Using a predictable text to teach high-frequency words

English Language Arts (2004)

Grade 1

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
    • generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
    • use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
    • recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
    • read compound words and contractions.
    • read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
    • read appropriate word families.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Select and use new vocabulary and language structures in both speech and writing contexts (e.g., oral retelling using exclamatory phrases to accent an idea or event).
  • Objective 4.05: Write and/or participate in writing by using an author's model of language and extending the model (e.g., writing different ending for a story, composing an innovation of a poem).

Grade 2

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
  • Objective 1.02: Read most high frequency and many irregularly spelled words accurately in text.

Kindergarten

• Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies to read and write.
  • Objective 1.03: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
    • recognize and name upper and lower case letters of the alphabet.
    • recognize some words by sight including a few common words, own name, and environmental print such as signs, labels, and trademarks.
    • recognize most beginning consonant letter-sound associations in one-syllable words.
  • Objective 1.04: Read or begin to read.
    • Read or attempt to read own dictated story.
    • Attempt to read/reads simple patterned text, decodable text, and/or predictable texts using letter-sound knowledge and pictures to construct meaning.
• Goal 4: The learner will apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
  • Objective 4.01: Use new vocabulary in own speech and writing.
  • Objective 4.06: Write and/or participate in writing behaviors by using authors' models of language.