Chapter 8
1) Student Watch Video
Stay attentive and interactive
2) Student Use Book
Additional Writing Practice of the Letters Pp, Qq, and Rr
3) Parent/Instructor Support
‘Up to Letters Rr and more’
Reinforcing Activities (Mini-Posters, Activity and Bonus Sheets)
Parent/Instructor - Reference Material
Reinforcing Activities - Up to Rr
Letters Directionality
Referring to the People line Banner, helps while reflecting upon reasons provided in the letter stories for each letter formation. The Practice Sheets provided review what is shown in the Video for this section.
Directions:
Remember the stories of the letters and why they look the way they do. Draw a line from the small, child letters to their matching Capital, parent letters. (There are three that belong in the trash can.Circle the one that is correct.
Spelling Sheet
Correlated to this lesson. Making it easy for student to go back over it with the video if need be.
Directions:
First help in saying the name of the picture. The together say it (demonstrated in the program) slowly, slower and then as slow as you can without stopping sound. The figure out which letter makes the first sound. If there is hesitancy, supply the appropriate sound prompt to help your student’s recall. Then as child writes the appropriate letter - reference the people line or use the writing prompt to reinforce the program.
Decoding Application - Future Thinking
Think about this as you are in the process of Decoding. While your mouth is saying a sound of the first letter ‘Your brain is already thinking in the future about the sound of the next letter sound to say. Then as your mouth then says the sound of the next letter, your brain is figuring out the next letter for you to say in the future
This future thinking continues on until a word, sentence and/or book is finished. And this all happens super, super fast! Does this make sense to you?
#6 VOWELS
Because the vowels are SO IMPORTANT (no vowels- no words!), they have been given at least two sounds, a long sound and a short sound. And as you now know…
“The Long Sound is the Letters’ Name!”
Directions:
Find the vowels in the words on the Activity Sheet. Over top of them place the long sound because they are all at the end of the words. Then decode the words.
Ll Blends
This simple activity bring concreteness to an abstract concept. Blends are a great way to build fluency understanding. The mini-poster is a visual reminding tool for the exercise.
Directions:
Put the first sound in one hand and the next sound in the other. As your place your hands together, blend those two sounds in to a single one.
BONUS
Directions:
Write the letters on the lines above the hands that they are signing. Then see if you can decode the words. [Answers can be found in the Video.]
Directions:
Write the letters on the lines below their morse code symbols. Then see if you can decode the words. Remember, letters are separated by single slashes. Words are separated by double dashes [Answers can be found in the Video.]
Parent/Instructor Reference Material
Progressive Word List (Up to Rr)
It is essential for securing a solid literacy foundation for students to only be provided words to decode words with only the letters that are correlated to where the program is.
At this moment in time, we are up to the Letters Rr. Prompts are to be used to effectively provide reasoning for greater retain and eventually speed; they also increase student confidence and remembrance. (DO NOT give answers not promote guessing). If a prompt isn’t quickly responded to with an answer- than that letter’s video needs to be watched and interacted with again.
#1 Activity:
Roll a die and count that many down and circle a word. Decode the word and then either explain it and/or use is in a sentence
#2 Activity:
Roll a die and count that many down and circle a word. Do this two more times circling back over the words.. Decode the words and use in a quick story.
#3 Activity:
Roll a die and count that many down and circle a word. Write the word on a piece of paper. Decode the word and then draw a picture involving it.
WHAT’S NEXT…
Lesson Letters Ss
REQUIRED PREPARATION:
Learning Environment Set
Letters to Language™ Practice/Coloring Book
Crayons, Pencil/Pen
Video Ready
PRINTS for STUDENT
Mini- Posters
PRINTS for PARENT/INSTRUCTOR:
Please feel free to reach out with any questions, comments or concerns. Make sure to reference - Letters to Language.
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