The attachment explains the theory and function of our phonics program, Fundations. It also gives specific instructions on how best to support phonics and reading skills at home. Level 2 of Fundations® builds on the basic skills that were learned in Kindergarten and First Grade, while progressing further into the study of word structure. Fundations, phonics skills will be combined with a wide variety of text experiences, and expose students to poetry, narrative and informational text.
By the end of Level 2, students will be able to:
- Know and apply grade-level phonics and word-analysis skills in decoding words
- Segment syllables into sounds (phonemes)–up to six sounds
- Identify word structures such as vowels, consonants, blends, digraphs, and digraph blends
- Identify parts of words (syllables, basewords, suffixes)
- Identify all six syllable types: closed, vowel-consonant-e, open, r-controlled, vowel digraph/diphthong, and consonant-le
- Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one-syllable words
- Read and spell words with short vowels
- Read and spell words with long vowels in vowel-consonant-e and open syllables
- Read and spell words with r-controlled vowels (ar, er, ir, or, ur)
- Read and spell words with vowel teams (ai, ay, ee, ey, ea, oi, oy, oa, ow, oe, ou, oo, ue, ew, au, aw)
- Read and spell words with unexpected vowel sounds (old, ild, ind, ost, olt, ive)
- Read and spell words with suffixes (-s, -es, -ed,-ing, -est, -ish, -able, -ive, -y, -ful, -ment, -less, -ness, -ly, -ty)
- Read and spell words with common prefixes (un-, dis-, mis-, non-, trans-, pre-, pro-, re-, de-)
- Read and spell phonetically regular one-, two- and three-syllable words
- Identify words with inconsistent but common spelling-sound correspondences
- Read and spell the first 200 high frequency words including irregular words
- Divide multisyllabic words
- Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
- Use synonyms
- Know some multiple meaning words
- Apply dictionary skills
- Use correct writing position and pencil grip
- Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate
- Spell words with options for the grapheme representation for sounds with use of a spell checker or dictionary
- Apply correct punctuation (period, question mark, exclamation point)
- Apply capitalization rules for beginning of sentences and names of people
- Read controlled stories with fluency, expression and understanding
- Read approximately 90 words per minute with fluency and understanding
- Retell short narrative stories, recounting key ideas and details
- Retell facts from informational text
- Locate facts and details in narrative and informational writing
- Skim for information
- Make judgments, predictions from given facts
- Use sentence-level context as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase
- Determine the meaning of a new word when a prefix is added to a known word
- Use knowledge of the meaning of individual words to predict the meaning of a compound word
- Identify real life connections between words and their use — answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions with narrative and informational texts
- Answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions with narrative and informational text
- Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges
- Determine the central message of a story
- Identify the main topic/purpose of an informational text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs
- Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts, including using adjectives and adverbs to describe
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