1. FastTrack Phonics
and Your Family
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2. Making Connections with
FastTrack Phonics at Home
Part 1:
Helping Your Child
with Letter-Sound
Correspondence
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3. Letter-Sound Correspondence
• Matching letters or
letter groups to sounds
• FastTrack Phonics uses
mnemonic pictures, called
key cards, to help students
remember letter shapes
and sounds.
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4. Connecting Letters
and Sounds at Home
• FastTrack Phonics scope and sequence
• Assessment data
• Letter-sound correspondence games
- I Spy a letter shape
- Sound search
- Key card search
- Which letter?
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5. Making Connections with
FastTrack Phonics at Home
Part 2:
Helping Your Child
with Phonemic Awareness
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6. Phonemic-Awareness Skills
in FastTrack Phonics
• Auditory sound blending
- Say-It-Fast
• Auditory sound segmentation
- Break-It-Down
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7. Making Connections with
FastTrack Phonics at Home
Part 3:
Helping Your Child
with Word-Level Blending
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8. Word-Level Blending
• Sound-It-Out
• Stretch and Read camp
• Green Words
• Steps:
1. Look at the letters.
2. Think about the sound
each letter or letter group makes.
3. Blend the sounds from left to right.
4. Say the word.
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9. The Finger Detective
• Cover.
• Sound out.
• Uncover.
• Blend.
blending
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10. Making Connections with
FastTrack Phonics at Home
Part 4:
Helping Your Child
with Sound Spelling
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11. Sound Spelling
/c/ = c
/a/ = a
/c/ /a/ /t / /t/ = t
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