The first stop on all Independent Tracks is Play the Game. By clicking anywhere on the screen, the student will start a Word Study activity appropriate for their Independent Track Instructional Step: Picture Sorting, Making Words, or Make a Big Word. When the student is finished, clicking Done will bring them back to the map where they will proceed to the next stop with Bella and Rosie or Daisy. On some steps, they will proceed to the Learn a Sight Word activity. Otherwise, the student will progress directly to the Watch the Video stop on the map.
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Make a Big Word
- This activity prepares students for the challenges of decoding new, important words in their texts and provides practice in the skill of decoding multisyllable words.
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Picture Sorting
- This activity improves student phonemic awareness and supports their letter-sound knowledge.
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Making Words
- This activity, which follows a carefully designed scope and sequence, improves students' ability to encode words.
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Learn a Sight Word
- This activity improves students' ability to map the sounds in each sight word to the letters that spell those sounds
To view student results for the word study activities, please see Navigating the Activity Feed Tab.
To learn more about Independent Tracks, please see:
- Reading Adventures (by Level) Overview
- Reading Adventures (by Lexile® measure) Overview
- Phonics Adventures Overview