Goals
Stage: One-Quarter Point
Goal Information
Date: February 23, 2026Attainment Scale:
Starting Point:
First-grade group instruction includes
Day 1
1. Warm up - stack of letter flashcards (10-15) from Sondai - 5 min.
2. Reteach letters that students didn't recognize in the warm up
3. Direct Instruction - word building (it, at, etc.) decode, read, change letters to create new words
4. Dictate words - hot
5. Flashcards of words
Day 2
spend less time on decoding and word building
more on flashcards
Day 3
continue on with flashcards and start decodable book
Day 4 & 5
read decodable book that includes the sounds taught during that week
Confidence is a problem
Midpoint:
Read two 4-5 word sentence independently demonstrating some use of a decoding strategy and letter/sound correspondence.
Mid April
Target Goal:
First-grade group instruction includes
Day 1 - Alphabet Automaticity and Word Building
1. Warm up - stack of letter flashcards (10-15) from Sondai - 5 min.
2. Reteach letters that students didn't recognize in the warm up
3. Direct Instruction - word building (it, at, etc.) decode, read, change letters to create new words
4. Dictate words - hot
Day 2
1. Introduce the decodable - notice and wonder - looking through the pictures and talking about what happening in the text
2. Write a sentence - short 3-5 words. simple words to write "The cat ran home."
Day 3
1. Warm up with letter review, word building, etc.
2. Read the decodable book (strategy of how to read words you don't know - look at the letters, say the sound of the letter, blend the sounds, say the word)
How will they read it? Choral reading - highly supportive, every kid read every page themselves will produce more independent readers.
Day 4 & 5
1. Warm up - decoding CVC practice
2. Reread decodable book that includes the sounds taught during that week
Notes
Peter has been asked to assist with leading students through KAP, and so he has had to suspend lessons. He is trying to maintain meeting with his kindergarten group, but sometimes he only sees them 2-3 times a week.
He is really happy with using the weekly structure that we created for lessons. He sees some students progressing, but other students struggling because of confidence. We discussed looking closely at the decodable readers that he uses (Jumpstart readers) and maybe exploring other decodables that might be simpler. I shared the decodables from Starfall, and he was going to go look in the school bookroom to see what else might be available.
The next time we meet, he will update me about the decodable readers and report how each student in the group is doing reading decodables.