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Unit 1: Phonological Awareness and Prewriting

Lesson 1: Listening for Sounds

Lesson 2: Same or Different Sounds?

Lesson 3: Listening for a “Wrong” Sound in Songs & Rhymes

Lesson 4: Following Sound Cues

Lesson 5: Sequencing Sounds I

Lesson 6: Sequencing Sounds II

Lesson 7: Word Awareness

Unit 2: Playing with Rhymes + Prewriting

Lesson 1: Rhyming Songs

Lesson 2: Rhyming Basket

Lesson 3: Mystery Box

Lesson 4: Creating a Silly Rhyming Song

Lesson 5: Rhyming with Nonsense Words

Lesson 6: Rhyming Hopscotch

Lesson 7: I Spy a Rhyme

Unit 3: Compound Words and Syllables

Lesson 1: Word Smash

Lesson 2: Compound Detectives

Lesson 3: What's the Other Half?

Lesson 4: Snail Talk

Lesson 5: Chomping Syllables

Lesson 6: Stomp and Clap Names

Lesson 7: Syllable Houses

Lesson 8: Syllable Hops

Unit 4: The Alphabetic Principle + Learning Your Name

Lesson 1: Symbols All Around

Lesson 2: Symbol Scavenger Hunt

Lesson 3: Make Up a Symbol

Lesson 4: My Symbol Book

Lesson 5: Letters Are Symbols Too

Lesson 6: Name Hunt

Lesson 7: Build Your Name

Lesson 8: First Sound Hunt

Lesson 9: Sound Sort and I Spy a Sound

Unit 5: Getting Ready A-J + Uppercase Letters

Getting Ready A

Getting Ready B

Getting Ready C

Getting Ready D

Getting Ready E

Getting Ready F

Getting Ready G

Getting Ready H

Getting Ready I

Getting Ready J