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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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Hanh P. –
My students loved this! They had fun writing with a purpose.
jessica jenkins –
My students struggle with writing. This is a great resource to help them become more comfortable with their spelling and writing.
Katie H. –
This has been a great resource! I use it with my K-3rd resource students!
Jenn C. –
So helpful to have this all done and ready to print. Takes a lot of the work out of lesson planning!
lori D. –
Love having this to had to my lessons. The students do well with this activity.
Reaching for Peaks –
MEGA is a great adjective to create this very complete and well-designed product. If sentence dictation is a skill that you work on with your students, then you need this product. This product is well worth the month. If you are on the fence, then I highly suggest you buy this product. Thanks for creating this resource.
Dana H. –
Great resource! I used them in small group and for our data notebooks!
Lori W. –
Dictation is something that I wanted to build into my classroom and this resource is very detailed and helpful.
Kelsey S. –
Great resource for helping me plan lessons throughout the year and I love that it makes everything so easy.
victoria B. –
I love this resource! Saves hours of planning! Easy to add to daily routines!
Janet S. –
Great resource that makes dictation / writing practice easy to happen. I can pick it up and be consisitent with this important practice skill for my students.
Jaimi Sowby –
This may be one of the best purchases I have made! This has my whole year of dictation done and ready to go. Such an amazing and useful resource. Thank you!
Sharon Burns –
A wonderful addition to my SoR resources. A real timesaver.
Dana Sudhoff –
This is a great resource to use and was just what I was looking for. Thanks!
Rebecca T. –
Great resource to use with students in interventions!
Building a Foundation –
Thank you for creating this set! I have found it to be very helpful to have additional options for dictation practice!
LeeAnne K. –
We have daily writing practice on whiteboards and this resource has been a lifesaver! It is fantastic! I have the bundle with K-2 sets and I can use them in small groups as well to help challenge some of my stronger writers.
Melissa J. –
This resource is great is you need some guidance for dictation.
Shelly S. –
This is great for dictation in small groups. It is helpful to have the 3 different levels.
Christine H. –
This is perfect for my young students at all levels. Thanks!