Pathway to Fluency Level 1, Sound Wall with Mouth Pictures, Science of Reading

Pathway to Fluency is a complete and comprehensive Science of Reading (SoR) Aligned Curriculum! Look no further for your whole-group, small-group and one-on-one reading instruction. Pathway to Fluency has been developed to teach everything from phonological awareness to fluency and spelling in a systematic way using methods that are proven to be effective.

Level 1:

Unit 1: Letters and Letter Sounds

Unit 2: CVC, CVCs, Double Consonants and Silent e

Unit 3: Consonant Blends and Consonant Digraphs

Unit 4: Vowel Rules (R-Controlled Vowels, Lonely Vowel, and Intro to Vowel Teams

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What does this curriculum cover?

This curriculum focuses on developing students' abilities to read and write. This is done by building skills in four major areas:

1. Phonological and Phonemic Awareness- The ability to hear and manipulate sounds and words

2. Phonics- Knowing and using letter sound correspondences

3. Fluency- Recognizing known decodable words and common irregular high frequency words

4. Printing and spelling- Learning letter formation. Using phonics and high frequency word knowledge to spell and write.

Where does this curriculum fit?

This curriculum incorporates phonemic awareness, phonics, high frequency words, printing, and decodable reading allowing you to use one straight forward and cohesive curriculum instead of several separate programs.

****Use this Level 1 of this curriculum in conjunction with the Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Curriculum for a complete reading block. The Kindergarten Reading Comprehension will incorporate both vocabulary and comprehension fulfilling all components that make up the Simple View of Reading.

Unit 1: Letters and Letter Sounds - In Unit 1, students will be explicitly taught letters and letter-sound relationships. High-utility letter-sound relationships are taught early while introducing consonants and vowels in a sequence that allows students to read words quickly.

At the end of 9 weeks of instruction, students will be able to identify, name and write both upper and lowercase letters. For students who are ready, a soft introduction to CVC words in provided. Unit 1 sets the stage for Unit 2, where students will begin reading CVC words.

• Week 1: Letters m, t, p & a
• Week 2: Letters n, b, s & i
• Week 3: Letters h, d, g & o
• Week 4: Review
• Week 5: Letters r, f, c & e
• Week 6: Letters l, k, j & u
• Week 7: Letters z, w & y
• Week 8: Letters v, x & q(u)
• Week 9: Review

Pre-Reader High Frequency (Heart Words) the, a, for, you, and, is, I, was, of, to

Unit 2: CVC, CVCs, Simple Double Consonant & Silent e - Unit 2: Letters and Letter Sounds: In Unit 2 of Pathway to Fluency Reading Curriculum, students will be provided with a strong foundation in daily phonological and phonemic awareness, segmenting and blending words through orthographically mapping words, high frequency words practice (regular and irregular), and practicing with authentic decodable books.

By the end of 9 weeks of instruction, students will be able to fluently decode and encode CVC words, CVC plural words, CVCe words and simple double consonant words.

• Week 1: Short a CVC Words
• Week 2: Short i CVC Words
• Week 3: Short o CVC Words
• Week 4: Review of weeks 1-3
• Week 5: Short u and e CVC Words
• Week 6: Plural s and Simple Double Consonants
• Week 7: _a_e & _i_e Words
• Week 8: _o_e & _u_e Words
• Week 9: Review of weeks 5-8

Unit 3: Consonant Blends & Consonant Digraphs

• Week 1: Beginning Blends
• Week 2: Beginning Blends
• Week 3: Ending Blends
• Week 4: Review of weeks 1-3
• Week 5: sh and qu words
• Week 6: th and ph words
• Week 7: ck and wh words
• Week 8: ch and tch words
• Week 9: Review of weeks 5-8

Unit 4: Vowel Rules: (R-Controlled Vowels, Lonely Vowel and Intro to Vowel Teams)

• Week 1: ar words
• Week 2: or words
• Week 3: er, ir, and ur words
• Week 4: Review of weeks 1-3
• Week 5: Lonely Vowel Words
• Week 6: Soft intro to ai and ay words
• Week 7: Soft intro to ee and ea words
• Week 8: Soft intro to oa and oe words
• Week 9: Review of weeks 5-8

Unit 4: Vowel Rules (R Controlled Vowels, Lonely Vowel, & Introduction to Vowel Teams)

This curriculum is designed to allow for flexible implementation. However, a general guide is provided below.

• Whole-Group Lesson (15 Minutes)

Whole-group lessons cover phonemic awareness, phonological awareness, phonics, letters, decoding, high frequency words, fluency, printing, and spelling.

• Small-Group Literacy Centers (40+ Minutes)

Students will break up into small groups to work on activities at their assigned center stations. You may choose to have each small group go to a new station each day, or you can rotate the center activities to a new group each day.

