Reading

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Reading:
  1. ABC Chicken Dance
    1. Objective: Students will practice letter/sound recognition
    2. Play chicken dance song
    3. Hold up flash cards with letters and make sound to music (this really needs the video to do it justice)
    4. __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)
2 hours


4. ABC Mat Activities
    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
      1. Draw a letter, have students sand on it, say the alphabet as a class
      2. hand out ABC puzzle pieces. Have students match.
      3. Assign each child a letter each week to stand on to line up (review and classroom management)
      4. ABC chant - each child sits when their letter is said
      5. Place letter card or object with initial sound on line
      6. 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.
c. __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)
2 hours

  1. Learning Color Words
    1. Objective: Students will learn to spell and read color words.
    2. Introduce the color word song (sung to the tune of B-I-N-G-O)
    3. Point to a written sign of each color word as you sing (attachment with video)
    4. Give students a set of color word strips (printed on card stock) - (attachment with video)
    5. Practice stamping at writing center (template attachment with video)
    6. 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__)
3 hours (templates take a little longer)

  1. Spelling Menu
    1. Objective: Students will learn to spell spelling or word wall words.
    2. 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.
    3. 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).
    4. Spelling City (spellingcity.com); Discovery Schools Puzzlemaker (__http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com__/);
3 hours (templates and modifiable menu)