Canadian Daily Phonics Grades 3

31 weekly lessons provide a strong phonetic background. The lessons cover a wide range of skills needed to develop strong reading skills. The teaching plans and activity sheets can be used on a weekly basis or the ideas and worksheets can be used to suit students needs or they could be used for teaching ideas, reinforcing students' phonetic skills, and home study.

Each weekly plan contains an :

Objective

Teacher Information

Daily Planning Ideas containing games, listening activities, stories and riddles.

A Picture Key is provided for each worksheet that has pictures so they can be identified.

Four Weekly Activity Worksheets focus on the concept(s) taught during the week.

Weekly Tests are provided and could be held on the last day of the week or when it is necessary.

Sequential Development of Skills

Week 1: Alphabetical Ordering

Week 2: Initial, Medial and Final Consonants

Week 3: Recognition of Hard and Soft Cc and Gg

Week 4: Recognition of the Short Vowel Sounds 'a, u, i'

Week 5: Recognition of Short Vowels 'o' and 'e'

Week 6: Long and Short Vowel Review

Week 7: 'Yy' as a Vowel and as a Consonant

Week 8: 'R' Controlled Vowels: 'ar, er, ir, or, ur'

Week 9: Syllables in Words

Week 10: 'R' Blends, 'L' Blends, 'S' Blends

Week 11: Recognition of 'ar, or, ir, ur, er' in Words

Week 12: Suffixes 'ed, ing, es, er, est'

Week 13: Suffixes 'ed, ing, er, est, ly, ness, ful, less'

Week 14: Adding Suffixes to Root Words

Week 15: Adding Suffixes 'es' to Words Ending With 'ss, x, ch, sh, f, fe'

Week 16: Syllabication

Week 17: Regular Double Vowels 'ea, ee, ai, oa, ie, ay, ow'

Week 18: Vowel Digraphs 'oo, ea, au, ae, ei'

Week 19: Diphthongs 'oi, oy, ou, ow, ew'

Week 20: Syllabication

Week 21: Consonant Digraphs 'sh, ch, wh, th, ck, kn, ph, gn, wr, gh'

Week 22: Recognition of Prefixes

Week 23: Prefixes, Root Words, Suffixes

Week 24: Syllabication Rules 1 to 5

Week 25: Syllabication Rules 6 and 7

Week 26: Syllabication Rules 8, 9, and 10

Week 27: Review of Syllabication Rules 1 to 10

Week 28: Recognition of Contractions

Week 29: Recognizing and Using Antonyms

Week 30: Recognizing and Using Homonyms

Week 31: Recognizing and Using Synonyms