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Imagine It PowerPoint Presentations for Grade 1
These documents are for the Getting Started Unit. (w1d4 means this activity goes along with week 1 day 4 in the teacher manual.)
Each day I bring up the letter page for the day on the projector and have students brainstorm words as a class as I type the words on the page. I print out the page of student generated words. A student is chosen to illustrate the sentence written at the top. I bind the list of words into a classroom dictionary.
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These are the rest of the Imagine It PowerPoint Presentations for first grade. They include sound spelling and sight word practice for each unit, the morning message, Daily Oral Language, some activities that could be included from the lesson, blending, vocabulary, and some grammar activities.
Play the slideshow in Powerpoint to see the animations! Each of the blending slides have several animations. When the word first appears, we read the word as a class (sound by sound through unit 3 and then in unit 4 beginning to focus on the vowel and having the students blend in their heads to produce the word on cue). The second animation for each word is when I call on individual students or groups to read the word. Then I use my highlighting pen tool on my interactive board to have students highlight a word with a particular sound or that fits a given clue or sentence. This gives students 3 opportunities to decode the word in one quick activity.
Play the slideshow in Powerpoint to see the animations! Each of the blending slides have several animations. When the word first appears, we read the word as a class (sound by sound through unit 3 and then in unit 4 beginning to focus on the vowel and having the students blend in their heads to produce the word on cue). The second animation for each word is when I call on individual students or groups to read the word. Then I use my highlighting pen tool on my interactive board to have students highlight a word with a particular sound or that fits a given clue or sentence. This gives students 3 opportunities to decode the word in one quick activity.
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In Units 8, 9, and 10 the regular 5 day lesson is condensed into 3 days in order to get through the program by the end of the year. These powerpoints reflect that change. The 3 day outline for each unit is also included.
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Lesson maps list for each day what to include on template instruction, the morning message, blending, and which pages to cover in comprehension for a 3 day cycle.
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UNIT 8
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UNIT 9
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UNIT 10
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Imagine It Performance Assessments
My team found that the Imagine It tests at the end of each set of five lessons was just not enough to really determine what students know, so these assessments were created for each unit. It tests the new material introduced in the unit. The first few units have a phonemic awareness assessment piece. Getting Started has an alphabet recognition assessment. All of the units assess sound spellings, decodable words, sight words, and an oral reading passage taken from one of the decodable books in the unit I give both a fluency and accuracy grade for the oral reading passage. Each of the sections of the performance assessment are included on the report card as separate tests along with one grade for the entire unit of Imagine It tests. The assessments are given one on one. To facilitate this, we include one testing day at the end of each unit to complete the assessment. I give the students a packet to complete of independent work that supports what we have learned (including easy to difficult to differentiate for all students) while I pull students to test for the whole group hour. Then the remaining students I'm not able to pull during this block are pulled during any other time I can find. There are no assessments for Units 8-10 since at that point they are a review of what was already taught.
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Imagine It Game Cards
Each set of game cards contains the words practiced throughout the unit in the blending section of Imagine It (the chalkboard section). I have enough sets of cards for students to play in pairs or groups of 3 during small group time. The game card directions file gives directions as well as several variations on play.
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