Fishtank
BUSD Resources
Functional Phonics
Functional Morphology
T.O. Deets
100

Teachers will always say this at the beginning of their Fishtank lesson

What is the objective, goal, purpose?

100

This is the go-to resource that includes all ELA lessons and assessments by week.

What is the grade level pacing guide

100

segementing, blending, isolating, deleting and/or substituting are all examples of

phonemic awareness routines

100

underlining the base word, circling the prefix and boxing the suffix is part of

multisyllabic word routine

100

The name of our new counselor 

What is Matthew, Matt, or Mr. Matt

200

These are the overarching questions mentioned throughout the unit and some teachers have them posted :)

What are the essential questions

200

Name one person you could go to if you have a "literacy" related question?

Angelica, Viri, Rose, Erica, my colleagues!

200

These are the assessments given at the end of Day 5 of any phonics or morphology lesson

What are formative assessments

200

TRUE OR FALSE

There are phonics and morphology videos available in the FP & M website

TRUE

200

The place where we can find site related docs

Staff Shared Resource Folder created by Jenna

300

Name two ways students can engage with the text

What is teacher read aloud, partner reading, shared reading, independent reading, reading circles, etc.

300

This is known as a work day same grade level teachers come together to reflect, score assessments, and plan upcoming units

What are sub release days

300

high-frequency words with irregular or temporarily irregular spellings that must be memorized

What are Heart Words

300

These are additional  opportunities for students to practice their skills beyond the lesson

What are the independent or home-connection sheets

400

This is the response to readibg activity students do at the end of a lesson

What is the Target Task

400

TRUE OR FALSE

We do have access to all the grade levels ELA curricula 

TRUE

400


The _______________________ can be used to help determine specific phonics skill areas of need. It is an optional, yet highly recommended assessment.


What is the Functional Phonics Decoding Survey

400

TRUE OR FALSE


There aren't fluency passages students can use to practice their fluency :(

FALSE

500

This is also known as the end of the unit evaluation we analyze at our grade level sub release days

What is the end of unit content assessment