Waxahachie ISD Kindergarten Phonics Continuum Phonics Focus Word Family TEKS Daily Exemplar Texas Treasures Lessons Unit 1: Sharing Ideas and Messages Exemplar Lesson 01: Sharing Ideas Names are made of letters K.1B Lesson 1 Start Smart Discriminate letters from numbers K.1B Lesson 2 Start Smart Print is associated with spoken language K.1B, K.1D Alphabetical order Lesson 3 Start Smart Identify letters: Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd K.1B What do you know about letters? Lesson 4 Start Smart, Week 1 Identify letters: Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh K.1B Letter order Lesson 5 Start Smart, Week 1 Identify letters: Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll K.1B, K.1D, K.18C Lesson 6 Start Smart, Week 2 What do you know about letters and your name? Identify letters: Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp Recognize and name the letters of the alphabet. Sequence the letters in their name and begin to write their name Lesson 7 Start Smart, Week 2 Identify letters: Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt Recognize and name the letters of the alphabet. Sequence the letters in their name and begin to write their name Identify letters: Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz Recognize and name the letters of the alphabet. Sequence the letters in their name and begin to write their name Place letters in one s name in order Read name aloud Awareness of sound patterns of spoken words Rhyming words vs. non-rhyming K.2C,D Lesson 8 Start Smart, Week 2 & 3 Lesson 9 Start Smart, Week 3 Lesson 10 Start Smart, Week 1 Lesson 11 Start Smart, Week 2
Awareness of sound patterns of spoken words K.2C,D Generate rhyming words Lesson 12 Start Smart, Week 2 Unit 1: Sharing Ideas and Messages Exemplar Lesson 02: Sharing Messages K.1D Lesson 13 What is a sentence? K.1E, K.2A Start Smart, Sentences are comprised of words Lesson 14 Weeks 1-3 Unit 3, Week 1 Difference between letters, words and sentences K.2A Start Smart, Lesson 15 Weeks 1-3 Compound words are made up of shorter words K.5B o Using pictures and oral language Lesson 16 Identify the short vowel sound for letter I/i/ K.3A Lesson 17 Unit 3, Week 2 Identify and sort pictures into conceptual categories K.5C Lesson 18 Unit 1, Weeks 1-3 Sort pictures into conceptual categories K.5C Lesson 19 Unit 1, Weeks 1-3 Identify the sound for letter T /t/ K.3A -it Lesson 20 Unit 3, Week 1 K.1D Lesson 13 Unit 2: Authors Write for a Purpose Exemplar Lesson 01: Reading and Writing with Purpose Identify the sound for letter P /p/ -ip K.1B, K.3A, Lesson 1 Unit 2, Week 2 Identify upper- and lower-case letters Phonological awareness: isolating and blend words parts Identify the sound for letter N /n/ Print concepts Identify letters, words, and sentences within text Identify the sound for letter S /s/ -in K.18A, K.21B K.3A Lesson 2 Smart Start, Week 3 K.3A, K.18A,B K.1A,B,C,D,E Lesson 3 Unit 4, Week 1 Lesson 4 K.3A, K.18A,B Lesson 5 Unit 2, Week 1 Identify syllables in spoken words K.2B, K.21B Lesson 6 Smart Start,Week 2 Identify the sound for letter A /a/ Identify sounds for previously learned letters Model spelling CVC words -at K.3A, K.18A,B K.1B, K.2F, K.3A, B, K.18A,B, Lesson 7 Unit 1, Week 2 Lesson 8
