When lesson planning for phonics, I always go, “Wah wah,” because it’s so routine. We use our curriculum flash cards and my
PowerPoint presentations, but it’s always the same thing day after day.
So when I came across Miss Giraffe's Instagram post
for sorting the sounds of
(You can check out how she uses this sort on her blog at http://missgiraffesclass.blogspot.com/ )
While I supplement my phonics curriculum
with fun books and activities here and there, I struggle to jazz up every
lesson because of having to fit in and make time for the other portions of the
curriculum.
BUT THIS?! Well, I knew I could make this happen in our
phonics lesson for our second go around with suffixes.
We started the usual way: reviewing our
special sounds we have already learned and introducing the new ones to our
list. I always like to bring the drama,
so here’s what I said:
“Today, the new special sounds we are
adding are all spelled the same!” [gasps]
“Isn’t the English language crazy?!
These special sounds also have another name. Do you remember what they are called? SUFFIXES!”
After reviewing where these sounds come
in a word and what makes them suffixes, we got to work.
First, we read the words chorally and
took turns circling the suffixes on the board.
Next, students volunteered to use the words in their own sentences. After about 5 students, I thought aloud
saying, “I noticed that the ending sound of those words all look the same pointing to the board), but
sounded differently (pointing to my ear). Did anyone else
notice that? Let’s listen again.”
Finally, it was time to put Miss
Giraffe’s product to work!
They were so excited to use materials
that they don’t normally get to use in phonics lessons like scissors and glue!
[For 2nd
graders, it’s the little things!]
What is nice about this activity is that
it allowed me to circle the room checking in with my little friends who needed
some differentiation!
Students who were not initially hearing the difference between the 3 sounds /ed/ makes now had a new job: lightly coloring the different sounds to better help them sort the words into the 3 columns.
Students who were not initially hearing the difference between the 3 sounds /ed/ makes now had a new job: lightly coloring the different sounds to better help them sort the words into the 3 columns.
Because these suffixes LOOK the same,
color coding helped students SEE the sounds they are HEARING. I casually marked their pages with the
color code and they were on their way to success!
Don’t think I forgot about those early
finishes though!
While visiting Miss Giraffe’s Teachers Pay Teachers store, I also snagged some of her reading
fluency & comprehension passages. In
this
FREE passage,
students were able to practice reading the /ed/ sounds in context while also letting me
concretely monitor their comprehension skills!
Next up!
We’ll practice writing verbs using /ed/…oh and I have a fun little song for
those irregular verbs…but that’s a blog post for a later date!
And that was only a single page from Miss Giraffe's $2 Grammar Bundle! The other pages in this bundle are pictured below and build nicely together!
Thanks Miss Giraffe for the
complete package! Xoxo
What are your favorite products
from Miss Giraffe’s store? Leave me a
comment below, I’d love to learn how you use her stuff to bring your lessons to
life!
If you haven't visited her blog yet, you should definitely check it out! She has tons of great ideas and resources modeled there!
Great post!! Thank you for sharing!! I hope it helped them learn those tricky sounds of -ed words! :)
ReplyDeleteIt definitely did! We can't wait to use the other pages of the grammar bundle too! xoxo
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