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Rhett's Observations, Reflections and Research at Burton's School
General Practices
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Notice: Lesson Plans are currently kept in Google Documents only.

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1 | At School | |
2 | Brown Bears | |
3 | Cookie Man | |
4 | Hungry Monster | |
5 | Bingo | |
6 | Two Mice | |
7 | Bad Witch | |
8 | Red Hen | |
9 | Three Pigs | |
10 | Goat Family |
Communicative Functions
- More about our Language Functions
- to interact through senses
- to listen and use instructional language
- to greet, take leave and call upon
- to introduce self and others
- to name and identify topical words
- to talk about possessions
- to express emotions
- to express likes
- to express wants
- to express what you have
- to ask/answer questions
- to count and use numbers
- to reason
Four Skills
Listening and Speaking
- I can hear, produce and blend phonemes into words.
- I can identify and name key topic words.
- I can listen, say and remember phrases.
- I can listen and sing parts of songs.
- I can use words and patterns during interactions.
- I can predict basic language patterns through interleaved interactions and context.
- I can memorize and use language functions.
- I can build meaning by combining phrases.
Reading and Writing
- I can identify and name key topic words.
- I can say/read and remember phrases.
- I can access the meaning of phrases from activities and process
- I can recognize graphemes and blend into decodable CVC words.
- I can recognize high frequency and tricky words from the L1 list.
- I can read, understand and roughly translate pattern functions into the L1.
- I can build meaning by combining phrases
Content
Words & Patterns

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Songs
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Interactions ( Do )
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Read
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Phonics
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Exercises
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Story Plays
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Writing
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These are for eye to image, sound to ear, and ear to tongue practice.
Some students will pick up on the advanced decoding skills before others.
- school, happy, book, coloring, read, play, game
- fish, bear, brown, look, hungry, candy, walking
- cookie, scared, eat, sliding, mouse, jump, fast, slow, swim
- pretty, girl, very, where, potatoes
- boy, Sue, sister, white, goodbye
- squeak, mice, birthday, for, under, tree, by, thank, these
- crying, young, make,
- fly, down, bread, purple, eating, play
- Fred, because, hairs, head, second, third, shirt, house, climbing, now, will
- goat, her, doe, fur, small, blue, flowers, front, monster, waiting, away, those