the fingers together (Demonstrate two or three fingers welded together)?
***** This is the primary structural difference between Step 1 words and Step 2 words.
What is the introduction of blends (consonant blends)?
This is how you mark a consonant blend to distinguish it from a digraph. (Write examples to demonstrate.)
What is putting a separate underline under each consonant in the blend? (Digraphs get one single underline).
This is the definition of a Closed Syllable.
What is a syllable with one vowel, closed in by one or more consonants, making the vowel short?
Read aloud, scoop, and mark up the following sentences.... (1.6)
"Jed cashes the check from his dad."
Teacher discretion:
(1.6) "Jed cashes the check from his dad."
These three letters are considered "bonus letters" and are doubled at the end of a one-syllable, short-vowel word.
What are f, l, and s? (Bonus: z is sometimes included)
Deomonstrate how to tap the following words: "clip" and "ship".
What is 4 taps for "clip" (c-l-i-p) versus 3 taps for "ship" (sh-i-p)? (Digraphs get one tap, blends get separate taps).
Name these five specific closed syllable exceptions from Step 2.3.
What are -ild, -ind, -old, -olt, -ost?
Step 3.1 shifts away from single-syllable words to focus entirely on these. (Ex- "cabin", "backpack", "wisdom")
What are two-syllable words (or multisyllabic words)?
Read aloud, scoop, and mark up the following sentences.... (2.1)
"Were you asked to fix the ding on the cab?"
Teacher discretion:
"Were you asked to fix the ding on the cab?"
This punctuation mark is used during marking to show that a vowel is short.
What is a breve?
How many letters are in the blend found at the beginning of words like "scrap" or "string".
What is a three-letter consonant blend?
Spell the word "stump" and explain how to tap it. Also spell the word "scold" and explain how to tap it.
S-T-U-M-P. What is 5 total taps? S-C-OLD. (What is 3 total taps- two single taps and a three-finger welded tap?)
This is how you mark a word like "catnip" to prove it consists of closed syllables.
What is scooping the two syllables, putting a "c" underneath each scoop, and a breve (breve) over the vowels?
Read aloud, scoop, and mark up the following sentences.... (2.3)
"Does anyone want to dig for gold at the pond?"
Teacher discretion:
"Does anyone want to dig for gold at the pond?"
In Step 1.6, these specific suffixes are introduced, meaning "more than one."
What are the suffixes -s and -es?
Name the welded sounds in the following words: "wing", "songs", "hank", "chunk",
What is -ing, -ong, -ank, -unk?
This is the rule for when to use "c" versus "k" at the beginning of a word in Step 2.
What is: use k before i and e, and use c before a, o, u, and consonants?
In a multi-syllable word that ends with the sounds i, and c,k,ck, which spelling is correct?
What is -ic?
Read aloud, scoop, and mark up the following sentences.... (2.5)
"Cam will tempt everyone with hot dogs on the grill."
Teacher discretion:
"Cam will tempt everyone with hot dogs on the grill."
Give two examples of words from Step 1.4 that contain a bonus letter and a welded sound.
What is a word like ball, call, fall... or... mass, whiff, dill (Accept any valid example).
Mark up the following words.
"blast", "cramps", "swift", "swings", "branches"
Underline blends (8 sets), welds (2), welded-digraph blend (1), suffixes (2), and/or baseword (2).
Using the letter cards, word cards, latin base cards, and HFW cards (from step 2.5), demonstrate the sounds for each letter of the alphabet that we have learned so far and read the card stacks aloud.
(The teacher judges the progress and mistakes made to give points or not.)
In the list below, which words are considered "squirrel words"?
"cactus", "pickup", "falcon", "misled", "punishes", "jacket"
What is "cactus", "falcon", "jacket".
Read aloud, scoop, and mark up the following sentences.... (3.1)
"Jan will unpack the boxes of comics I pulled from the trunk."
Teacher discretion:
"Jan will unpack the boxes of comics I pulled from the trunk."