The Thing on the Hill

Checkpoint story.

Lesson 44 · Unit 5 · Glued Sounds & Spelling Basics · Checkpoint

New this lesson: CHECKPOINT 3 — glued sounds + floss + plurals

Pseudo-word screen: plink, thess

Fresh passage: 70 words, all patterns to date

Lesson 44. Sounds: review. Mastery: 92% passage accuracy; chunks read as units

In the lesson

Practice: Running record; spelling-pattern spot check

With Wiggler: AI checkpoint with parent report

Sounds: cumulative

Unit 5: Glued Sounds & Spelling Basics

5 lessons -ang/-ink families as chunks; floss rule; plural -s/-es with three sounds (ng first heard in Unit 1, Group 5)

• Lesson 40 · The Long Song (New Concept): A song that never ends.
• Lesson 41 · The Pink Skunk (New Concept): A skunk who honks.
• Lesson 42 · Boxes of Foxes (New Concept): Counting plural fun.
• Lesson 43 · The Buzzing Bell (New Concept): A bell that buzzes and fizzes.
• Lesson 44 · The Thing on the Hill (Checkpoint): Checkpoint story.

Part of Skill 5: Glued Sounds & Spelling Basics

• Previous lesson: The Buzzing Bell
• Next lesson: The Cake at the Gate
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