Lesson Plan
Bird, Star, and the Bossy R
Ever wonder how to get your students to understand r-controlled vowels? Meet Bird, Star, and the Bossy R! These characters will help your students understand how to read and identify that pesky Bossy R through a story and sorting activity.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify and read words with r-controlled vowel patterns.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Gather students to the rug for the start of the lesson.
- Ask students to name the five vowels, A, E, I, O, and U. Ask them what makes vowels special. Answers might include, each letter makes two sounds. Vowels are sometimes silent within a word.
- Say, “Today we are going to learn about special vowel combinations that include the letter R. When a vowel is followed by the letter R, the sound changes to something new. Some people call this the Bossy R for this reason.”
- In most short words with a vowel in the middle, the vowel sound is the short sound like in the words cat, fat, and sit. If we take the last letter of each word and change it to r, they become new words: car, far, and sir. Did you hear how the r makes the vowel sound change in each word?