• Independent Practice

Independent practice is provided to accompany each center. Depending on your classroom organization and time constraints these can be used at a station during small-group center time, for whole group seat work, as morning work, or as homework.

• Tracking & Assessments

Students will be assessed twice per unit. The assessments in Unit 1 cover phonological awareness, phonics, and high frequency words*. As units progress, students will also be assessed on reading and spelling. Guides are provided to help you use this data to group your students effectively. See Lesson Plans & Assessments explanation page for more information.

*Note- The first 100 Dolch words are explicitly taught and assessed in this Level 1 curriculum. However, they are taught in phonetic order, not list order.

What is included in Unit 1 of this download?

0_ Start Here File: This file guides you through the basics of implementing a seamless, fun, and engaging SoR aligned curriculum in your classroom! In this file you will find the following:

• Sequence for Levels 1 and 2
• Pathway to Fluency Detailed Scope for Level 1
• Getting Started: Background
• Picture overview of all components of this curriculum in action so you can see exactly how to organize and implement this reading program.
• Lesson Plan layout and explanation
• Sound Wall examples and use
• Poster explanations
• Classroom Center Activities
• Center Independent Practice Layout
• T3 Teacher Table Tools explanation for differentiated Instruction
• T3 Teacher Table Tools Books Printing
• T3 Teacher Table Tools Handwriting Book Explanation
• 3 Page Reading Glossary - As you use this Science of Reading Aligned Curriculum and learn more about how to implement science of reading strategies, you may find this glossary helpful as a review of the definitions of terms.

01 Lesson Plans and Assessments:

• Unit 1 - 45 days of explicit and systematic instruction for all letters and letter sounds. Mid and Post Assessments to drive instruction. The following components will be covered in each lesson:
  • Oral Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
  • Explicit Phonics Instruction
  • High Frequency Words Instruction
  • Application and Independent Practice / Small group differentiation

02 Whole Group Resources:

• Sound Wall for Whole Class
• Personal Sound Walls for small groups or individual students
• Letter Formation Posters
• High Frequency Instruction Posters
• Whole Class Say it, Tap it, Map it, Write it Poster

03 Center Activities and Independent Practice:

• Clipart Key for each set of words
• 9 weeks of Phonics Focused Centers (Weeks 4 and 9 are Review Weeks)
• High Frequency Word (Heart Word) Practice for the 10 suggested Pre-Reading Words

04 Teacher Table Tools (for small groups and differentiation)

• Handwriting Practice Book
• 26 Letter and Book of Sounds
• High Frequency (Heart Word) Books
• Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Guide
• Mini Letter Formation and Sound Cards
• Letter Formation Lines Mat (2 options)
• Targeted Letter Formation and Letter Practice
• Letter Formation Mats (3 options)
• Upper and Lowercase Letter and Letter Sound Match Game
• Spin, Say, Trace Activity (2 options
• Letter Sounds (3-in-One Game)
• Heart Word Flash Cards
• Say it, Map it, Graph it Cards
• Heart Word Practice Pages
• Application Strips for identifying letters, sounds, words, or reading decodable sentences.
• Letter Sound Fluency Strips and Tracker for practicing letter sounds and letter names
• Fluency Racers for High Frequency Words and Letter Sounds and Letters (Review Weeks)
• CVC Segment and Blend Mat and Cards for students who are ready to apply their new learning of letters and letter sounds with segmenting and blending.
• Alphabet Letter Book of Sounds
• Pre-Reader Heart Word Books for the following: the, a, I, was, to, and, was, for, you, is, of
• Handwriting Book

What is included in Unit 2 of this download?

0_ Start Here File: This file guides you through the basics of implementing a seamless, fun, and engaging SoR aligned curriculum in your classroom! (See Unit 1 description for this file).

01 Lesson Plans and Assessments:

• Unit 2 - 45 days of explicit and systematic instruction for teaching CVC, CVCs, CVCe, and simple double consonant words. Mid and Post Assessments to drive instruction. The following components will be covered in each lesson:
• Oral Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
• Explicit Phonics Instruction
• High Frequency Words Instruction
• Application and Independent Practice / Small group differentiation

02 Whole Group Resources:

• Map it, Graph it, Write it Posters
• High Frequency Instruction Posters
• Word Building Letter Cards

03 Center Activities and Independent Practice:

• Clipart Key for each set of words
• 9 weeks of Phonics Focused Centers (Weeks 4 and 9 are Review Weeks)
• Decodable High Frequency Words and Irregular High Frequency Words practice

