Identify instructional practices and resources to support your understanding of how the Skills units are scaffolded.
The program explicitly teaches letter-sound correspondences with a focus on sounds or phonemes. It begins by teaching the most common or least ambiguous spelling for a sound (Basic Code Spelling), then later teaches spelling alternatives for sounds that can be spelled several different ways. The system is kept simple at first in the form of a gradual release. Complexity is then added, bit by bit, as students gain confidence and automatize their reading and writing skills.
See Appendix B: Grade 1 Scope and Sequence for Skills throughout the year.
Additional Resources:
A resource to view the Skills strand routines are located within the Professional Learning section of learning.amplify.com.
Within the Professional Learning section, the Routines can be accessed for your grade level. Below is an example from the K-2 Skills Strand Routines and Look Fors.
