First Grade Phonics Unit 3 LONG VOWELS | CVCe Words + Open and Closed Syllables

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Are you looking for a hands-on first grade phonics curriculum for your whole group instruction? The Empowering Little Readers 1st Grade Phonics Curriculum has everything you need to teach meaningful phonemic awareness and phonics lessons in first grade.

Unit 3 Long Vowels focuses on:

• CVCe words
• open and closed syllables
• Short and long vowel sounds
• Hard and soft c and g
• V/CV and VC/V syllable division
• Multisyllable words

This unit contains everything you need to teach decoding, encoding, and using the phonics skills in context.

⭐SAVE BIG with the First Grade Phonics Curriculum for the Year!

Science of Reading aligned whole group phonics instruction! The First Grade Phonics Curriculum was designed with best practices from the Science of Reading in mind. The lessons are systematic and hands-on as they build through the first grade phonics scope and sequence.

First Grade Phonics Long Vowels unit includes 6 weeks of instruction.

1. Open and Closed Syllables
2. CVCe Long Vowel a
3. CVCe Long Vowel i
4. Hard and Soft c and g
5. CVCe Long Vowels O and U
6. Multisyllable words with VCe syllables; Suffix -ed and -ing with CVCe words

Weekly phonemic awareness instruction:

1. Isolating beginning sounds
2. Manipulating beginning sounds
3. Isolating ending sounds
4. Manipulating ending sounds
5. Isolating vowel sounds
6. Manipulating vowel sounds

The First Grade Phonics Unit 3 includes daily lessons with:

• Phonics warm ups
• Phonemic awareness lessons
• Teacher-led phonics lessons
• Student practice
• Independent phonics worksheets
• Optional phonics partner games for literacy centers

In this CVC3 words unit you get:

• 1st grade phonics lesson plans
• 1st grade phonics worksheets
• Word building folder
• Weekly partner decodable readers
• Weekly phonics partner games for literacy centers

✔️What is this curriculum? The First Grade Phonics Curriculum was designed with whole group phonics in mind. This will be your tier 1 phonics instruction meant to teach every student every day.

✖️This curriculum is NOT meant for small groups phonics instruction. For that, I would highly recommend the Science of Reading Guided Curriculum.

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

Do you have a free week I can try out? Yes! Try out Unit 1 Week 1 for FREE here.

Can I use the First Grade Phonics Curriculum in a homeschool setting? Yes, absolutely! These phonics lessons will work well in both a classroom and a homeschool setting. For any partner activities, you can complete the game or reader with your child.

Can I use the First Grade Phonics Curriculum in a grade other than 1st grade? Yes, you can, but please note that this curriculum was designed specifically with first grade skills in mind so you will want to look closely at the scope and sequence provided to see if it would be a good fit for you.

You can also find other grade level phonics curriculums here:

• Kindergarten Phonics Curriculum
• Preschool and Pre-K Phonics Curriculum

Do you offer a small group phonics curriculum for 1st grade? Yes! If you prefer to teach your phonics in small groups, or if you want to use this curriculum for whole group instruction but teach differentiated small reading groups, I highly suggest the Science of Reading Guided Curriculum.

Does this 1st grade phonics curriculum align with the Science of Reading? Yes! This curriculum was designed with best practices from SOR in mind. Each week builds through a systematic scope and sequence as students build their foundational skills.

Does this curriculum offer decodable readers? Each week includes partner decodable readers to practice the skills. These are one page decodable passages meant to be read with a partner for support. This curriculum does not include decodable books; you will want the the Science of Reading Guided Curriculum for that.