Scope and Sequence for Lectoescritura

By building a solid foundation of phonological awareness and phonics, students will learn the sounds of vowels and common consonants first, and blend them to form syllables. Syllables will also be blended to form words. Less frequent consonants and other complex elements of the Spanish language will be presented at a later stage of the program.
 

In Kindergarten, students develop reading comprehension, writing, listening and speaking, language, and foundational skills in the following ways:

• Reading comprehension: Students answer literal, evaluative, and inferential story questions. Halfway through Kindergarten, students move from whole class reading instruction in Big Books to teacher guided independent and partner reading in decodable Student Readers, still using the Big Book as a model and support.
• Writing: As students learn new sounds, they will also learn the phoneme to grapheme correspondence of each. The embedded activities and Activity Book provide a daily opportunity to practice the formation of individual letters, syllables, words and eventually sentences that contain the sound being taught in each lesson. In later units, students are guided through the Plan-Draft-Edit writing process.
• Listening and speaking: Students engage in a range of whole group, small group, and partner discussions about text and daily lesson content.
• Language: Students receive explicit instruction that introduces vocabulary and common words, or palabras comunes, to support decoding. Instruction also includes attention to the conventions of Spanish, including the use of question words, prepositions and plural nouns in oral speech, as well as capitalization and end punctuation in writing.
• Foundational skills: Students begin with awareness of vowels and the most frequent consonant sounds, then practice blending those sounds into syllables, then blend those syllables into words with the ultimate goal of reading multisyllabic (2-3) words and complete sentences.

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In Grade 1, students develop reading comprehension, writing, listening and speaking, language, and foundational skills in the following ways:

• Reading comprehension: Students answer literal, evaluative, and inferential questions, including textual citations, and read with increasing independence and expression of individual interpretation of text. Reading instruction utilizes both the Student Reader and Big Book until Unit 5 when students transition into solely using the Student Reader.
• Listening and speaking: Students engage in a range of whole group, small group, and partner discussions about text and daily lesson content.
• Language: Students receive explicit instruction that introduces vocabulary and common words, or palabras comunes, to support decoding. Students also work to increase the use of new vocabulary in their written responses. In addition, discussions require the use of words in context. Explicit grammar instruction includes using parts of speech, such as nouns and verbs, and different forms of sentences, tenses, and punctuation.
• Foundational skills: Students review vowels and the most frequent consonant sounds and are introduced complications like multisyllabic words, digraphs, accents, diphthongs, and hiatus.

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In Grade 2, students develop reading comprehension, writing, listening and speaking, language, and foundational skills in the following ways:

• Listening and speaking: Students engage in a range of whole group, small group, and partner discussions about text and daily lesson content.
• Language: Students receive explicit instruction that introduces vocabulary and common words, or palabras comunes, to support decoding. Students also work to increase the nuanced use of new vocabulary in their written responses. In addition, discussions require the use of words in context in a range of settings. Explicit grammar instruction includes subjects and predicates, sentence expansion with adjectives and adverbs, and more advanced punctuation.
• Foundational skills: Students continue to learn additional spelling complications as well as the tools needed to decode more challenging multi-syllable words; increasing emphasis on developing fluency, automaticity, and prosody in reading more complex texts.

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