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Get It Right Off the BATT!

Developers & Presenters

Marn Frank

ATLAS Literacy & STAR Coordinator

Kristin Perry

Hmong American Partnership ESL Teacher

Marn Frank, ATLAS, ©2015

Participant Objectives

1. To understand BATT’s history and alignment with CCRS Reading Foundational Skills K-5

2. To define ‘alphabetics’ in K-8, ‘beginning alphabetics’ in ABE/ESL

3. To explore a selection of Tests & Tools

4. To review 5 BATT lesson plans and reflect upon classroom challenges

5. To describe FREE text resources and BATT access


Brief BATT(y) History

• Result of ESL Institute 2014 ‘Cracking the Code’ evaluation: scope? sequence? time? methods? routines? materials? resources? ELLs?

• Collaboration began in the summer of 2014• Continued during school year of 2014-2015 with

(too) many revisions• Piloted by ABE/ESL reading teachers in winter-

spring of 2015


BATT Pilot TeamKristin Klas, Lori Leininger, Emily Fisher, Ellie Purdy,

Kristin Perry, and Erin Evans (not pictured)


K-8 Alphabetics ContinuumUnlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction

Marcia K. Henry, 2010 (2nd Edition)


ABE/ESL Beginning Alphabetics CycleMinnesota Academic Standards, ELA K-12 (MDE, 2010)

College and Career Readiness Standards (USDE, OVAE, 2013)

Oral language proficiency supports all reading foundational skills

Fluency RF.4.K-5


Reading Foundational SkillsMatch-Up

2: counting, pronouncing, blending, and segmenting sounds, syllables, and onsets + rimes into words

4: reading grade-leveled text with purpose, accuracy, appropriate rate, expression, understanding, and self correction

5: an umbrella term that includes print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics and word recognition

1: knowing left>right, spoken>written, words+ spaces=sentences, upper and lower case alphabet

3: knowing and applying single consonants, short vowels, digraphs, blends, vowel teams, sight and irregular word skills


The TESTS

Alphabet Knowledge

1. Identification (upper)

2. Identification (lower)

3. Naming (upper + lower)

4. Writing (upper + lower)

Letter-Sound Knowledge

5. Single consonants

6. Short vowels

7. Consonant blends

8. Consonant digraphs + trigraphs

9. Long vowel silent-e + vowel digraphs

10.Vowel-r + diphthongs


USING TESTS 2, 6, 9

See handout, pages 2-4


The TOOLS

For Teachers

• Proven Practices• Instructional Orders• Phonics Approaches• FIVE LESSONS PLANS• Lesson Plan Template• Other Activities,

Materials, & Resources• References

For Students

• Alphabet Strips & Flashcards

• Sequential Consonant & Vowel Flashcards (page 10)

• Fry’s Instant Words• Fry’s Phrases & Sentences• Word Sort Samples &

Templates• Bingo Template


Proven Practices

• Sequential and systematic: progressing from simple to complex, common to less common, and predictable to less predictable

• Explicit and multi-sensory: scaffolding from modeling to guided practice to independent application with seeing, hearing, saying (reading), touching (writing) activities

• Intentional and routine: purposely offering regular lessons for 10-40 minutes/day, 2-5x/week, over many months (if not years...)


Instructional Orders

Roman Alphabet(upper + lower)

Alphabetical Order

Names + formation Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz

Letter-Sound Patterns(consonants + vowels)

Instructional Order

Single consonants and short vowels (1 sound)

m, l, s, t, a (cat), p, f, c, n, b, r, j, k, i (pin), v, g, w, d, h, u (dug), y, z, x, o (box), e (yes), qu

S-blends (2 sounds) and long vowel-silent e (1 sound)

st-, sm-, sn-, sl-, sp-, sc-, sk- a_e (cake), i_e (hide), o_e (rope), u_e (tube), e_e (eve)

Consonant endings and digraphs (1 sound)

-ff, -ll, -ss, -zz, -ck, -sh/sh-, ch-, -th- (unvoiced and voiced), wh-

Consonant-l and -r blends (2 sounds)

bl-, cl-, fl-, gl-, pl-br-, cr-, dr-, fr-, gr-, pr-, tr-


Phonics Approaches

• Synthetic: teaches individual letters and sounds, then blending and segmenting of recognizable words (m, l, s, t, ă)

• Analogy: teaches phonograms (or rimes) and their related word families formed by adding onsets at the front (-ăck=back, hack, lack…)

• Analytic: teaches analysis of letter-sound patterns in known words and application to unknown words (-ck and -ke= bike, sick, lock, shake, duck, duke…)


Sort & Review: Lesson Plans 1-4

1. Move to a poster that most closely describes your ABE/ESL reading students

2. Find a partner or two

3. Review the appropriate lesson plan that combines Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness, Phonics and Word Recognition (see handouts, pages 5-8)

4. Discuss guiding questions (next slide)


Guiding Questions

• What are you already doing?

• What more can you do?

• What might your weekly routine of lessons look like?

• What are your possible challenges?Marn Frank, ATLAS, ©2015

Fluency: Lesson Plan 5

Shorter text:

1. Teach small sets of high frequency words

2. Model and guide oral reading of related phrases or sentences

Longer text:

1. Select leveled and connected text

2. Select a fluency technique

3. Model and guide oral reading of selected text

4. Briefly check comprehension with 6W questions


FREE Text Resources!(see handout, page 9)

Center for the Study of Adult Literacy (CSAL) offers a library of over 1500 texts at grade levels 3.0-7.9 (easier, medium, harder)

Pre-Beginning and Beginning Curriculum Units with Transition Skills by MLC develop print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, and comprehension.

Reading Skills for Today’s Adults by Marshall Adult Basic Education has a wide variety of stories at Levels 0.7-8.0.

ReadWorks includes over 2200 passages at K-12 levels with question sets to support text comprehension.

Story by Story Online by Marn Frank/Charles and Pam LaRue provides 12 audio versions of short vowel and consonant digraph stories.


BATTers Up!

View, download, print, and share BATT for FREE!

http://atlasabe.org/resources/ebri/ebri-alphabetics




Out the Door Prizes

Check your handout for a sticker.

If you find one, you win a print copy of Beginning Alphabetics Tests and Tools!

Thanks for joining us.


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