The goal of this lesson is to improve
blending skills. Blending is important
in emergent literacy because students need to know how to produce many
individual short utterances and mouth moves (phonemes) into one long
(words). Students will create their own
(Advance preparation) Draw a picture
of a caterpillar
with three circular body parts. (Be sure to give the caterpillar
features). Photo copy the picture (one
for each student). Next, create an
alphabet table (Microsoft word is good for this) with all 26 lower case
letters, make a copy one for each student.
Laminate tables and caterpillars and cut out the alphabet
Each body part of the caterpillar and each
letter back should have a Velcro dot.
- (1)Today, guys,
we will be learning about
blending. Blending is very important in
reading. So what is blending?
Blending is taking each sound of the word and
putting them all together to say the word without pausing or stopping.
have to create a caterpillar so that we can blend and make a smooth
- (2)Okay, let's
talk about the sounds that
the short vowels make a=/a/, e=/e/, i=/i/, o=/o/, u=/u/. All
right now lets talk about the consonant sounds (I would then
consonant sound with the students).
the students the word cat on the board. Then
model the blending process
with the caterpillar. Okay, I
know that c=/c/, so /c/ and a=/a/ so /a/. I
need to put them together. Place the
c on the head of the caterpillar and the a on the body.
Begin sounding out and blending aloud so that
the children hear your thought process. /c/
/a/ so.../ca...ca...cat/. I know
that t=/t/. So if t=/t/ and ca=/ca/. It
must be cat! Cat ...oh like my pet cat.
should partner up for the independent practice of blending. While the students are taking turns in their
groups, the teacher should be walking around the room watching for
need one-on-one. Now it is
your turn. I want you
to practice blending the word fan by completing the
word fan on the caterpillar's body). Continue
the practice as many times as you'd like with CVC words.
will put their new skill to work by doing a shared reading with The
will be assessed in by blending the words that
we went over in the lesson.
Trish Uselman. Youth
Net. 2005. http://www.youth.net/cec/ceclang/ceclang.14.txt
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