Building Reading Fluency 1st Grade

This class is designed for students about to enter first grade, in first grade or recent first grade graduates looking for a review. The drills and exercises in this class will give students the tools they need to improve their reading fluency. They will correctly identify sounds, read real words, nonsense words, trick words, phrases, and stories to build their reading fluency and improve their overall reading level. Students will use choral, echo, and independent reading methods in this class. Each student will have a turn to participate as we practice these reading fluency drills! This class focus on alphabet sounds, digraphs (sh, th, ch, ck, wh), and glued sounds (all, am, an). 

Fall 2024 Full School Year Course 

Week of September 15 Short A
Week of September 22 Short E
Week of September 29 Short I
Week of October 6 Short O
Week of October 13 Short U 
Week of October 20 Glued Sounds (am/an/all)
Week of October 27 Doubling Rules (F/L/S/Z)
Week of November 3 -er ending 
Week of November 10 Blends - S 
Week of November 17 Blends F/G
Week of November 24 Blends B/P
Week of December 1  Silent E Words with Vowel A
Week of December 8 Silent E Words with Vowel I
Week of December 15 Silent E Words with Vowel O
Week of December 22 Silent E Words with Vowel U
**Winter Break** 
Week of January 5 Digraph SH 
Week of January 12Digraph CH 
Week of January 19  Digraph TH

Week of February 2 PH sound
Week of February 9  Other CH sounds
Week of February 16 Silent W 
Week of February 23 Final Consonant Blends (nd)
Week of March 2 Final Consonant  Blends (mp)
Week of March 9 3  letter blends (shr, spr, spl)
Week of March 16 Double Consonant Endings 
Week of March 23 Glued Sounds (ang, ing, ong, ung)
Week of March 30 Open Vowels 
Week of April 6  Suffixes -s, -es
Week of April 13 Inflectional Ending - ing
Week of April 20 Inflectional Ending - ed
Week of April 27 Long A Vowel Teams 
Week of May 4 Long E Vowel Teams 
Week of May 11 Short E Vowel Teams 
Week of May 18 Long O Vowel Teams 
Week of May 25 Soft C & G 
Week of June 1  R-controlled words (ar)
Week of June 8 R-controlled words (or)
Week of June 15 R-controlled words (er)