Planning primer lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program

Because the Gudschinsky instructional program is eclectic there are many different parts (See The Gudschinsky instructional program) that can be incorporated into a lesson. A single lesson may not include all parts, but will need certain essential elements, such as analysis and contrast. These elements will vary somewhat between lessons teaching phonemes and those teaching functors.

Lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program build on previous lessons. The pre-primer lessons (or reading and writing readiness) prepare the learner for reading and writing by focusing on psychological, audio, visual and motor preparations for the tasks of reading and writing. Following this preparatory stage, lessons generally follow the format of the following three basic types (although the first lessons may differ slightly):

1. New letters (phonemes)
2. Teaching functors or grammatical features
3. Review lessons

The Gudschinsky lesson includes reading to the students as well as reading and writing. Each of these should be included in each lesson. Reading to the students (includes the reading of a book or LEA), letter drills, functor drills and reading of the primer story (connected material) using the new element. Writing includes letter formation, spelling, and creative writing.

Numeracy instruction should also be included in each lesson.

Here is a a prerequisite to planning lessons for the Gudschinsky instructional program:

• You need to complete the preparatory steps in planning a Gudschinsky primer.

  See:	Preparing a primer for the Gudschinsky instructional program

• Prepare preprimer lessons.
• Prepare the first primer lessons.

  The first lessons are slightly different from later lessons.

  See:	The first primer lessons (Lee)

• Prepare lessons in which you teach new letters.
• Prepare lessons in which you teach functors.
• Prepare review lessons.
• Prepare tests to assess learners' progress.

• Task module: Planning primer lessons for the Gudschinsky instru..., by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Preparing a primer for the Gudschinsky instruction..., by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Developing primers, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In task module: Developing materials to teach reading and writing
• In task module: Developing instructional materials, by Trudy K. Stewart, Leah B. Walter (contributor), and Trudi C. Hunt (contributor)
• In task module: Developing an instructional program, by Kenneth A. Boothe (contributor), Patricia M. Davis (contributor), Trudy K. Stewart (general editor), Leah B. Walter (contributor), Glenys Waters (contributor), and Adelle R. Walter (illustrator)
• In task module: Implementing a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler)
• In modular book: Implement a literacy program, by Carole P. Spaeth (compiler) and Leah B. Walter (compiler)
• In bookshelf: Literacy

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