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This Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade dictation practice resource is aligned with the Science of Reading and includes 92 weeks of dictation activities that follow my research-based Scope and Sequence.
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Dictation is guided spelling practice. It is a systematic way for you to connect the skills you teach in reading to student writing. Dictation practice offers students an engaging way to accelerate their writing and spelling skills, with your guidance and corrective feedback to support them. Dictation activities should be fairly quick and completed at least twice per week as a way for teachers to model how to use new phonics skills in writing.
This resource of 92 weeks of dictation practice activities. Each week includes 2 teacher guides that highlight the week’s focus skill. Review of previously learned phonics skills is also built into each week. In addition, students get practice with heart words (irregularly spelled high-frequency words) in the sentence portion.
A lesson outline for teacher guidance and a sample lesson are also included. There are 7 versions of student dictation recording sheets. Dictation lessons will increase in difficulty as the year progresses.
Included in this resource:
- 10+ pages of Lesson Outline & Sample Lesson for teacher reference
- 184 Dictation Teacher Guides (2 per phonics skill)
- 7 options for differentiated Student Recording Sheets
Kindergarten Phonics Skills Included:
- Letters: Mm, short a, Ss, Pp, Tt, short i, Nn Bb, Cc, Short o, Ff, Hh, Dd, Rr, Gg, Short e, Ll, Short u, Kk, Ww, Jj, Xx, Vv, Qu, Yy, Zz
- CVC: short a, short i, short o, short e, short u, short vowel review
- Blends: l blends, s blends, r blends, final blends, blends review
- Digraphs: digraph ch, digraph sh, digraph th (voiced & voiceless), digraph wh, digraph ng
- open syllable e, i, o (ex. hi, be)
- final e: a_e, o_e, i_e
1st Grade Phonics Skills Included:
- CVC: short a, short i, short o, short e, short u, short vowel review
- Blends: l blends, s blends, r blends, final blends, 3 letter blends, blends review
- Digraphs: digraph ch & tch, digraph sh, digraph th (voiced & voiceless), digraph wh, digraph ng
- final e: a_e, o_e, i_e, u_e, e_e
- open syllable e, i, o (ex. hi, be)
- Vowel teams: long vowel a (ai, ay), long vowel e (ee, ea), long vowel o (oa, ow), long vowel i ( _y, igh), long vowel u (u, ew, ue)
- r-controlled vowels: r-controlled ar, r-controlled er, ir, ur, r-controlled or, ore
- Variant vowels & Diphthongs: variant vowel short oo, variant vowel long u (oo), diphthong ow, ou, diphthong oi, oy,
- Other vowels: complex vowel /aw/: aw, all, long i and o (ie, oe), long e (y, ey, ie, ei)
2nd grade Phonics Skills Included:
- CVC short vowel
- closed syllables, closed & consonant + le syllables
- blends: l, r, s, blends, final blends
- open syllables, open & consonant + le syllables
- digraphs: sh, ch, tch, th, wh, _ng, ph
- final e: a_e, o_e, i_e, u_e, e_e
- final e syllables
- Vowel teams: long a (a, ai, ay), long e (e, ee, ea, y, ey, ie, ei), long o (o, oa, ow, oe), long i (i, igh, y, ie), long u (u, ew, ue)
- vowel team syllables
- r-controlled vowels: r-controlled ar, r-controlled er, ir, ur, r-controlled or, ore
- r-controlled syllables, r-controlled & consonant + le syllables
- variant vowels & diphthongs: variant vowel short oo, variant vowel long oo, diphthong ou, ow, diphthong oi, oy
- complex vowel /aw/ (au, aw, alk, alt, all)
- vowel team syllables: diphthongs & variant vowels
- review six syllable types
- other final stable syllables: -ture, -sure, -ion, -tion, -sion
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Brooke L. –
I use this at the end of my small groups to help with writing skills
Tools for Busy Hands –
Love the size and function of this bundle. It hits all the skills nicely and will be an excellent data point for progress
Angie G. –
These activities helped my students improve their spelling.
Laurie D. –
A great place to start with adding dictation. The kids enjoyed using it.
Apples Poms Gloss –
Great resource for structured dictation practice across multiple grade levels. My students stayed engaged and improved their spelling and encoding skills.
Karen C. –
This was a great way for students to practice spelling and writing sentences. Short and sweet, but covers a lot.
Laura Quinonez –
Thank you for sharing this bundle. I am always looking for different ways to incorporate dictation during the week. Very creative and easy to use.
Sari S. –
Love using this resource with my students in small groups or 1:1. I could easily find areas to reinforce and also use as an exit tool. Data gathering and progress monitoring is a cinch with your resource! Thank you for making my life super easy as a LS teacher with this one resource!
Brandy Bridges –
This resource was exactly what I needed for my first-grade students. It’s clear, easy to use, and saved me time with planning. My students were engaged, and the visuals/instructions were very helpful. Definitely a great addition to my teaching toolkit — thank you
Stacie Woodman –
This is a great resource for beginning writers. We use it every day and I can already see improvement with first grade writing.
Wheel of Wonders –
Thank you so much for sharing this awesome resource!
Kayla W. –
This had everything I needed to quickly implement dictation in my multi-grade classroom.
Jessica R. –
This is a great resource that allows me to pull appropriate word lists to accompany my small group lesson.
Maria L. –
This unit is packet with lessons. Grate for interactive note-booking.
Literacy with Laura Leigh –
This bundle was helpful for reinforcing phonics through dictation. It gave me a good starting point and was easy to integrate into lessons.
Maigen S. –
A super helpful resource that I regularly use in my classroom.
Alycia D. –
This was a useful resource, thanks for creating it!
Melissa V. –
This is really helpful and easy to implement, thanks!
Elizabeth D. –
This product helped my sons writing so much!!! I plan to use this with him in firat and second grade as well!
Mignon C. –
My students have shown great improvement in their spelling and listening skills since we started using these dictations. The quality of the content is excellent, and I appreciate the time and effort the creator put into making this resource. Highly recommend for any teacher looking to enhance their language lessons!