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Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill is designed to move your student from the Phonetic Stage into the Skill Development stage. This level capitalizes on the skill of phonemic awareness and builds the emerging reader’s skill of fluency using nursery rhymes. Rhymes give a student an enormous amount of wordplay and aid a student in distinguishing sounds that are similar but not exactly the same. They expand a student’s vocabulary as their reading confidence builds.

This level:

  • Uses a nursery rhyme theme to introduce words in an engaging yet meaningful format
  • Nursery rhymes introduce words and ideas that students might not otherwise hear and help students distinguish sounds that are similar, but not exactly the same. Easy to say and easy to learn, nursery rhymes add an indispensable auditory component during the Phonetic and Skill Development Stages of spelling
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Jack and Jill provides practice in writing individual letters and in hearing the sounds they make in simple words. It also provide opportunities for students to study words in the context of nursery rhymes by marking letter patterns, copying words and passages, and writing from dictation.

 

Placement Guidelines

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Placement Guidelines

This level is for the student who prints easily with lowercase letters and who knows most letter sounds, including long and short vowels.

If you answer “Yes” to these four questions, your child is ready to begin Jack and Jill.

  • Can my student focus on a worksheet for at least 10 minutes?
  • Can my student hold a pencil and write a sentence?
  • Can my student give the sounds for most letters, including both long and short vowel sounds?
  • Is my student beginning to read books like Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss?

If you answer “No” to any of the questions above, try the readiness guidelines for the previous level, Listen and Write.

  • Lesson 1: Rhyming, Details in Print, Short a
  • Lesson 2: Rhyming, Details in Print, Short i
  • Lesson 3: Introduce Dictation, Details in Print, Short o
  • Lesson 4: Details in Print, Reading the Words Back, Short u
  • Lesson 5: Details in Print, Counting the Correct Words, Short e
  • Lesson 6: Details in Print, Review of Short Vowles
  • Lesson 7: Details in Print, Vowel Review
  • Lesson 8: Details in Print, Beginning Blends with Short a
  • Lesson 9: Details in Print, Chunking, Blends with Short i
  • Lesson 10: Details in Print, Blends with Short o, Review of Short a and i
  • Lesson 11: Vowel Chunks, Beginning Blends with Short u
  • Lesson 12: Details in Print, Beginning Blends with Short e, Silent e
  • Lesson 13: Tricky y Guy, Digraphs
  • Lesson 14: Tricky y Guy, Bossy r, End Blends, and Digraphs
  • Lesson 15: Ck and Double Consonants
  • Lesson 16: Details in Print, Beginning and End Blends
  • Lesson 17: Details in Print, Words with Five Letters
  • Lesson 18: Details in Print, Words with Five Letters
  • Lesson 19: Vowel Chunks, Copywork
  • Lesson 20: Vowel Chunks, Silent Letters
  • Lesson 21: Vowel Chunks, Tricky y Guy
  • Lesson 22: Bossy r Chunks
  • Lesson 23: Vowel Chunks
  • Lesson 24: Vowel Chunks, Bossy r Chunks
  • Lesson 25: Vowel Chunks, Bossy r Chunks
  • Lesson 26: Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 27: Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 28: Consonant Chunks, Endings
  • Lesson 29: Consonant Chunks, Tricky y Guy
  • Lesson 30: Vowel and Consonant Chunks
  • Lesson 31: Consonant Chunks and Silent Letters
  • Lesson 32: Consonant Chunks and Silent Letters
  • Lesson 33: Consonant Chunks, Silent Letters, and Tricky y Guy
  • Lesson 34: Vowel Chunks, Tricky y Guy
  • Lesson 35: Vowel Chunks, Tricky y Guy, and Endings
  • Lesson 36: Consonant Chunks, Bossy r Chunks, and Silent Letters

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Sample Lesson

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A Typical Week

Jack and Jill Part 1

Student focus on one Rhyme per week using the following daily activities:

  • Read the Rhyme Together
  • Practice Writing Letters
  • Small Amount of Copywork from the Rhyme
  • Practice Writing Words From Dictation Using Letter Boxes

Jack and Jill Part 2



Parts A-C

  • Read the Rhyme Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
  • Student Copies Passage for 10 Minutes and Chunks Their Work


Part D

  • Read the Rhyme Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
  • Complete No Rules Day activity which is designed for creative self-expression to get students excited for the comfortable with writing


Part E

  • Read the Rhyme Together
  • Mark Letter Patterns (Chunking)
  • 10 Minute Dictation

Sample Lesson

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A Typical Week

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Jack and Jill
Universal Set

This set includes everything you need:

  • Instructor’s Handbook – Includes an introduction to the philosophy to Spelling You See, the “Getting Started” guide with an overview of the 36 lessons, and helpful information and resources
  • Student Pack – Includes two student workbooks, erasable colored pencils, and handwriting guide

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Jack and Jill
Instructor’s Handbook

  • Includes an introduction to the philosophy to Spelling You See, the “Getting Started” guide with an overview of the 36 lessons, and helpful information and resources.

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Jack and Jill
Student Pack

  • Includes two student workbooks (workbooks are broken into part one and part 2), erasable colored pencils, and handwriting guide. *Student Packs are great for an additional student, teaching multiple students on the same level, students in a class or co-op setting. Instruction materials not included and are necessary for use of this program.

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