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Reading Horizons Discovery: Changes to the Curriculum
Heidi Hyte [email protected]
September 11, 2012
Reading Horizons Discovery Curriculum
What’s changed?
Modifications to the Curriculum:
• Specific changes to the content and sequence to better accommodate needs.
• Differentiation between the Kindergarten sequence and the Grades 1-3 sequence.
• Changes to the Most Common Words lists and language and grammar lessons (Reference Lessons).
Modifications to the
•
Curriculum:
Specific changes to the content and sequence to better accommodate needs.
• Differentiation between the Kindergarten and the Grades 1-3 sequence.
• Changes to the Most Common Words lists and language and grammar lessons (Reference Lessons).
Discover Intensive Phonics
Sequence
• • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Long and Short Vowels Phonetic Skills Adding Suffixes Murmur Diphthongs Digraphs Special Vowel Sounds Decoding Skills Decoding Exceptions Extra Skills Reading Horizons Discovery™
Discover Intensive Phonics
Sequence
• • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes Murmur Diphthongs Digraphs Special Vowel Sounds
Decoding Skills
Decoding Exceptions Extra Skills Reading Horizons Discovery™
Discover Intensive Phonics
Sequence
• • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes Murmur Diphthongs
Digraphs
Special Vowel Sounds
Decoding Skills
Decoding Exceptions Extra Skills Reading Horizons Discovery™
Discover Intensive Phonics • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes Murmur Diphthongs
Digraphs
Special Vowel Sounds
Decoding Skills
Decoding Exceptions Extra Skills
Sequence
Reading Horizons Discovery™ • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Voiced/Voiceless and Digraphs (
TH, TH)
Digraphs (
CH, SH, WH, PH)
Long and Short Vowels Phonetic Skills Adding Suffixes Decoding Skills Murmur Diphthongs Special Vowel Sounds Extra Skills
Discover Intensive Phonics • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes Murmur Diphthongs
Digraphs
Special Vowel Sounds
Decoding Skills
Decoding Exceptions Extra Skills
Sequence
Reading Horizons Discovery™ • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Voiced/Voiceless and Digraphs (
TH, TH)
Digraphs (
CH, SH, WH, PH)
Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes
Decoding Skills
Murmur Diphthongs Special Vowel Sounds Extra Skills
Discover Intensive Phonics • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes Murmur Diphthongs
Digraphs
Special Vowel Sounds
Decoding Skills
Decoding Exceptions Extra Skills
Sequence
Reading Horizons Discovery™ • • • • • • • • • • • • • Alphabet Blends Double
S, F, and Z
Special Vowel Combinations
Voiced/Voiceless and Digraphs (TH, TH) Digraphs (CH, SH, WH, PH)
Long and Short Vowels
Phonetic Skills
Adding Suffixes
Decoding Skills
Murmur Diphthongs Special Vowel Sounds Extra Skills
Sequence
Summary • 100 lessons • Digraphs have been moved up in the sequence • Decoding Skills are taught earlier • Additional skills are more similarly align with Reading Horizons • Reference Lessons align with Common Core State Standards
Modifications to the Curriculum:
• Specific changes to the content and sequence to better accommodate needs.
•
Differentiation between the Kindergarten and the Grades 1-3 tracks.
• Changes to the Most Common Words lists and language and grammar lessons (Reference Lessons).
Kindergarte n Track
Instructi onal Tracks
• Two (2) Chapters • 57 Lessons – 42 Skill Lessons (39 standard lessons, plus three optional lessons) – Seven (7) Reference Lessons – Eight (8) MCW Lists • 10 Stories (
Little Books
) Grades 1-3 Track • Six (6) Chapters • 100 Lessons – 63 Skill Lessons – 15 Reference Lessons – 22 MCW Lists • 64 Stories (
Little Books
)
Assets for Each Track
Lesson Type Kindergarten Track
Standard Lessons MCW Lessons Reference Lessons Stories (Little Books) 39 8 7 10
First Grade Track
43
Second Grade Track
58 18 14 44 21 15 59
Third Grade Track
63 22 15 64
Assessments for Each Track
Lesson Type
Tests Phonemic Awareness Assessments MCW Assessments Spelling Assessments
Kindergarten Track
7 7 3 1
First Grade Track
4
Second Grade Track
5 7 4 3 7 5 4
Third Grade Track
6 7 6 4
Modifications to the Curriculum:
• Specific changes to the content and sequence to better accommodate needs.
• • Differentiation between the Kindergarten and the Grades 1-3 sequence.
Changes to the Most Common Words lists and language and grammar lessons (Reference Lessons).
Most Common Words
Discover Intensive Phonics Reading Horizons Discovery™ • Nine (9) Most Common Words Lists – 147 Most Common Words • 22 Most Common Words Lists – 300 Most Common Words
Most Common Words
• Derived from Fry’s Frequently Used Word List – Kindergarten: First 30 words – First Grade: First 100 words – Second Grade: First 200 words – Third Grade: First 300 words
Reference Lessons
Discover Intensive Phonics Reading Horizons Discovery™ • No Reference Lessons – Embedded language and grammar instruction • 15 Reference Lessons (7 for Kindergarten) – Aligned with the Common Core State Standards
Reference Lessons
• Capitalization • Punctuation • Alphabetical Order • Commas • Compound Words • Contractions • Nouns • Verbs • Adjectives • Adverbs • Sentence Structure • Determiners • Conjunctions • Antonyms, Synonyms, and More • Root Words, Prefixes, and Suffixes
Modifications to the Curriculum:
• Specific changes to the content and sequence to better accommodate needs.
• Differentiation between the Kindergarten and the Grades 1-3 sequence.
• Changes to the Most Common Words lists and language and grammar lessons (Reference Lessons).