Phonological Knowledge: Scaffolding Learning From 1.5

• Indicators of Progress
• Teaching Strategies

Indicators of Progress

• Students segment one-syllable spoken words of up to four sounds into separate sounds.
• Students blend strings of up to four sounds automatically into words, and strings of up to five sounds into words by investing attention.
• Students delete the first sound from one-syllable spoken words.

Teaching Strategies

Before, During and After Reading

Teachers may engage students in the following activities to move them from this indicator of progress to the next:

• Learning and teaching sequences for reading Fiction and Non-fiction texts – VELS level 1
• Reading Training Video 2: Using the indicators of progress for differentiated teaching