Lesson Plan
What Does It Say?
Use this fun animal-themed lesson plan to teach your ELs all about beginning letter sounds. This can be used as a stand-alone or support lesson for the **The First Letter Is** lesson plan.
Grades:
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to identify the beginning letter sound of a word.
Language
Students will be able to identify and generate the beginning sound in a grade level word using visual supports.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Introduce the lesson by gathering the students together.
- Write the letter B on the board and say, ""This is the letter B. Let's look at some pictures of things that start with this letter. B says /b/ the same sound as (bear/bird/bee). Can you think of some other things that also start with the same sound (/b/)?""
- Have students turn and talk to share their ideas with the class.
- Encourage pairs to share out using the sentence frame: "________ also starts with the /b/ sound."
- Record student ideas on the board (including pictures if you can).