Beginners 3 Overview

Beginners 3 Goals

These are the main goals of Beginners 3. You can download the Beginners 3 Paths to Fluency Tracker to help track students' progress towards these goals.

Phonics: Long-Vowel Phonics

Speaking: Basic Present Simple & Pres. Continuous

Writing: Copying Paragraphs

Reading: Short Story Paragraphs

Common Vocabulary

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Beginners 3 Tips

1. Each unit at this level was designed for 1 week with about 3 hours of class time per week. If you have your students for less than 3 hours a week, you may want to consider doing a unit every two weeks. If the speaking is easy for your students and they are retaining the phonics well, you can probably speed up the pace.

2. The first 2 Units are Review of Beginners 2: If the review units are difficult, you may want to go back and grab some pages from beginners 1 or 2 and have students spend some more time reviewing before moving on.

3. Long-Vowel Phonics. Long vowel words are hard. It is difficult to remember the combinations on a good day, but if students are struggling to remember the sounds of the alphabet letters or how to read consonant blends and digraphs, most of the long-vowel phonics combinations you teach them are going to go in one ear and out the other. Students should be reading between 20-30 short-vowel words with digraphs and consonant blends before heading into long-vowel phonics. You can give the final reading assessment of Beginners 2 if you want to see where your students are with this.

4. The speaking can be a little challenging at this level. The sentences in this level can be a little long and challenging for students. 1. don't teach grammar principles. Just focus on saying the sentences so many times that the students can say them without thinking. They will get into the full grammar of present simple and present continuous in Low-Intermediate 1. Right now, your goal is just to familiarize them with the sentences. 2. If the sentences prove too difficult, you can use the speaking practice from Beginners 1 or 2 paired with the phonics and reading of Beginners 3.

5. If your students are older (Grades 5-12), they can handle (and probably require) a quicker pace. You can just pull the phonics word family lists from this level and pair them with a higher level's material, or you can pull the phonics word family lists and work through a few of them each class so that you make quick progress through the phonics the students need to learn.