1st Grade Blast Classroom Setup Virtual Components - Primary Level - SY 2024-2025

Term:  July 2024- June 2025 School Year

Everything one teacher needs to teach 20 students:

• 1 set of Blast Foundations Teacher Lesson Plan Books
• Blast Foundations Online - Expires June 30, At end of the school year 
• 10 Blast Foundations Student Kits (1 kit per every 2 students)
• 20 Guided Practice Blast Foundations Student Workbooks sets
• 20 Reading Playground - - Expires June 30 - At end of the school year 
• 1 Virtual Implementation Teacher Training Course seat - Expires June 30, At end of the school year 
• 1 Vowel Poster Set

Suggested add-on - 10 sets of SyllaBoards™ Kit 3 - Grades K-1

All the lessons are built for,  the teacher and include a thorough explanation of the concepts, routines, and procedures. The lessons are easy to follow so that they can be taught by a wide range of educators, not just seasoned literacy professionals and phonics specialists. For those unfamiliar with teaching phonemic awareness and phonics, the guides include incremental professional development for each lesson.

Student Group Size, Scope and Sequence, and Lesson Structure

Blast Foundations lessons can be taught in various group sizes, depending on your situation. When used in 1^st grade, it's often taught as a whole-class supplement thus the group sizes are large. When used as an intervention in 2^nd grade, it's typically taught in smaller groups.

The Blast Foundations scope and sequence is systematic and cumulative. All students start with Lesson 1 and complete all instructions.

The scope and sequence covers explicit instruction in the foundational skills needed to help students who struggle with basic skills in reading.  They will learn how to master words with cvc, digraphs, two-sound blends, trigraphs, and the vowel-consonant-e spelling.  Students also learn how to apply functional strategies to successfully read multi-syllabic words with ease.  Blast targets the skills needed to build confidence with decoding skills in order to become accurate fluent readers.

Blast has 25 units which are comprised of 5 lessons per week.  Each lesson keeps students actively engaged in the learning process with multisensory teaching designed to be completed in 15-20 minute sessions.  In one week, students are immersed in 75-100 minutes of explicit instruction. 

• Lesson 1 (Monday) – Letter Sounds/Sight Words
• Lesson 2 (Tuesday) – Phonemic Awareness
• Lesson 3 (Wednesday) – Phonics Instruction
• Lesson 4 (Thursday) – Student Practice
  • Detective Work
  • Word Sort
  • Controlled/Partially Controlled Phrase Reading
• Lesson 5 (Friday) – Wrap-Up
  • Partially Controlled Phrase and Sentence Reading
  • Spell It!  (Review and practice words with Phonics Concept from Lesson 3)