“Balanced comprehension instruction involves the development of word recognition skills, vocabulary, world knowledge, teaching comprehension strategies, and extensive reading of worthwhile books.”
First Steps Teacher Manual
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First Steps Training Manual
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Black Line Masters
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Weekly Lessons
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Section 1
🟣 Weeks 1 - 9
Developing Oral Phonemic Awareness
Sound-Symbol Correspondences
Handwriting
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Section 2
🟠 Weeks 10 - 11
Learning the Complete Folder Lesson to build and read words and to write a dictated sentence
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Section 3
🟡 🟢 Weeks 12 - 15
Language Ladder to teach Short Vowel CVC words
Guided Reading using Small Steps Series
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Section 4
🔵 Week 16
Mid-Year Assessment
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Section 5
🟡 🟢 Weeks 17 - 27
Language Ladder to teach Short Vowel CVC words
Guided Reading using Small Steps Series
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Section 6
Week 28
🔵 End-of-Year Assessment
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Full Manual
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