We slowed down with You Can Read while we enjoyed a total school break and some vacation time! We spread this unit out over a few weeks, only working on days she asked me to. She learned these 4 words so quickly! Along with adding these new words, we also reviewed the previous 4 words. She is really doing well, it seems I hit the sweet spot of her being ready to read, I am glad I waited!
Here’s a post sharing You Can Read Sight Words Unit Two with Krash when he did it! See all of Krash’s Kindergarten posts here.
Unit Organization
You can see how we store ALL of our You Can Read stuff here. For current units I use this
metal file container {Target} and hanging folders. The pink ones are You Can Read units, the yellow are her Kindergarten Literature Unit Study Printables {which we are not using during the summer but will pick back up again in August}. I have a daily lesson plan for both in a sheet protector in the front. The You Can Read printable lesson plan is here.
I have been asked a lot how we do things so I am trying to outline it for you as much as possible, there’s even a couple of video clips! I am not sure if I will blog all the way through You Can Read like this, but if it is helpful, I might, let me know! Below you will see exactly what we did on each day and how I spread it out.
Day One
Here’s a before shot showing what we did together on the first day with unit two. We focused a LOT on the sight word caterpillar and instead of hanging him on a wall we are using our pocket chart so we can take the circles down and use them during the lessons.
After I taught her her the words, she built them…
We read the book, Me Too! together and then she read it alone. This one is from the Sight Word Readers.
Word shapes in the dry erase center!
Day Two
Here is the before shot for day 2.
She chose stamping words first!
Next up, word puzzles!
Then a very creative color by number sight word! And she was gladly using her pom pom pencil grip correction, we are still working on getting the grip better even with the pom pom helper.
Finally, tracing to connect words, I was shocked, she read them all without hesitating! Learned this set way faster than the first set of words.
Day Three
Our third day of lessons with these words…
She chose her easy reader first…
Dot Painting her funny font words…
We played BINGO, with mini Spielgaben pieces.
Day Four
Day 4 with these words, by this day she knew them solidly with no hesitation, so it was a fun review.
She chose play dough words first…
Happily posing with her finished words {she wanted to move them onto my desk off of the pages}
Working on the word search, using the display words to help find the words.
We had an AWESOME time playing throw and read with our Education Cubes inserts!
 
Here’s a video clip of us playing…
Day Five
I set up a few activities for her and she chose what to do first.
I set up two word play areas, one here with our magnetic letter construction kit, which she was totally UNimpressed by and didn’t even touch, except to redesign my words into a family.
 
She loved this one, I made the words using our caterpillar word circles and some of our Spielgaben pieces. She didn’t want to recreate the words, but loved reading them to me.
Finding and circling words in sentences…
Tracing her words…
Color by word…
Finally, she played two mini games on Bitsboard. If you misses our Unit 1 post, I described Bitsboard and how we are using it with You Can Read {and how to find the word lists I created}.
 
She learned these words so quickly, I didn’t even do all of the activities with her. It was time to move on! I will adjust each week based on how quickly she masters the words. With You Can Read I don’t move on without mastery, or very close to it. If she doesn’t know them we just keep playing with them until she does, that’s why I provide TONS of activities to choose from to take the units as far as you might need to!
Here’s most of her completed work from the time we spent with these words…
Download the FREE printables for You Can Read Unit 2 here
Purchase the You Can Read Bundle here {get access to the bonus items}
See our You Can Read YouTube playlist here
See our post featuring Unit 1 here!
