Neighborhoods My Sidewalks Level B Unit 1 Week

Neighborhoods My Sidewalks Level B Unit 1, Week 1, Day 1

Objectives • Word Work: Blend Sounds • Phonics: Blend Words with Short a • High Frequency words: always, laugh, only, told • Build Concepts: investigate, rural, urban • Read a Passage: “Neighborhoods, ” p. 6 • Comprehension: Use Strategies Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 2

Phonemic Awareness Listen as I say the sounds: /a/-/t/ Now listen as I say them slowly and then blend them quickly to say the word: /a//t/, at Now you say the sounds and the word: /a/-/t/, at Lets practice blending sounds! Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 3

Phonemic Awareness /a/-/n/ Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 4

Phonemic Awareness /s/-/a/-/d/ Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 5

Phonemic Awareness /b/-/a/-/g/ Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 6

Phonemic Awareness /m/-/a/-/d/ Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 7

Blending Strategy This is the letter “a”. Is it a vowel or a consonant? Now let’s look more at the letter “a” and the short a vowel sound. Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 8

Blending Strategy Free Template from www. brainybetty. com This is an astronaut. What sound do you hear at the beginning of astronaut? Say it with me: /a/ The letter “a” at the beginning of astronaut stands for the short “a” sound. 9

Blending Strategy The letter “a” stands for /a/. This is how I blend this word: /m/-/a/-/n/, man Now you try. /m/-/a/-/n/, man Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 10

Blending Strategy When “a” is the only vowel at the beginning or in the middle of a word, it usually stands for it short sound, /a/. /m/-/a/-/n/ Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 11

Blending Strategy Let’s try the same thing with these words: /a/-/n/ an Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 12

Blending strategy /h/-/a/-/t/ hat Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 13

Blending Strategy /v/-/a/-/n/ van Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 14

Blending Strategy /n/-/a/-/p/ nap Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 15

Blending Strategy /h/-/a/-/s/ has Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 16

Blending Strategy /j/-/a/-/s/ jazz Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 17

Blending Strategy /b/-/a/-/d/ bad Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 18

Blending Strategy /p/-/a/-/n/ pan Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 19

Blending Strategy /r/-/a/-/t/ rat Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 20

Blending Strategy Take out your white boards. Lets write the letters to the sounds you hear when I say a word. Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 21

High Frequency Words On the next few slides I will introduce high frequency words. These are words we will not sound out. Here they are: Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 22

High Frequency Words always Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 23

High Frequency Words laugh Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 24

High Frequency Words only Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 25

High Frequency Words told Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 26

Vocabulary This week you will learn about neighborhoods. Listen for the following AMAZING WORDS: investigate, rural, and urban in the song. Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 27

Vocabulary investigate Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 28

Vocabulary investigate: to try and find out all about it Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 29

Vocabulary avenue Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 30

Vocabulary avenue: another name for a street Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 31

Vocabulary rural Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 32

Vocabulary rural: an area with farms and lots of open spaces Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 33

Vocabulary urban Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 34

Vocabulary urban: a place with many neighborhoods to walk through and lots of tall buildings. Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 35

Vocabulary Let’s say our AMAZING WORDS together! Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 36

Vocabulary investigate Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 37

Vocabulary rural Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 38

Vocabulary avenue Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 39

Vocabulary urban Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 40

Read or Listen to a Passage Take out your student reader. The selections in this book are about exploring different places. You will read or listen to a selection call: “Neighborhoods, ” p. 4 Free Template from www. brainybetty. com 41