Get It Right Off the
BATT!
Developers & Presenters
Marn Frank
ATLAS Literacy & STAR Coordinator
Kristin Perry
Hmong American Partnership ESL Teacher
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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
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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 winterspring of 2015
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BATT Pilot Team
Kristin Klas, Lori Leininger, Emily Fisher, Ellie Purdy,
Kristin Perry, and Erin Evans (not pictured)
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K-8 Alphabetics Continuum
Unlocking Literacy: Effective Decoding and Spelling Instruction
Marcia K. Henry, 2010 (2nd Edition)
Phonological
Awareness
K
Alphabet
Letters
Sounds
1
Anglo-Saxon
Consonants
Vowels
1-3
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Compounds
Syllables
Prefixes
Suffixes
3-4
Latin Roots
Greek
Combining
Forms
4-8
ABE/ESL Beginning Alphabetics Cycle
Minnesota Academic Standards, ELA K-12 (MDE, 2010)
College and Career Readiness Standards (USDE, OVAE, 2013)
Print
Concepts
RF.1. K-1
Oral language
proficiency
supports all
reading
foundational
skills
Reading
Foundational
Skills
K-5
Phonics and
Word
Recognition
RF.3. K-3
Fluency
RF.4.
K-5
Phonological
Awareness
RF.2. K-1
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Reading Foundational Skills
Match-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
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The TESTS
Alphabet Knowledge
1.
2.
3.
4.
Identification (upper)
Identification (lower)
Naming (upper + lower)
Writing (upper + lower)
Letter-Sound Knowledge
5.
6.
7.
8.
Single consonants
Short vowels
Consonant blends
Consonant digraphs +
trigraphs
9. Long vowel silent-e +
vowel digraphs
10. Vowel-r + diphthongs
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See handout, pages 2-4
USING TESTS 2, 6, 9
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The TOOLS
For Teachers
For Students
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• 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
Instructional Orders
Phonics Approaches
FIVE LESSONS PLANS
Lesson Plan Template
Other Activities,
Materials, & Resources
• References
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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...)
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Instructional Orders
Roman Alphabet
(upper + lower)
Names + formation
Letter-Sound Patterns
(consonants + vowels)
Single consonants and short vowels (1
sound)
Alphabetical Order
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
Instructional Order
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 vowelst-, sm-, sn-, sl-, sp-, sc-, sksilent e (1 sound)
a_e (cake), i_e (hide), o_e (rope),
u_e (tube), e_e (eve)
Consonant endings and digraphs (1
-ff, -ll, -ss, -zz, -ck, -sh/sh-, ch-,
sound)
-th- (unvoiced and voiced), whConsonant-l and -r blends
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(2 sounds)
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…)
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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)
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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?
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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
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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.
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BATTers Up!
View, download, print, and share BATT for
FREE!
http://atlasabe.org/resources/ebri/ebrialphabetics
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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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