Great for identifying letters in different fonts! They circle and count each type of letter and write number beside it. When done, they do a letter search on the back. Students find the card and write down the letter the word starts with beside the correct number. On Wednesday we do a read the room activity. When one letter reaches the top, they win! They spin an uppercase letter and practice tracing the letters. Great practice for those colour words as well! Then when they are done, they can play Spin to the Top. They have to write the initial letter of each word, then colour the picture using the colour code. ![]() On Tuesday students will do a colour code activity. We will sort the picture cards based on their initial sound (or final sound with X). Then we do a card sort in the pocket chart. On Monday we will practice the sounds that each letter make by chanting "b says /b/, m says /m/, etc." We sometimes add an action to go with it, like biting an apple for /a/ or bouncing a ball for /b/. The first week is BSMAC, then TDLRI, JGHON, PUQWY, and lastly ZXEVKF. Each week the activities are the same, but it focuses on a different set of letters. I'm planning on using activities from my new Alphabet Practice pack. ![]() ![]() (If you haven't read any of her books, check out Small-Group Reading Instruction. We still do sight words each work (although the very first week of school we just focus on our names) and we do a poem of the week, but each week we focus on five (or six) letter sounds. The first five weeks of school are a little bit different for phonics because we are reviewing our alphabet sounds.
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