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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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Emily Smith –
A fantastic resource! It’s well-designed, easy to implement, and truly supports student learning. Thoughtful and engaging—highly recommend!
Layne S. –
Excellent hands on resource! The students love it! Thank you!
Doris C. –
Great resource for small group, tutorials
Ashley Baker –
I use this resource during reading group time. We warm up with a dictation word each day, and the end of the week we use a dictation sentence.
Tammy A. –
This was a great resource! Thank you so much! I loved it.
Lisa Williams –
This is a great resource to use when tutoring. It allows me to be able to fill in the gaps and work on any skills my students need.
Sydney K. –
This has really helped with my weekly progress monitoring with my kids. This is a fantastic resource and very helpful. Thank you so much for this resource!
Michelle W. –
Great resource. My students were very engaged. Thankyou
Melissa E. –
Thanks so much for all of the work you put into this resource! It really helped my students practice their learning because they were engaged with the material.
Sharp Pencils Read Apples –
I like using this in my reading small group to check in on student progress with our target phonics skills.
Madison Dingess –
Great resource to practice listening and spelling!
Hannah W. –
This has been a helpful resource for me. I use it weekly to help my students write sentences using the phonics concepts that we are learning.
Angela B. –
This is the perfect resource to incorporate dictation into my reading groups. Short and quick, and my students have fun with it.
Nicole P. –
I use this with my Title reading students; it is a great resource to help them practice decoding.
Delores L. –
This resource makes dictation easy because the activities are already laid out and ready to use.
LAURA M. –
Simple, straightforward tool to develop auditory processing, short-term memory, phonics skill development and spelling. Student growth is evident and accessible using this tool. It was easily incorporated into our weekly routine.
Hope M. –
Perfect resource, exactly what I was looking for. Thank you!
Alexandra Jaworska –
My 2nd-grade students loved this resource! Thank you!
Nicole R. –
I am a special education teacher and finding decent resources to assess students is a challenge. This product allows me the opportunity to add writing into a lesson while formatively assessing students knowledge base. So helpful.
Patricia S. –
I really like this for dictation! Quick and easy right at your fingertips! Thank you!