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Lesson Plan

Cooking Up Blends

Have students “cook” the right blends to make a fantastic word dish with beginning, middle, and ending letter sounds. In this lesson, your students will practice recognizing common CVC words.
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Need extra help for EL students? Try the Blending Words pre-lesson.

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to segment and blend common high frequency words.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Begin the lesson by discussing tricky words. Potential discussion questions include:
    • Have you ever read words from books or comics that you did not know how to say?
    • Have you ever tried to say a word but did not know how to sound it out?
  • Explain to students that they will learn and recognize sight words through letter recognition, letter sounds, and blending.

Beginning

  • Pair students with another student who speaks the same home language (L1) to share.

Intermediate

  • Provide examples of tricky words from a familiar text or big book as a visual to reference during the conversation.
  • Display sentence starters for students to utilize as they share aloud.