20 weeks of lesson help your students at the junior grade level, to improve and strengthen their phonetic and word attack skills which will enable them to have strong reading, spelling, and language skills. Each concept occupies a separate section in the book which contains teaching or reviewing ideas, worksheets, and a test.
How to Use Canadian Daily Phonics:
This book can be used to refresh forgotten skills, to teach new skills to students who are having problems with reading or students who are learning to read, write, or spell in a new language. Each concept is reviewed over a period of time. Each period of time has a lesson plan and daily worksheets, picture identification key, answer key for worksheets and a concept test.
Each weekly plan contains an :
• Objective
• Teacher Information
• Daily Planning Ideas containing games, listening activities, stories and riddles.
• A Picture Key is provided for each worksheet that has pictures so they can be identified.
• Four Weekly Activity Worksheets focus on the concept(s) taught during the week.
• Weekly Tests are provided and could be held on the last day of the week or when it is necessary.
Sequential Development of Skills
1. Initial Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, k, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
2. Medial Consonants: b, c, d, f, g, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, v, w, z
3. Final Consonants: b, d, f, g, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, x, z
4. Hard and Soft 'Cc' and 'Gg'
5. Long and Short Vowels 'a, e, i, o, u'
6. 'R' Blends: br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, wr
7. 'L' Blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl
8. 'S' Blends: sc, sl, spl, spr, squ, sp, sm, sn, st, str, sk, sw, scr, sc
9. Initial, Medial, Final Digraphs: ch, sh, wh, th, ph, shr, thr
10. Silent Letters in Blends: rh, wr, gn, sc, st
11. 'K' Sound in letters: c, k, ck, ch, que
12. Digraphs that make the 'f' sound: ph, gh
13 Consonants that make the 's' sound: s, z, sh
14. Letters that make the 'k' sound: k, c, ck, sh, que
15. Silent letters in gn, sc, wr
16. Suffixes 's, ing, ed, er, est, ly, less, ful, ment, ness, y, le, ly
17. Regular Double Vowels: ai, ay, ee, ea, ei, oa, oe
18. Vowel Digraphs: ei, ey, ea, ie, oo, au, aw
19. Dipthongs: oi, oy, ew, ou, ow
20 Syllabication
21. Adding Suffixes to Root Words
22. Plural Forms of Words
23. Using the Apostrophe
24. Adding Prefixes: un, dis, non, ir, im, il, in, en, em, mis, ex, re, de, com, col, con, a, ac, ad
25. Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms
