Early Literacy
30-week Scope & Sequence 1st Grade
With Seesaw Early Literacy, our mission is to foster joyful learning opportunities for both educators and students alike. These lessons are designed not only to supplement your teaching but also to inspire a love for early literacy in your students.
Overview:
This is organized from high-utility to low-utility sound-spelling patterns, ensuring a strategic progression in literacy development and including opportunities to revisit and review previously learned skills. It builds upon the simplest to most complex skills, following Dr. Blevins’ (2017) principle that many words can be formed as early as possible.
Implementation:
This scope & sequence is thoughtfully crafted to align with the dynamic needs of teachers’ classrooms. Within this framework, teachers are encouraged to explore and select any of the lessons listed for a particular week, allowing for the freedom to tailor their instruction to best meet their students’ needs and their instructional objectives. Whether teachers prefer whole-class engagement, collaborative partner activities, interactive small group centers, individualized review work, or any other pedagogical approach, these lessons can be seamlessly integrated into a teacher’s existing curriculum.
30-week Scope & Sequence
1st Grade
o
u short e “a” Sound- Spelling Board “i” SoundSpelling Board “o” Sound-Spelling Board “u” Sound-Spelling Board
Sound-Spelling Board
Short “a” Sound & Word Book #1
Short “a” Sound & Word Book #2
Short “i” Sound & Word Book #1
Short “i” Sound & Word Book #2
Short “o” Sound & Word Book #1
Short “o” Sound & Word Book #2
Short “u” Sound & Word Book #1
Short “u” Sound & Word Book #2
Short “e” Sound & Word Book #1
30-week Scope & Sequence 1st Grade
HighFrequency Words With Turtle Phonics Games
l blends
“pl” and “fl”
Sound-Spelling Board
“bl” and “cl”
Sound-Spelling Board
“gl” and “sl”
Sound-Spelling Board
s blends
“sp” and “sn”
Sound-Spelling Board
“sm” and “sk”
Sound-Spelling Board
“sw” and “st”
Sound-Spelling Board
r blends
“dr” and “cr”
Sound-Spelling Board
“gr” “pr” and “fr”
Sound-Spelling Board “tr” and “br”
Sound-Spelling Board
digraphs 1
“sh” Sound-Spelling Board
“th” Sound-Spelling Board
“ch” Sound-Spelling Board
digraphs 2
“_tch” and “wh”
Sound-Spelling Board
“ng” Sound-Spelling Board
l-blends Sound & Word Book #1
l-blends Sound & Word Book #2
s-blends Sound & Word Book #1
s-blends Sound & Word Book #2
r-blends Sound & Word Book #1
r-blends Sound & Word Book #2
“sh” Sound & Word Book Book
“ch”/ “wh” Sound & Word Book
“th” Sound & Word Book
“tch” Sound & Word Book
“ng” Sound & Word Book then them these so some her would make like him
Paparazzi
Environmental Road
Trip
Life Size Game Board
Make a Song Shopping Pictionary
Stack and Read
Throw and Catch Eye Spy
Roll, Write, and Read! Memory Run With It
Write the Room
Writing in the Air
Setting the Table
30-week Scope & Sequence
1st Grade
(-ag, -ad) Sound-Spelling Board “i” (-it, -ip) Sound-Spelling Board
(-ob, -og)
Sound-Spelling Board
(-ub, -un)
Sound-Spelling Board
30-week Scope & Sequence
1st Grade
“_sk” and “_st” Sound-Spelling Board “Long a” Sound-Spelling Board “Long i” Sound-Spelling Board
30-week Scope & Sequence 1st Grade
long e (ee, ea)
“ee” Sound-Spelling Board
long a (ai, ay)
“ea” Sound-Spelling Board “ai” Sound-Spelling Board
long o (oa, ow)
“ay” Sound-Spelling Board “oa” Sound-Spelling Board
long i (y, igh)
“ow” Sound-Spelling Board “y” (cry) Sound-Spelling Board
long u (u, ew, ue)
“igh” Sound-Spelling Board “ew” and “ue” Sound-Spelling Board
30-week Scope & Sequence
1st Grade
rcontrolled: ar, or
“ar” SoundSpelling Board
“or” SoundSpelling Board
r-controlled: ar, or
rcontrolled: er, ir, ur short and long oo
“er” SoundSpelling Board
“ur” and “ir”
Sound-Spelling Board
“oo” (book) SoundSpelling Board
“oo” (moon) SoundSpelling Board
r-controlled; er, ir, ur
and
oo
diphthongs ou, ow, oi, oy au, aw, alk, alt, all
“ou” and “ow”
Sound-Spelling Board
“oi” and “oy” Sound-Spelling Board
“aw” and “au” Sound-Spelling Board
