The Startup Reading Short Vowels Course is the starting point to address the biggest potential stumbling block in learning to read: identifying vowel sounds. This workbook focuses on short vowel sounds in words.

Students will gain the phonological awareness needed to read short vowel words, sentences, and short passages that build fluency and comprehension. The objective is for students to develop their decoding and reading skills, providing a solid foundation in literacy. Each reading skill is introduced and reinforced through a series of fun, interactive activities.

Throughout the Startup Reading Short Vowels Course, students apply the reading strategy to identify the short vowels with an accent mark. Students then combine the letter sounds with the short sound of the vowel to readin the word. Examples of words with short vowel sounds are cat, ten, kit, hop, and cub.

Students continue to use this strategy as they read short stories with decodable and grade-level sight words.

This course provides a video lesson for each page in the workbook. A reading coach session will follow the lesson to verify the student’s skill acquisition and ability to appy the lesson skills to read the exercises.

 

Course Curriculum

Lesson 1 Ann waves a fan in the hot sun
Page 1, Letter Names C2, 1.01.1 00:01:00
Page 4, Circle the letter that makes the beginning sound – C2, 1.01.2 00:12:00
Page 2, Consonant Sounds – C2 00:05:00
Page 5, Beginning Sounds: Independent Practice – B2, 1.02.2 00:10:00
Page 2, Consonant Sounds – C2 00:05:00
Page 6, The Sounds of the Letters – C2, 1.03.2 00:10:00
Page 3 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective -C2 1.04.1 00:07:00
Page 7,Color the Short Vowels – C2, 1.04.2 00:08:00
Page 10 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective -C2 1.05.1 FREE 00:13:00
1.05.2 Say, Listen, and Circle: pin/pan -B2 Page 12 FREE 00:07:00
1.06.1 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – Page 11 00:13:00
Page 13, Say, Listen, and Circle, B3, 1.06.2 00:07:00
1.07.1 Read and Connect – Page 14 00:16:00
Page 15, Read a Short Story about Ann – B3, 1.08.1 FREE 00:13:00
1.08.2 Sight Word Alert! Color the Sight Words – Page 16 00:06:00
1.09.1 Warm-up: The Reading Code – Page 3 00:07:00
1.09.2 Finish the Words – Page 17 00:11:00
1.10.1 Warm-up: Consonant Sounds – Page 2 00:05:00
1.10.2 Cut, Match, Glue! – Page 18 SV 00:06:00
1.11.1 Warm-up: The Reading Code – Page 3 00:07:00
1.11.2 Read and Draw – Page 19 00:06:00
1.12.1 Identify the Drawing – Page 20 00:03:00
1.12.2 Write a Simple Sentence: Noun and Verb – Page 21 00:06:00
Lesson 2: Tim and his dad go to a ball game
2.01.1 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective, i as in igloo – B2 Page 24 00:17:00
Page 26, Say, Listen, and Circle: tap/top – B3, 2.01.2 00:09:00
2.02.1 Page 25, Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – B3 00:21:00
2.02.2 Say, Listen, and Circle: rod/red – Page 27 00:10:00
2.03.1 Read and Connect with Near – Page 28 00:24:00
Page 29 Sentences 1-2, Read a Short Story 2.04.2 00:13:00
Page 29 Sentences 1-2, Read a Short Story 2.04.2 00:13:00
2.05.1 Read a Short Story: Sentences 3-5, Page 29 00:11:00
2.05.2 Sight Word Alert! Color the sight words – Page 30 00:09:00
Page 3, Review: The Reading Code – 2.06.1 00:07:00
Page 31, Finish the Words – B3, 2.06.2 00:11:00
Page 32, Cut, Match, and Glue! – B3, 2.07.1 00:09:00
2.08.1 Warm-up: The Reading Code – page 3 00:07:00
Page 33 Read and Draw – 2.08.2 00:08:00
2.09.1 Read and Identify the Drawing – page 34 00:06:00
2.09.2 Write a Simple Sentence – page 35 00:08:00
Lesson 3: The bug and the slug are pals.
Page 38, Learn to Be a Vowel Detective – B3, 3.01.1 00:22:00
3.01.2 Say, Listen, and Circle: tub/cub – Page 40 00:08:00
Page 39 Learn to Be a Vowel Detective B4 3.02.1 00:14:00
Page 41, Say, Listen, and Circle: rod/red – B2, 3.02.2 00:10:00
Page 36, Read and Connect – B2, 3.05.1 FREE 00:14:00
Page 42, Read and Connect, Part 1 – B3, 3.03.1 00:14:00
3.03.2 Read and Connect, Part 2 – Page 42 00:12:00
3.04.1 Read, Match and Discover – Page 43 00:18:00
3.04.2 Sight Word Alert! Color the sight words – Page 44 00:06:00
Page 3, Warm-up: The Reading Code – B, 3.05.1 00:07:00
3.05.2 Finish the Words – page 45 00:10:00
3.06.1 Cut, March, Glue! – Page 46 00:10:00
3.07.1 Warm-up: The Reading Code – Page 3 00:07:00
3.07.2 Read and Draw – Page 47 00:08:00
3.08.1 Identify the Drawing: Super Challenge Words! – Page 48 00:06:00
Page 49, Write a Simple Sentence – B3, 3.08.2 00:09:00
Level 2 Checkpoint Assessment 03:00:00
Lesson 4: Pat has a lot fo fun with his cat
4.01.1 Learn to Be a Short Vowel Detective- page 52 00:15:00
Short Vowels : Lesson Plan 31 – Read, Match, and Discover 00:17:00
4.02.2 Sight Word Alert! Color the sight words – page 54 00:05:00
Page 3, Review: The Reading Code – 4.03.1 00:07:00
4.03.2 Finish the Words – page 55 00:13:00
4.04.1 Warm-up: Consonant Sounds – Page 2 00:05:00
4.04.2 Connect the Letters – page 56 00:10:00
4.05.1 Warm-up: Consonant Sounds – page 2 00:05:00
4.05.2 Rhyming Words – page 57 00:08:00
4.06.1 Identify the Drawing: Super Challenge Words! – page 58 00:08:00
4.06.2 Write a Simple Sentence: Noun and Verb – page 59 00:09:00
Lesson 5: Using Short Vowel Reading Skills
5.01.1 Short Vowel Review,part 1 – Page 62 00:09:00
5.01.2 Short Vowel Review,part 2 – Page 62 00:09:00
5.02.1 Warm-up: Consonant Sounds – Page 2 00:05:00
5.02.1 Connect the Letters – Page 63 00:11:00
5.03.1 Warm-up: The Reading Code – Page 3 00:07:00
5.03.2 Short Vowel Sound – Page 64 00:08:00
5.04.2 Write a Simple Sentence: Noun and Verb – Page 66 00:09:00
5.04.1 Identify the Drawing – Page 65 00:05:00
Level 2 Progress Assessment 03:00:00

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