SALTA 1st grade

First Grade PALS

Peer Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS) is designed to provide systematic and explicit and instruction in phonological decoding and comprehension practice. PALS should be used skills-based small group instruction for students in groups 1,2,3,4. The Instructional alignment on the following page describes which lessons to use during skills-based instruction. It may also be used during whole group instruction for at-risk student populations.

First Grade PALS Games for Skills-based instruction: The table below represents the games presented in the 1 st grade PALS program.

First Grade PALS Skill-Based Groups Lesson Routines

This letter’s sound is: ________. Say it with me: ___________. Your turn: _______________.

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Name Game (New Letter Sounds)

Say the (letter) sound

Letter Sounds (Say the Sound)

Stretch it! Stretched (segmenting)

• Watch and listen as I sound out this word. /aaat/. See how I stretch the word by saying each sound without stopping between sounds? Watch me again: /aaat/. • Stretch it with me: ______________ • Your turn: ____________________ • Practice for fluency (***) • When I touch the dot under a letter, you’ll say that letter’s sound. Keep saying that sound until I touch the dot under the next letter.

Sound It Out

Read It!

Let’s read the word: mit Practice for fluency (***)

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New Word Box: Sight Words

The word is: was

Say it with me: ___________. Your turn: _______________. Read all the sight words. Practice for fluency (***)

Read the Sentences

• We have practiced reading sight words and sounding out words in this story. • Let’s read the sentences in the story. • Re-read for fluency

Correction Procedure

That sound is___________ That word is_____________

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Go back three and read them all again.

Phonemic Awareness Mini Lesson (If needed) 3-5 minutes Say it, Tap it, Map it, Write it

• Say it: say the word and students repeat the word. • Tap it: students tap the sounds in the sound boxes. • Map it: students push discs into the individual sounds boxes. • Write it: students write the word in the Elkonin boxes.

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