The Startup Reading Expanded Vowel Teams Workbook, Course 8, is designed as a Language Arts curriculum that provides reading strategies for a solid foundation in literacy. The objective is for students to learn and apply reading, comprehension, and spelling strategies to read higher-level passages.

In particular, this workbook guides students toward continued mastery of the following strategies:

1) Vowel Teams – Students will learn and apply complex vowel teams. Identifying a Vowel Team in a word is an essential skill for students to develop their knowledge of irregular vowel patterns and read more complex words.

Course Curriculum

Lesson 1 : The Fisherman’s Dance
Page 14, Vowel Teams: “wa”, “au”, “cial” and “tial” 1.01 00:00:00
Page 14 – Part 1 of 3, Vowel Team: “wa” as in “waterfall” B7 1.01.1 00:00:00
1.01.2 Vowel Vowel Team: “au” as in astronaut – Page 14 Part 1 of 2 00:00:00
1.01.3 Vowel Team: “cial” and “tial” as in glacial – Page 14 Part 1 of 3 00:00:00
Page 15, The Four Essential Syllable Strategies – B7, 1.02.1 00:00:00
1.03.1 High Frequency Words – Page 16 – Part 1 00:00:00
1.03.2 High Frequency Words – Page 16 – Part 2 00:00:00
1.04.1 The Fisherman’s Dance – Page 17 00:00:00
1.05.1 Practice for Comprehension- Page 18 00:00:00
1.06.1 Written Response – Page 19 00:00:00
Page 21, Spelling Practice – B7, 1.08.1 00:00:00
1.09.1 Vowel Sound Practice: au says /aw/, cial, and wa says /wä/ – Page 22 00:00:00
Lesson 2 : Skipping Stones
2.01.1 Vowel Teams: ear, dg says /j/, soft “oo”, and ea – Page 24 FREE 00:00:00
2.02.1 Categorize Words with the 4 Essential Syllable Strategies – Page 25 00:00:00
2.03.1 High Frequency Words & Vocabulary and Meaning – Page 26 00:00:00
2.04.1 Skipping Stones – Page 27 00:00:00
2.05.1 Practice for Comprehension- Page 28 FREE 00:00:00
2.06.1 Written Response – Page 29 00:00:00
2.08.1 Listening and Speaking for Comprehension – Page 29 00:00:00
2.09.1 Listening Vowel Teams Spelling Practice: ear, dg, soft oo, and ea – Page 31 00:00:00
2.10.1 Vowel Sound Practice: ear, dg, soft oo, and ea – Page 32 00:00:00
Lesson 3 : Drawing Lesson
Page 34, aw, ough, schwa “o”, and eigh – B7, 3.01.1 00:00:00
3.02.1 Categorize the Words with 4 Essential Syllable Strategies – Page 35 00:00:00
3.03.1 High Frequency Words & Vocabulary and Meaning – Page 36 00:00:00
3.04.1 Drawing Lesson – Page 37 00:00:00
3.06.1 Written Response – Page 39 00:00:00
3.07.1 Listening and Speaking for Comprehension – Page 40 00:00:00
3.08.1 Vowel Teams Spelling Practice: aw, ough, schwa “o”, and eigh – Page 41 00:00:00
Page 42, Vowel Practice: aw, ough-B7, 3.09.1 00:00:00
Level 8 Checkpoint Assessment 03:00:00
Lesson 4 : Baking Bread
4.01.1 Vowel Teams: ea says /ĕ/, ey says /ē/, and ear says /r/ – Page 44 00:00:00
Page 45, Four Essential Syllable Strategies – B7, 4.02.1 00:00:00
4.03.1 High Frequency Words & Vocabulary and Meaning – Page 46 00:00:00
4.04.1 Baking Bread – Page 47 00:00:00
4.05.1 Practice for Comprehension- Page 48 00:00:00
4.06.1 Written Response – Page 49 00:00:00
4.07.1 Listening and Speaking for Comprehension – Page 50 00:00:00
4.08.1 Listening Vowel Teams Spelling Practice: ea says /ĕ/, ey says /ē/, and ear says /r/ – Page 51 00:00:00
4.09.1 Vowel Sound Practice: – Page 52 00:00:00
4.10.1 Vocabulary – Page 53 00:00:00
Lesson 5 : The Coral Reef
5.01.1 Vowel Teams: ie can say ē, tur says chur, and ear can say /āir/ – Page 56 00:00:00
5.02.1 Vowel Teams: dg says /j/, “soft oo” says /ü/, ear says /r/, and ea says /ĕ/ – Page 57 00:00:00
5.03.1 High Frequency Words & Vocabulary and Meaning – Page 58 00:00:00
5.04.1 The Coral Reef – Page 59 00:00:00
5.05.1 Practice for Comprehension- Page 60 00:00:00
5.06.1 Written Response – Page 61 00:00:00
5.07.1 Listening and Speaking for Comprehension – Page 62 00:00:00
5.08.1 Vowel Teams Spelling Practice: ie can say ē, tur says chur, and ear says /r/, and “soft oo” says /ü/ – Page 63 00:00:00
5.09.1 Sight Words – Page 64 00:00:00
5.10.1 Vocabulary – Page 65 00:00:00
Level 8 Progress Assessment 03:00:00

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