
Jack and Jill
Jack and Jill uses fun and engaging nursery rhymes to teach spelling skills and introduce new words. Nursery rhymes tell a story, helping students develop an understanding of simple narrative sequences and provide expanded opportunities for vocabulary development. Easy to say and easy to learn, nursery rhymes add an indispensable auditory component to this level.
- Jack and Jill Overview
- Placement Guidelines
- Scope & Sequence
- Sample Lesson
Jack and Jill is designed to move your student from the Phonetic Stage into the Skill Development stage. This level capitalizes on the skill of phonemic awareness and builds the emerging reader’s skill of fluency using nursery rhymes. Rhymes give a student an enormous amount of wordplay and aid a student in distinguishing sounds that are similar but not exactly the same. They expand a student’s vocabulary as their reading confidence builds.
This level:
- Uses a nursery rhyme theme to introduce words in an engaging yet meaningful format
- Nursery rhymes introduce words and ideas that students might not otherwise hear and help students distinguish sounds that are similar, but not exactly the same. Easy to say and easy to learn, nursery rhymes add an indispensable auditory component during the Phonetic and Skill Development Stages of spelling
Is my child ready for Jack and Jill?
If you can answer “Yes” to all of these questions, your student is ready to begin Jack and Jill:
- Can my student focus on a worksheet for at least 10 minutes?
- Can my student hold a pencil and write a sentence?
- Can my student give the sounds for most letters, including both long and short vowel sounds?
- Is my student beginning to read books like Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss?
If you answer “No” to any of the questions above, try the readiness guidelines for the previous level, Listen and Write.
Lessons contained in Jack and Jill
- Lesson 1: Rhyming, Details in Print, Short a
- Lesson 2: Rhyming, Details in Print, Short i
- Lesson 3: Introduce Dictation, Details in Print, Short o
- Lesson 4: Details in Print, Reading the Words Back, Short u
- Lesson 5: Details in Print, Counting the Correct Words, Short e
- Lesson 6: Details in Print, Review of Short Vowles
- Lesson 7: Details in Print, Vowel Review
- Lesson 8: Details in Print, Beginning Blends with Short a
- Lesson 9: Details in Print, Chunking, Blends with Short i
- Lesson 10: Details in Print, Blends with Short o, Review of Short a and i
- Lesson 11: Vowel Chunks, Beginning Blends with Short u
- Lesson 12: Details in Print, Beginning Blends with Short e, Silent e
- Lesson 13: Tricky y Guy, Digraphs
- Lesson 14: Tricky y Guy, Bossy r, End Blends, and Digraphs
- Lesson 15: Ck and Double Consonants
- Lesson 16: Details in Print, Beginning and End Blends
- Lesson 17: Details in Print, Words with Five Letters
- Lesson 18: Details in Print, Words with Five Letters
- Lesson 19: Vowel Chunks, Copywork
- Lesson 20: Vowel Chunks, Silent Letters
- Lesson 21: Vowel Chunks, Tricky y Guy
- Lesson 22: Bossy r Chunks
- Lesson 23: Vowel Chunks
- Lesson 24: Vowel Chunks, Bossy r Chunks
- Lesson 25: Vowel Chunks, Bossy r Chunks
- Lesson 26: Consonant Chunks
- Lesson 27: Consonant Chunks
- Lesson 28: Consonant Chunks, Endings
- Lesson 29: Consonant Chunks, Tricky y Guy
- Lesson 30: Vowel and Consonant Chunks
- Lesson 31: Consonant Chunks and Silent Letters
- Lesson 32: Consonant Chunks and Silent Letters
- Lesson 33: Consonant Chunks, Silent Letters, and Tricky y Guy
- Lesson 34: Vowel Chunks, Tricky y Guy
- Lesson 35: Vowel Chunks, Tricky y Guy, and Endings
- Lesson 36: Consonant Chunks, Bossy r Chunks, and Silent Letters
Lesson 4: Details in Print, Reading the Words Back, Short u
Activities Include:
- Practice Writing Letters
- Practice Writing Words From Dictation
- Reading Words Aloud and Together
A Typical Week:
Part 1:
Student focus on one Rhyme per week using the following daily activities:
- Read the Rhyme Together
- Practice Writing Letters
- Small Amount of Copywork from the Rhyme
- Practice Writing Words From Dictation Using Letter Boxes
Part 2:
Days 1-3:
Parts A-C
- Read the Rhyme Together
- Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
- Student Copies Passage for 10 Minutes and Chunks Their Work
Day 4:
Part D
- Read the Rhyme Together
- Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
- Complete No Rules Day activity which is designed for creative self-expression to get students excited for the comfortable with writing
Day 5:
Part E
- Read the Rhyme Together
- Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
- 10 Minute Dictation