Level 4 (Mid–End Year 1 Skills)
The Amazon Rainforest
Level 4—Activity Selection Screen, first half
Level 4—Activity Selection Screen, second half
Area
Activity
Warm-up
Designed to increase automatic recognition of beginning consonant
sounds and letters.
Ending Sounds
Phonological
Awareness
Isolate ending consonant sounds in spoken words and match lettersound correspondences for ending sounds.
Units: 8
Short Vowel Sounds
Phonics
Associate the short vowel sounds with letters for the five major
vowels.
Units: 14
Beginning Sounds & Letters
Phonics
Demonstrate knowledge of letter-sound correspondences for
beginning consonant sounds in words.
Units: 13
Combining Adjectives
Vocabulary
Demonstrate understanding of two descriptors as they relate to a
noun.
Units: 6
Sequencing Stories 1
Comprehension
Demonstrate understanding of the sequence of events in a story as
shown through pictures.
Units: 20
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COMPREHENSIONAWARENESS
PHONOLOGICAL
Level 4 (Mid–End Year 1 Skills)
Ending Sounds
The goal of this activity is for students to isolate ending consonant sounds in spoken
words and to match letters to these ending sounds. Students choose pictures that match
the ending sound presented and choose ending consonant letters to complete words.
Recognition Task
Three pictures display. The student hears the targeted ending
sound and the names of the pictures. The student selects the
picture that ends in the targeted sound.
Word Completion Task
A partial CVC word displays with three letters underneath.
The student hears the word and then selects the letter that
completes the word.
Unit 1 Three phonemes and same initial phoneme
(e.g., web, win, wet)
★ Unit 5 Complete the word with b, m, t
Unit 2 Three phonemes and no similarities
(e.g., lake, fuzz, pan)
Unit 6 Complete the word with x, d, n
Unit 7 Complete the word with s, p, g
Unit 8 Complete the word with ss, ll, ff, zz
Unit 3 Four phonemes with beginning blends and no similarities (e.g., plane, cloud, scale)
Unit 4 Four or five phonemes with ending blends and no similarities (e.g., sank, toast, pond)
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PHONICS
Level 4 (Mid–End Year 1 Skills)
Beginning Sounds & Letters
The goal of this activity is for students to build
their knowledge of letter-sound correspondences
for beginning consonant sounds in words.
Students choose the letter that completes the
spoken word.
Task Description
A partial word displays above three or four letters. The student hears the word and
selects the letter that completes the word.
Unit 1 m, s, d
Unit 2 m, s, t, b
Unit 3 d, f, y, c
Unit 4 r, p, l, k
Unit 5 g, h, b, w
Unit 6 qu, z, v, j
Unit 7 n, d, f, s
★ Unit 8 s, p, g, f
Unit 9 m, n, k, g
Unit 10 t, d, f, v
Unit 11 b, p, s, z
Unit 12 qu, c, d, p
Unit 13 g, z, n, d (Standard and Practice Steps use nonsense words, e.g., gam, zil, nog, duf)
Unit 14 m, s, t, b (Standard and Practice Steps use nonsense words, e.g., mip, sec, taz, biv)
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COMPREHENSION
PHONICS
Level 4 (Mid–End Year 1 Skills)
Short Vowel Sounds
The goal of this activity is for students to build their knowledge of letter-sound
correspondences for the five major vowels. Through this activity, students choose
the picture that begins with a presented vowel letter and choose the vowel letter that
matches the beginning sound of the picture.
Letter to Picture Matching Task
The short vowel is introduced in a letter morph with the key
word. Two pictures display above a vowel. The student hears
the names of the pictures and selects the picture that begins
with the targeted short vowel sound.
Unit 1 short a (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 2 short i (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 3 short a, i (Picture to Letter Matching)
Unit 4 short a, i (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 5 short o (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 6 short a, i, o (Picture to Letter Matching)
Unit 7 short a, i, o (Picture to Letter Matching)
Picture to Letter Matching Task
Two vowels display above a picture. The student hears the
name of the picture and then selects the vowel that matches
the beginning sound of the picture
★ Unit 8 short o (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 9 short a, i, o, u (Picture to Letter Matching)
Unit 10 short a, i, o, u (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 11 short e (Letter to Picture Matching)
Unit 12 short a, i, e, o, u (Picture to Letter Matching)
Unit 13 short a, i, e, o, u (Letter to Picture Matching)
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VOCABULARY
Level 4 (Mid–End Year 1 Skills)
Combining Adjectives
The goal of this activity is for students to build
their understanding of descriptors as they relate to
nouns. Students choose a picture that matches a
dictated description that contains two adjectives.
Task
An object inside the basket is described with two adjectives. Three pictures display and the student selects the picture that is best
described by the descriptors.
Unit 1 heavy/gray, juicy/round, soft/white, colorful/living, muddy/big
Unit 2 enormous/blue, squishy/rectangular, prickly/green, sticky/brown, bright/red
Unit 3 cracked/flat, bouncy/round, sleepy/young, shiny/black, curly/brown
★ Unit 4 fragile/clean, slimy/slow, noisy/huge, new/fancy, soaked/sad
Unit 5 crowded/noisy, young/dirty, sparkling/round, slippery/cold, plain/purple
Unit 6 circular/tiny, striped/soft, healthy/smooth, dusty/brown, slim/tall
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COMPREHENSION
Level 4 (Mid–End Year 1 Skills)
Sequencing Stories 1
The goal of this activity is for students to build
their understanding of narrative structure and
story sequence as shown through pictures.
Students listen to spoken stories and sequence
pictures to match the events of the story.
Task
The student hears an entire story and then must put images of the story in sequential order.
Unit 1 Maya and Her Dad
Unit 2 Chan and the Snow Day
Unit 3 Kelly’s Chores on the Farm
Unit 4 Diego and His Cat
Unit 5 Sara and Jose at the Beach
Unit 6 Ali and Becky at the Circus
Unit 7 Abdul and Tim
Unit 8 Abe and His Parrot
Unit 9 Gia and the Bumblebee
Unit 10 Rosa Goes Camping
★ Unit 11 Steve and His Bike
Unit 12 Justin and Sam
Unit 13 Manny and His Dog
Unit 14 The Family Garden
Unit 15 Bo and Missy at the Fair
Unit 16 Bella’s Birthday
Unit 17 Three Brothers at Home
Unit 18 The Petting Zoo
Unit 19 Amil and His Dog
Unit 20 Fishing with Grandpa
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