The Sentence Strand - 5 Scripted Phonological Awareness Lessons

Five fully scripted lessons that continue directly from the free lesson. If the free lesson worked at your table, this is what comes next. Lesson 1 taught your child what a single word is. These five take the next step together: what a sentence is, how to break one into its separate words, how to build one back up, how to take a word away, and how to swap one word for another. That sequence is not arbitrary. Recognising, segmenting, joining, deleting, and substituting are the five operations everything later in reading is built on - and here your child performs them on whole words, the largest and friendliest unit, long before anyone asks them to do it with individual sounds. WHAT YOU GET - Lesson 2: What Is a Sentence? - Lesson 3: Segmenting a Sentence - Lesson 4: Joining Words to Make a Sentence - Lesson 5: Deleting a Word from a Sentence - Lesson 6: Substituting a Word in a Sentence - Learning Reminder Card 2 (Sentences) - opens in any browser - The Push-Up Boxes counter board these lessons use - A one-page start-here guide HOW IT WORKS Every word you should say is written in bold. Every answer to listen for is written right after it. Each lesson opens with a one-page rationale written for you, not your child, so you understand why the step matters before you teach it. 15-25 minutes each, nothing to prepare, nothing to print. ONE HONEST EXPECTATION This is oral work. No letters yet, on purpose. Sounds come before symbols - that is the science-of-reading order, and it is the step struggling readers usually got rushed past. WHAT COMES AFTER These are lessons 2 through 6 of SoundSenses, a 37-lesson program that carries the same method through rhyme, syllables, blending, segmenting, and sound manipulation. Your $7 comes off the price if you continue. Created by BrainSenses Learning - Developed by a Certified Academic Language Therapist (CALT . LDT . M.Ed.)