LESSON 7B: Making Words with at

Students make words with the “at” rime.

GRADE LEVEL EXPECTATIONS

R1B: Develop ability to hear and say separate sounds (phonemes) in words (phonemic awareness): produce rhyming words, isolate consonant sounds, blend onset and rime and blend spoken phonemes.

R1C: Develop alphabet and phonics knowledge by demonstrating awareness that letters represent sounds (phonics) and a string of letters represent words, name most letters, say sounds associated with most letters, and write letters that goes with spoken sounds.

LESSON MATERIALS

§         Sources of Literature

o           None

§         Supplies 

o        Supplies from lesson 6B (enough supplies for children to use in small groups)

o        Chart from previous lesson

§         Handouts provided

o        None

§         Words to know

o        none

FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT

Make mental notes to be recorded later of students’ participation during the activity.  At the end of this lesson, record your observations of students’ development to hear and say separate sounds in words and/ or awareness that a string of letters represent a word. Notes from this observation and others can be used to rate each student using the checklist at the end of this unit.

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

1.        Gather in the read-aloud area and gain attention by using a class signal.

2.        Use the chart created in the previous lesson. Review that at makes the /at/ sound and usually when you see it in a word you will say /at/.

3.        Review how you created words in the previous lesson with the cards or cubes. Explain to students that they will make words with the cards or cubes in small groups.

4.        Explain to students the expectations on how to work in small groups to create “at” words and how to record the words they create on paper or on white boards.

5.        In small groups students make words with the cards or cubes. Give each group several “at “ index cards or cubes and several cards or cubes with consonant letters. Students make words out of the cards or cubes.

6.      Gathering back in a large group, students share some of the words they created in their small groups. Write on chart paper to hang in the classroom as a resource. Chant words as you highlight the “at” in each word.