Science of Reading (SoR) activities in a variety of linguistic areas are provided for each Sonday System 1 and 2 level as Warm Ups (to be done right before a session) and Cool Downs (to be done immediately after a session). These activities are designed to take only 1-2 minutes to complete; however, some Cool Downs may be extended to a longer time, as appropriate for your students.
Recommendation
Choose either one Warm Up or one Cool Down activity to do each day.
Tip
Before conducting your first SoR activity, visit the Science of Reading tab on the Product Home page for additional context, research findings, and direction.
To implement the SoR activities in Sonday System 1 and 2:
- Log in to the Teaching Dashboard at teacher.imaginesonday.com.
- Click Details in the applicable class tile.
- Go to the class's current level.
- The Science of Reading Warm Up activities for that level are at the bottom of the Class Level Overview page. The number in parentheses in the corner of each tile indicates how many times you have already taught a given activity. Click Start to launch an activity.
- Different types of activities as well as different versions of the same activities appear at each level, so that unique content can be presented during every teaching session. Choose only one activity per session. As with a regular lesson, any content that needs to be read by the student(s) in a Science of Reading activity appears in the Slide Controller and can be shared via your preferred Display Method. Use the forward and back arrows to navigate through the slides. The End slide will appear when all student-facing content has been displayed.
Note that not every activity has slides. Sometimes students must respond to an oral prompt contained in the teacher instructions. - Cool Down activities are at the bottom of the Class Level Completed page after finishing all steps in a session. As with the Warm Up activities, the number in parentheses in the corner of each tile indicates how many times you have already taught that activity. Click Start to launch the activity.
- Use the forward and back arrows to navigate through the slides. The End slide will appear when all student-facing content has been displayed.
When you have finished a Warm Up or Cool Down activity, click the Click Here To End This Session button to return to the Class Level Overview or Class Level Completed page.
Note
Science of Reading activities are tracked separately from lessons. You can view the activity data in the class's Session History after the activity is taught.
Click the binoculars to view the slides in the activity.