Implementing Day One Steps for Youth Fly

Aug 23, 2024

Youth Fly Foundations: Implementation of Day One Steps

Webinar Introduction

  • Presenter: Alyssa Ricky
  • Focus: Implementing Day One Steps of the Youth Fly Foundations Lesson (Steps 1-5)
  • Recording available on YouTube (previous webinar already posted)

Logistics

  • For manual orders, contact Ventress Learning
  • Questions for panelists: Use Q&A function, not the chat
  • Introductions and logistics managed by Alyssa Ricky

Panelists

  • Dr. Holly Lane
  • Dr. Valentina Contes

Implementation Overview

  • Previous webinar covered general guidance
  • Tonight’s focus: Lesson steps 1-5

Key Components in the Manuals

  • Scope and sequence for topics and suggested lesson sequence by grade
  • Getting Ready Lessons: Initial lessons for all grades focusing on sound wall, alphabet knowledge, and letter formation
  • Importance of building instructional routines and managing materials

Day One Overview

  • Warm-up and Review (Steps 1-4) takes approximately 15 minutes
  • Introduction of New Concept (Step 5) takes the remaining 15 minutes

Steps Breakdown

Step 1: Phonemic Awareness

  • No student materials needed
  • Activities: Blending phonemes to form words, segmenting phonemes from words
  • Duration: ~2 minutes
  • Purpose: Supports decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling)

Step 2: Visual Drill

  • Use lesson slides; students respond with grapheme and phoneme
  • Duration: ~3 minutes
  • Focus: Reinforce grapheme-phoneme correspondences
  • Example: Students say “C spells /k/” for grapheme C

Step 3: Auditory Drill

  • Students use a whiteboard or paper
  • Present phonemes, students form corresponding graphemes while repeating sounds
  • Duration: ~5 minutes
  • Purpose: Reinforces phoneme-grapheme connections and builds automaticity

Step 4: Blending Drill

  • Use UFly Blending Board App
  • Duration: ~5 minutes
  • Focus: Segmentation and blending of sounds to read words
  • Word chains used; only previously taught graphemes included

Step 5: New Concept

  • Duration: ~15 minutes
  • Involves clear and direct explanation of the new concept
  • Includes articulatory gesture explanation and letter formation practice
  • Practice with reading and spelling new grapheme (e.g., SH)

Additional Guidance

  • Importance of maintaining lesson pace for developing automaticity
  • Use of slide decks and blending board app for visual and interactive learning
  • Recommendations for adapting lessons based on student needs

Q&A Highlights

  • Assess student needs to determine starting point if new to systematic phonics
  • Integrate or adjust existing handwriting curriculum
  • Expectation: Proficient readers by the end of the program

Resources

  • Foundations Toolbox
  • UFly Apps
  • Lesson slides and additional resources on the website

Closing

  • Encouragement to engage with social media and community for support
  • Invitation to next webinar covering Day Two steps
  • Use of Facebook group for ongoing questions and community support

These notes summarize the key points covered in the webinar on implementing the Day One steps of the Youth Fly Foundations lesson series.

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