Kindergarden Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide

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Dimensions of Difficulty
Lessons can be crafted to be more or less difficult by varying the number of
phonemes in a word, as well as using gross or fine motor movement. The chart
below illustrates how lessons can be designed to be more or less challenging
across both dimensions.

Variables Gross Motor

Movement

Fine Motor

Movement

Skill Example Prompt

recognize a beginning

sound change

“Humpty Lumpty” isn’t

right. What should it be? Least Difficult

Blend a beginning

sound and the rest of

the word

Which picture shows a

/f/.../ish/?

isolate a beginning

sound

Say the first sound in

sheep.

Blend two-phoneme

words

Put these sounds

together to make a word:

/b/ /ee/.

Blend three-phoneme

words

(includes adding a

Phoneme work in this

section)

Put these sounds

together to make a word:

/c/ /u/ /p/.

(What new word do you

get if you add /n/ to the

end of ray?)

Most Difficult