Recognize and read with automaticity grade-level high frequency words.
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| My Strengths | Students will create a poster that includes a drawing of themselves performing an identified strength. Students and the teacher will discuss and list the many different strengths that children have and things that they can do all by themselves. Students will then focus on one strength that they would like to write and draw about. In this lesson, students will create a self-portrait and add writing or writing attempts to complete a given sentence frame.
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| Monkey Business: A Problem | In this close reading lesson, the teacher will read aloud Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. Students will answer text-dependent questions and explain the meaning of new vocabulary. They will identify sight words and choral read repetitive parts of the text. Students will identify the setting, characters, and important events (including the problem and solution) and record these on a story map. They will retell the story and create a tri-fold book with illustrations and sentences explaining the beginning, middle, and end of the story. After analyzing the text, students will draw and dictate or write to explain the problem and solution in the text. |
| Supermarket Sorting | In this lesson, in a hands-on activity, students will practice sorting food items from the grocery store into different categories. The teacher will read aloud Eating the Alphabet by Lois Ehlert and send students on a scavenger hunt to find and record pictures of fruits and vegetables that are hung around the room. Students will be asked to provide an opinion of what they think is the best fruit or vegetable during a writing assignment and explain why they like it. Then each student will draw a picture of that food on a paper plate to display with their writing. |
| My Caterpillar Loves to Eat! | In this lesson, students will listen to the teacher read aloud the well-loved book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. Students will collaboratively practice retelling the story with a partner and record the food that the caterpillar ate on a class chart. Using their imagination, students will create a sentence and accompanying illustration of what their caterpillar would eat using the high frequency word ‘and’. Teachers are provided with a rubric to assess how the students are using punctuationusing punctuation, capitalization, finger spacing, and phonetic spelling. |
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Description |
| Fluency: Word Climb | In this activity, students will quickly read and match high frequency words on a game board. |
| Fluency: I Read, You Point | In this activity, students will quickly identify words on word cards as they are read aloud by a partner. |
| Fluency: Fast Words | In this activity, students will quickly read high frequency words on a practice sheet while being timed. |
| Phonics: Word Bowling | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a bowling game. |
| Phonics: Word Memory Game | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a memory game. |
| Phonics: Word Baseball | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a baseball game. |
| Phonics: Word Fishing | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while playing a "fishing" game. |
| Phonics: Word Checkers | In this activity, students will read high frequency words while they play a checkers game. |
| Phonics: Sandpaper Words | In this activity, students will read high frequency words. |
