The Cave - Tip Sheet
- IT IS ESSENTIAL TO PRE-TEACH THE CONCEPTS INTRODUCED IN EACH BOOK PRIOR TO READING! -
The Cave - Teacher Tip Sheet Purple Series - Book 1 - The Cave |
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Grapheme/Phoneme Correspondence |
Tips and Activities to Try |
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Introduced in This Book
Previously Introduced Vowels
Consonants
Digraphs/Trigraphs
Additional Concepts
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Key Concepts to Understand
Note: “The Cave” includes i-e (“i consonant e”), a-e (“a consonant e”), o-e (“o consonant e”) so ensure students have had a lot of practice with VCe before reading this book. Review soft <c> from “Recess” (Blue Series)
Words and Phrases for Reading and Writing Here is a list of words that can be used for phonemic awareness activities, reading, dictation, games cards, etc.:
Here are phrases that can be used for reading and/or dictation practice. These phrases can be combined to create sentences. A good opportunity arises to address syntax if the resulting sentence is not grammatically correct.
You can differentiate for your students by dropping some of the words in these phases (e.g., “the ripe lime” can just be “the lime”). |
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Orthographic Conventions/Patterns and Generalisations |
Tips and Activities to Try |
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Key Concepts to Understand
Word Sort Provide students with the following (unsorted) words:
The goal is for students to notice that the <a> is pronounced /ă/ when followed by /g/ or /k/ (velar stop). |
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Morphology |
Tips and Activities to Try |
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Previously Introduced
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Key Concepts to Understand
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Comprehension Corner - The Cave |
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Vocabulary Development
Making Connections
Inferencing
Retelling/Summarizing
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Tip Sheet written by Shari Kudsia and Helen Maclean - April 2023 - ©SyllaSense Inc.