K.21B Identify the sound for letter L /l/ /l/ (in initial and final) K.18A,B Lesson 9 Unit 7, Week 2 Review sounds for Ll, Nn, Pp, Tt, Ss, Aa, Ii -ap K.3A Lesson 10 Identify the sound for letter D /d/ -ad K.18A,B Lesson 11 Unit 6, Week 2 Match sounds to spell and read words using d, l, p, s, -an n, t, a, i Lesson 12 Unit 2: Authors Write for a Purpose Exemplar Lesson 02: Reading and Writing Strategically Review upper- and lower-case letters and their K.1B, sounds learned to this point. K.17A, K.18A Lesson 13 K.1B, D, K.3A Lesson 14 Identify the sound for letter H /h/ /h/ (Initial) K.18A,B Lesson 15 Unit 6, Week 1 Match sounds to spell and read words Segmenting phonemes Lesson 16 Review letter pairs: Ii, Tt, Pp, Nn, Ss, Aa, Ll, Ff, Dd, K.1B, K3A, B, Hh K.17A, K.18A Lesson 17 Isolating beginning sounds and rime Review syllables K.3A Lesson 18 Identify and sort pictures into categories K.3A, K.5C Lesson 19 Review upper- and lower-case letters learned to K.1B, D, K.3A this point Lesson 20 Unit 3: Growing Readers and Writers Through Literary Works Exemplar Lesson 01: Building Literacy Through Folktales, Fables and Stories Identify the sound for letter G /g/ -ig Lesson 1 Unit 9, Week 1 Words that name actions are verbs. K.5A, K.21B Lesson 2 Unit 3 and 4 Identify the sound for letter short O /o/ -op K.18 A Lesson 3 Unit 5, Week 1 & 3 Use sequence words to retell at story K. Fig 19E, K.5A, K.21B Lesson 4 Unit 6, Week 3 Identify the sound for letter K /k/ Lesson 5 Unit 8, Week 1 & 3
Students demonstrate phonological awareness and use the relationships between letters and sounds to decode words. Identify the sound for letter C /c/ as in cat Alliteration in spoken language Identify the sound for letter M /m/ -am K.2F, H, C, K.21B Lesson 6 K.1E, K.2E, K.3A, K.17A, K.18A Lesson 7 Unit 4, Week 2 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Unit 1, Week 1 Identify alliteration in spoken language K.1B, K.2E Lesson 10 Identify the sound for letter R /r/ Lesson 11 Unit 6, Week 2 Review sounds K.1B, K.2G, Lesson 12 Unit 3: Growing Readers and Writers Through Literary Works Exemplar Lesson 02: Extending Literacy through Poetry and Stories Identify the sound for letter B /b/ Students demonstrate phonological awareness and use the relationships between letters and sounds to decode words. -ot K.2 F, G, H, I Lesson 13 Unit 7, Week 3 Lesson 14 Identify the sound for letter short E /e/ -et Blend spoken onsets and rimes Lesson 16 Review sounds that letters represent -ed K.1B, 3A, 21B Lesson 17 Alliteration K.2B, E Lesson 18 Performance Indicator assessment K.2F, H, 16Aii Lesson 19 Making words Performance Indicator assessment K.1B, K.2B, E, F, H, K.3A, K.21B Lesson 15 Unit 7, Week 1 Lesson 20
Unit 4: Growing Readers and Writers Through Text Exemplar Lesson 01: Extending Literacy Through Procedural and Expository Text Identify the sound for letter Y /y/ Lesson 1 Unit 10, Week 2 Word decoding CVC words K.2G, I Lesson 2 Identify the sound for letter J /j/ Lesson 3 Unit 10, Week 1 Word decoding CVC words K.2G, I Lesson 4 Identify the sound for letter short U /u/ -ug K.18A Lesson 5 Unit 8, Week 2 Word decoding CVC words -un K.2G, I Lesson 6 Identify the sound for letter W /w/ -et Lesson 7 Unit 9, Week 3 CVC dictation -ut K.2G, I, K.3A Lesson 8 Unit 4: Growing Readers and Writers Through Text Exemplar Lesson 02: Making Predictions and Asking Questions About Procedural Text Identify the sound for letter V /v/ Lesson 9 Unit 9, Week 2 High frequency word reading K.3D, K.18A Lesson 10 Identify the sound for letter X /x/ -ox K.2G, I Lesson 11 Unit 9, Week 2 K.5A Words that name directions, positions, and Unit 5 -ix K.15A Lesson 12 locations Unit 8 K.16Aiv Identify the sound for letter Z /z/ Lesson 13 Unit 10, Week 2 High frequency word reading K.3D Lesson 14 Identify the sound for letter Q /q/ Lesson 15 Unit 10, Week 1 Review of learned sounds K.3A Lesson 16 Initial letter substitution to make new words K.3C Lesson 17 High frequency words K.3A, D K.18A Lesson 18 Final letter substitution to make new words K.2G, I C Lesson 19
Performance Indicator assessment Unit 5A: Rediscovering Literary Text Exemplar Lesson 01: Available in late-january K.2G, I C K.17A Lesson 20