1stGrade Training Workshop
First grade students are taught phase 5 (vowel sounds), phase 5.5 (sound families) and phase 6 (early suffixes) with the Rainbow Phonics Scope and Sequence.
This under-30-minute training video from Jessica Farmer provides an overview of Rainbow Phonics at first grade. Jessica explains how Rainbow Phonics is grounded in the Science of Reading and follows a clear Scope and Sequence for graphemes and heart words.
Decodable readers are included throughout, each aligned to the Scope and Sequence. The Teacher Planner for 1st Grade introduces the lesson with teach, practice and apply sections, following the teaching strategy of I do, we do, you do. Every lesson has daily matching slides. These are available FREE from the RainbowPhonics.com website and editable.
This workshop provides an example of teaching sound family /ai/ and the daily lesson slides associated with the lesson. The focus is on phonemic awareness, grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, spelling rules, decoding words, blending phonemes, encoding words, assessment and decodable word building practice.
There is also a lesson example from Phase 6 teaching the suffix -s. The focus is on modeling the addition of suffix -s to make the noun plural and word building by adding the suffix -s.
