Free-Reading.net, K-1
http://www.free-reading.net
FreeReading is an open-source instructional program that helps educators teach early literacy. Because it is open-source, it represents the collective wisdom of a wide community of teachers and researchers. The site features a complete set of activities for a typical forty-week core program. Users can also just access specific activities and downloads.
The FreeReading 40-week scope and sequence of activities includes the following categories:
- Phonological Awareness: Students learn to blend and segment the sounds in spoken words.
- Letter Sounds: Students learn to say the most common sounds for printed letters.
- Letter Writing: Students learn the correct way to write letters.
- Sounding Out: Students learn to produce and blend the letter-sound patterns in written words. For the first time, they read.
- Word-Form Recognition: Students learn to read written words without sounding them out. (Some educators refer to these words as “sight words.”)
- Irregular Words: Students learn to read high-frequency irregular words such as the and was by sight.
- Reading Connected Text: Students learn to read their first stories.
- Letter Combinations: Students learn to say the most common sounds for letter combinations such as sh and oa.
- Irregular Words II: Students learn more high-frequency irregular words to read by sight.
- Advanced Phonics: Students learn to read words with features such as inflected endings, silent letters, and multiple syllables.
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