Class: Grade 1

Lesson Topic: Decodable readers: three letter blend

Date: March 11, 2008

Time: 20 minutes

Materials:

  • Brave Nell
  • Assessment

Objective: Students will be able to:

  • Match text to skill-three letter blend
  • Use structural cues to decode words with three letter blend
  • Blend, read, and sort words with three letter blends

Purpose:The purpose of this lesson is to increase students reading skills and comprehension through a decodable reader. Students will increase their word recognition ofwords with three letter blends.

Standards:

Reading and Literature 13.1: Identify and use knowledge of common textual features (title, headings, captions, key words, table of contents).

Reading and Literature 13.2: Identify and use knowledge of common graphic features (illustrations, type size).

Reading and Literature 13.3: Make predictions about the content of a text using prior knowledge and text and graphic features.

Reading and Literature 13.5: Restate main ideas and important facts from a text heard or read.

Directed Lesson Sequence:

  1. Motivation/ Prior Knowledge: Connect lesson to prior lesson on phonics three letter blend.
  2. Guided Practice: Look at the cover of the book, have the students chorally read it: Brave Nell. Review afraid, again, said, saw, and was on the Word Wall
  3. Ask the group to look at the phonics skill:Consonant Blend.
  4. Go over words at the bottom of the decodable reader: scram, scream, splash, stream, string, stripes, and strong. Ask what these words have in common.
  5. The first page read aloud quietly with the group.
  6. Have the group read aloud without you for the next page.
  7. Independent Practice: Select individuals to read aloud. (popcorn read)
  8. Check for comprehension: Does this story happen during the day or after dark? How do you know?(After dark because Nell was reading by the light of a lantern.)
  9. Why might it be unsafe to try to trip wild animals like raccoons?(Answers will vary but may include wild animals might attack a person.)
  10. Do you think Nell was brave or foolish?(Answers will vary but children may say brave because she camped alone in the woods at night and she tried to trip a wild animal.)
  11. Do you think this story could happen in real life?(Answers will vary, but children may say no because even if a person was foolish enough to try it, a raccoon probably would not be tripped by a piece of string.)
  12. Have children locate words in the story that begin with three consonant letters. List words that are named. Children may supply scram, scream, splash, stream, string, stripes, and strong. Have the completed list reread.
  13. Independent Practice: Have students bring the decodable reader home and read it.
  14. Differentiation: Decodable readers are read in a safe environment based on ability (blue, red, yellow, green). For the emerging groups books are read chorally before the student is asked to read them individually while students in the higher groups read page to page not having to go though it chorally but by themselves.
  15. Assessment: Students should be able to identify three letter consonant blends (use assessment attached).
  • 0=student is still challenged by the skill
  • P=progress
  • * =evidence of mastery