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LETRS Videos

These videos are all of Canyons School District Teachers teaching strategies they learned in Canvas.  

Small Group

Kindergarten

Practices:  Sound stretching and say it, map it, tap it.

1st Grade

Practices:  Say it-map it-tap it-say it, magic wands, vowel gestures, vowel song, sound spelling.

1st Grade 

Practices:  Phonics word chaining with letters, sound spelling mapping, handwriting incorporation.

Phonemic Awareness

3rd Grade

Practices:  Syllable division and phoneme segmentation.

1st Grade

Practices: Phoneme addition, gestures.

2nd Grade 

Practices: Substitution, vocabulary meaning. 

Kindergarten:

Practices:  Syllable division and letter sounds and names.

Phonics

2nd Grade

Practices: Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, syllable symbol use, vocabulary, multi-syllable word division, actions, vocabulary pictures, partner talk, sentence frames, morphology, spelling rule (v at end of word). 

1st Grade 

Practices:  Syllable gestures, vocabulary, word sorting, sound-spelling mapping, letter formation, choral read, whisper reading.

Vocabulary

3rd Grade

Practices:  Vocabulary routine, syllable division, phoneme segmentation, partner talk, sentence frames, definition, examples, is/is not, meaning continuum, multi-meaning words, vocab in context, passage reading. 

5th Grade Review

Practices: Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, adding context, part of speech, syllables, definition, partner talk, paired gestures. 

3rd Grade

Practices:  Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, explicit vocabulary routine, is/is not, partner talk, sentence frames, syllable division.

2nd Grade

Practices:  Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, syllable division, actions, student-friendly examples, partner talk, cross-curricular ties. 

Comprehension

1st Grade

Practices:  Re-read, learning Intentions and Success Criteria, review, vocabulary, finger tracking, close reading, clarification, checks for understanding, partner talk, sentence stems, partner work. 

2nd Grade

Practices:  Paired Text- Review/set purpose, choral read, sentence starters, partner talk, wax string annotation, use of text evidence, paired reading, self-assessment of Learning Intentions. 

1st Grade

Practices:  Before/During Reading.  Learning Intentions and Success Criteria, text types,  choral reading, text features, anchor charts, making inferences, and finding text evidence.

LETRS Videos