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Lesson Plan

Reading and Writing With Our Hands

In this fun hands on lesson plan, your ELs will get to practice segmenting and blending words in a tactile way! This can be used as a stand alone lesson or as a support lesson plan for the **Sound Smoothies** lesson plan.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Sound Smoothies lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Sound Smoothies lesson plan.

Objectives

Academic

Students will be able to blend letter sounds together.

Language

Students will be able to identify and blend the individual letter sounds in grade level words using visual supports.

Introduction

(5 minutes)
  • Display the tiered vocabulary words using the visual Vocabulary Cards and the Glossary for reference. Check for student understanding of each word and provide student-friendly definitions in both English and home language (L1) if needed.
  • Explain that today students will get to practice reading and writing these new words using some super special reading and writing activities!