Action Factor's
Sing Your Way Through Phonics
Scope & Sequence
Sing Your Way Through Phonics
Ready to Read! Combo
Song |
Skill |
Objective |
Examples |
Rhyme in Time |
Rhyming words |
Children will demonstrate recognition of rhyming words in sentences, poems, and songs | bear, wear, hair, care goose, loose, moose, juice |
Tongue Tangle |
Alliteration |
Children will demonstrate recognition of alliterative words in sentences, poems, and songs. | Peter Piper picked a peck of prickly pickled peppers. |
Words in My Pocket |
Consonant Discrimination |
Children will learn to discriminate among same and different initial consonant sounds. | book, dog, baby girl, grass, tree, goat |
Guess What I Am Hiding |
Segmenting and Blending |
Children will learn to a) segment words between onset and rime and b) blend onset and rime into words. | A-E-I-O-U-(Y) a-e-i-o-u-(y) |
Who Knows the Letter? |
Letter/Sound Correspondence |
Children will demonstrate recognition of letter/sound matching when hearing words in sentences, poems, and songs. | boy, ball = Bb dog, dish = Dd jelly, jam = Jj kitten, kit = Kk |
Sing Your Way Through Phonics
Volume 1 Combo
Song |
Skill |
Objective |
Examples |
Alphabet Letters |
Upper-Case Letter Identification |
Children will learn to remember the shapes of the capital letters based on their similarities to familiar forms and objects. | A is like a teepee. M is like two mountain tops. |
Little Partners |
Lower-Case Letter Identification |
Children will learn to distinguish the set of lower-case letters that look very different from their capital letter counterparts. | Capital B and lower-case b. Capital R and lower case r. |
What’s That Sound? |
Consonant Letter/Sound Correspondence |
Children will practice vocalizing the sounds associated with the consonant letters. | /b/ sound** /m/ sound |
Name Those Vowels |
Vowel Identification |
Children will practice naming the vowels until this knowledge is automatic. | A-E-I-O-U-(Y) a-e-i-o-u-(y) |
Oh, Do You Know? |
Vowel Letter/Sound Correspondence |
Children will practice vocalizing the sounds of the short and long vowels. | Short a = /ă/ Short e = /ĕ/ |
Spelling Families |
Short Vowel Spelling Patterns |
Children will learn to recognize short vowel spelling patterns and word families. | cat, bat, rat big, dig, pig |
Two Little Letters |
Consonant Digraph Letter/Sound Correspondence |
Children will learn to recognize consonant digraphs c-h, s-h, t-h, p-h, k-n, and g-n in initial, medial, and final positions. | they, mother, both she, fishing, push |
Talking and Walking |
Long Vowel + Silent Vowel |
Children will practice decoding words that follow the long vowel/silent vowel rule. | rain, read feed, boat |
Silent E |
Long Vowel + Consonant + Silent e |
Children will hear how sounds change when a silent e is added to words. | rid, ride tap, tape |
Outlaws |
Irregular Spelling Patterns |
Children will learn to recognize sets of irregular spelling patterns. | bread, head, dead ought, bought, thought |
| **Note that /b/ is shorthand for “the sound of the letter b.” |
Sing Your Way Through Phonics
Volume 2 Combo
Song |
Skill |
Objective |
Examples |
Spelling Choices |
Long Vowel Spelling Patterns |
Children will become familiar with the various ways to spell each long vowel sound. | Long a: rain, pay, fame Long o: no, hole, boat, row |
Soft C |
Soft c Rule |
Children will learn to recognize the spelling patterns of unvoiced c within familiar words. | mice, circle, fancy, Lance, Cindy, Lucy |
Bossy R |
R-Controlled Vowel Spelling Patterns |
Children will learn how the letter r changes the sound of each vowel. | car, barn, farm purple, burn, turkey |
Cool Vowels |
Vowel Digraph Spelling Patterns |
Children will learn the spelling patterns and sounds associated with o-o, a-w, and a-u. | book, fool autumn, raw |
The Right Diphthong |
Diphthong Spelling Patterns |
Children will learn the spelling patterns and sounds associated with o-u, o-w, o-i and o-y. | found, cow oil, toy |
Syllables |
Syllabication |
Children will how to recognize the number of syllables in words containing up to five syllables. | cat, chicken, butterfly caterpillar, hippopotamus |
Better Double That Letter |
Consonant Doubling Before Suffix |
Children will learn which consonants need to be doubled before i-n-g, e-r, or e-s-t. | hug, hugging run, runner sad, saddest |
I Before E |
Rules for i-e and e-i patterns |
Children will practice spelling words that follow the i-e and e-i rule. | friend, believe ceiling, eight |
Contraction Action |
Contraction Formation |
Children will learn and apply the rules for forming contractions. | did + not = didn’t she + would = she’d |
More Than One |
Rule for e-s patterns |
Children will learn when e-s and other letter changes are needed to create plurals or verb agreement. | kisses, churches, wishes, foxes, buzzes leaf, leaves, knife, knives |
Sing Your Way Through Phonics
Volume 3 Combo
Song |
Skill |
Objective |
Examples |
Who Knows? |
w-h Patterns |
Children will practice spelling patterns for commonly used w-h words. | which, what, when, where, who, whom, whose, why |
Belongings |
Possessives |
Children will learn the spelling rules for possessive nouns. | John’s house boys’ jackets |
There Is No K in Christmas |
Alternate sound of c-h |
Children will learn to recognize and spell words in which c-h sounds like /k/. | stomach, chorus chemical, echo |
When S is Sweet as Sugar |
s Variants |
Children will learn alternate pronunciations for the letter s. | sure, measure raisin, tissue |
Why Does Y? |
Replacing y with i |
Children will learn when to replace y with i to form plurals, verb agreement, or comparatives. | baby, babies hurry, hurries, sticky, stickier |
Hats & Boots |
Roots and Affixes |
Children will learn spellings and meanings of common prefixes and suffixes. | nicely, quickly, slowly rewrite, rewind, replay |
Drop It! |
Dropping e before i-n-g |
Children will learn to omit silent e before adding the suffix i-n-g. | face, facing choose, choosing |
Same But Different |
Homophones |
Children will learn different spellings for words that sound the same. | right, write hear, here |
Lonely Consonants |
Final Consonant Spelling Patterns |
Children learn that c, k, f, l, and s usually require partner consonants at the end of one-vowel words. | quick, stiff full, miss |
Extension Tension |
t-i-o-n Variants |
Children will learn variant spellings for suffixes that have the /shun/ sound. | vacation, expression magician, mansion |