Reading

Reading: 2 hours 4. ABC Mat Activities c. [|__www.literacy__] center.net; [|__www.getreadyto__] [|read.org;] [|__http:// teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/__] (letter and sound match); __[]__ (letter sound match); [|__www.starfall.com__] (Let’s Get Ready to Read) 2 hours 3 hours (templates take a little longer) 3 hours (templates and modifiable menu) 
 * 1) ABC Chicken Dance
 * 2) Objective: Students will practice letter/sound recognition
 * 3) Play chicken dance song
 * 4) Hold up flash cards with letters and make sound to music (this really needs the video to do it justice)
 * 5) [|__www.literacy__] center.net; [|__www.getreadyto__] [|read.org;] [|__http://teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/__] (letter and sound match); [|__http://pbskids.org/lions/games/monkeymatch.html__] (letter sound match); [|__www.starfall.com__] (Let’s Get Ready to Read)
 * 1) Objective: Students will practice letter/sound recognition.
 * 2) Use a purchased ABC (long) mat or make one from an old window shade or strip of wall paper boarder
 * 3) Draw a letter, have students sand on it, say the alphabet as a class
 * 4) hand out ABC puzzle pieces. Have students match.
 * 5) Assign each child a letter each week to stand on to line up (review and classroom management)
 * 6) ABC chant - each child sits when their letter is said
 * 7) Place letter card or object with initial sound on line
 * 8) Create a human graph by having children make a line by the first letter of their name. transfer to a paper graph. Take a photo.
 * 1) Learning Color Words
 * 2) Objective: Students will learn to spell and read color words.
 * 3) Introduce the color word song (sung to the tune of B-I-N-G-O)
 * 4) Point to a written sign of each color word as you sing (attachment with video)
 * 5) Give students a set of color word strips (printed on card stock) - (attachment with video)
 * 6) Practice stamping at writing center (template attachment with video)
 * 7) Spelling City (spellingcity.com); I need to take time to decide how to present it, but using the text to speech function to have the words read to students would be a great way to check any spelling activity ; Literacy Center: Colors ([|__www.literacycenter.net)__]; Dr. Jean’s Website: Printable Color Farm printable book ([|__http://www.drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2005/09_Sep/pg03.html__])
 * 1) Spelling Menu
 * 2) Objective: Students will learn to spell spelling or word wall words.
 * 3) When I worked with older students, we had a school-wide spelling curriculum we were required to teach. I provided students with a menu of activities to choose from each week as an alternative to the workbook.
 * 4) When working with younger students, these were activities they could do using word wall words or their personal flashcards (they had a metal ring of index cards containing words they repeatedly struggled with in their reading and writing).
 * 5) Spelling City (spellingcity.com); Discovery Schools Puzzlemaker ([|__http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com__]/);