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Lesson Plan

Hands On Reading

Challenge your emerging readers to segment words into individual sounds with this phonemic awareness lesson. Use alone or with the "Read with Beads" lesson plan.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Read with Beads lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Read with Beads lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic

Students will be able to isolate the sounds in three and four letter short A words.

Language

Students will be able to isolate the sounds in three and four letter short A words using repetition, movements and visual supports.

Introduction

(2 minutes)
  • Ask students what a vowel is.
  • Remind students that a vowel is a letter, and that every word has at least one vowel.
  • Point to the letters on a class alphabet chart as you name the five vowels with your students.
  • Review the short vowel sounds with students, using an image if possible. For example, "A says ah-ah-apple, E says e-e-egg, I says i-i-igloo, O says o-o-octopus, and U says u-u-under."
  • Tell students that today you will be listening for the different sounds that make up a word, and focusing on the letter A.
  • Show students the Vocabulary Cards to review the vocabulary.