04 Teacher Table Tools (for small groups and differentiation)

• Daily Handwriting Phonics Practice Books with weekly Dictation Sentences
• 20 Decodable Readers Aligned to the Lesson Plans
• 20 Phonics Practice Books for each Phonics Skill taught
• Weekly Teacher Table Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Lessons
• Weekly Teacher Table Chaining Activities with a Chaining File Folder Tool
• Small Group Word List with Phonemic Awareness Instruction
• Phonemic Awareness Tap it and Map it Cards for all Phonics Skills Taught
• Phonemic Awareness Map it and Zap it Mats
• Road Readers for Segmenting and Blending words
• Blending Bus Math with Word Lists
• Listen, Map it and Build it
• Word Chains/Ladders
• Fluency Word Strips
• High Frequency Word Cards and Practice Cards
• Heart Word Practice Sheets
• Application Strips: Phrases and Sentences
• Fluency Racers for Review (Heart Words and Phonics Practice)
• Weekly Dictation Sentence Practice
• Ending Sounds of S Cards (voiced or unvoiced)
• Reversal Practice (b and d, p and q, mixed practice)

What is included in Unit 3 of this download?

0_ Start Here File: This file guides you through the basics of implementing a seamless, fun, and engaging SoR aligned curriculum in your classroom! (See Unit 1 description for this file).

01 Lesson Plans and Assessments:

• Unit 3 - 45 days of explicit and systematic instruction for teaching beginning blends, ending blends, and basic digraphs. Mid and Post Assessments to drive instruction. The following components will be covered in each lesson:
• Oral Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
• Explicit Phonics Instruction
• High Frequency Words Instruction
• Application and Independent Practice / Small group differentiation

03 Center Activities and Independent Practice:

• Clipart Key for each set of words
• 9 weeks of Phonics Focused Centers (Weeks 4 and 9 are Review Weeks)
• Decodable High Frequency Words and Irregular High Frequency Words practice

04 Teacher Table Tools (for small groups and differentiation)

• Daily Handwriting Phonics Practice Books with weekly Dictation Sentences
• 20 Decodable Readers Aligned to the Lesson Plans
• Weekly Teacher Table Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Lessons
• Weekly Teacher Table Chaining Activities with a Chaining File Folder Tool
• Small Group Word Lists with Phonemic Awareness Instruction
• Encoding (Spelling words) for all weeks
• Making Words / Identifying real words and nonsense words
• Which Word? Read to Identify the word that matches the picture
• Word Mapping: Say it, Tap it, Map it, Write it
• Word Strips for each week (Beginning Blends, Ending Blends, Digraphs)
• High Frequency (Heart Word) Cards
• Phrases: Application Strips
• Sentences: Application Strips
• Fluency Racers (High Frequency Words)
• Fluency Racers (Phonics Words)
• Read and Seek Passages with Targeted Instruction for students at 3 levels (9 passages)
• Listen and Write Dictation Sentences

What is included in Unit 4 of this download?

0_ Start Here File: This file guides you through the basics of implementing a seamless, fun, and engaging SoR aligned curriculum in your classroom! (See Unit 1 description for this file).

01 Lesson Plans and Assessments:

• Unit 3 - 45 days of explicit and systematic instruction for teaching r-controlled vowels, lonely vowel and simple vowel teams. Mid and Post Assessments to drive instruction. The following components will be covered in each lesson:
• Oral Phonological and Phonemic Awareness
• Explicit Phonics Instruction
• High Frequency Words Instruction
• Application and Independent Practice / Small group differentiation

03 Center Activities and Independent Practice:

• Clipart Key for each set of words
• 9 weeks of Phonics Focused Centers (Weeks 4 and 9 are Review Weeks)
• Decodable High Frequency Words and Irregular High Frequency Words practice

04 Teacher Table Tools (for small groups and differentiation)

• Daily Handwriting Phonics Practice Books with weekly Dictation Sentences
• 20 Decodable Readers Aligned to the Lesson Plans
• Word Lists for all weeks
• Weekly Teacher Table Phonological and Phonemic Awareness Lessons
• Weekly Teacher Table Chaining Activities with a Chaining File Folder Tool
• Small Group Word Lists with Phonemic Awareness Instruction
• Graph, Blend and Read Mats
• Read and Match for each week
• Say it, Tap it, Write it Mats
• Lonely Vowel: Spin, Read and Trace
• Word Strips for each week (Beginning Blends, Ending Blends, Digraphs)
• High Frequency (Heart Word) Cards
• Phrases: Application Strips
• Sentences: Application Strips
• Fluency Racers (High Frequency Words)
• Fluency Racers (Phonics Words)
• Read and Seek Passages with Targeted Instruction for students at 3 levels (9 passages)
• Listen and Write Dictation Sentences

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