Reading Adventure #1	Reading Adventure #2

LESSON PLAN: Reading Adventure #2

Overview and Objectives

New Skills

Supporting Your Child's Reading

Using The Report Card

Overview

Lesson 2 has 28 items. Your child will read new words and develop an understanding of the meanings of the words in the context of sentences. Ducky LaT will continue to help your child read the words and sentences and prompt the reader to complete the work successfully.

Objectives

Based on studying illustrations and using sentence context, your child will have the opportunity to meet these objectives:

• Answer yes/no questions.
• Choose the word or phrase to complete a sentence.
• Choose a letter to complete a word.
• Choose a picture that goes with a sentence.

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New Skills

Your child will attain the skill to click on a picture to go with a sentence.

Words: pan, fan, cap

Preparation:

Play an "I See" game (a version of "I Spy") to help your child be sure of the meanings of the new words.

Materials:

• a sauce pan
• tan, red, and green crayons
• several objects that are tan in color (You might use a tan door mat or a tan pair of socks.)

"I See" for pan:

1. Place the pan on a mat. Name the pan by saying, "I see a pan. This is a pan."
2. Ask your child to show you the pan while saying "I see a pan."

"I See" for socks:

1. Place the socks on the mat and name the socks by saying, "I see socks. These are socks."
2. Ask your child to show you the socks by saying "I see socks."

Recall:

1. Place both the pan and the socks on the mat and help your child recall by pointing to each item and asking, "What do you see?"
2. Model for the child to respond with "I see a pan" and "I see socks."

"I See" for tan:

1. Print out three pictures of a pan.
2. Color one pan tan, one pan red, and one pan green.
3. Play "I See" for "I see a tan pan," "I see a red pan," and "I see a green pan."

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Supporting Your Child’s Reading

Auditory Support:

Emphasize auditory skills by asking your child to identify words that begin with the sounds for the letters m, t, p. Begin by naming words that begin with "mmm." Separate the beginning sound a little from the rest of the word. Explain that you will say a word that begins with "mmm" and that the child is to repeat the word after you. You might use man, mother, mountain, map, and march as examples.

Continue with the other letters. Whisper the sounds "ttt" and "ppp" and include them at the beginnings of words such as tan, tent, two and pan, puppy, pin.

Letters and Sounds:

Your child is now beginning to use words that have the letter p. Provide individual letter cards (or use the plastic letters from the Montessori Home Reading Advantage) for these letters: a, m, n, t, and p.

Lay the letters on a mat or other clearly designated plain surface.

1. Choose the letter p and say "ppp" in a whisper as you place it on the mat. Then ask your child to say the sound.
2. Choose the letter a and add it to the right of the p while saying "aaa." Ask your child to say the sound.
3. Choose the letter n and add it to pa while saying "nnn." Ask your child to say the sound.
4. Say the word pan slowly, emphasizing each letter sound.
5. Use the same procedure for the other letters, emphasizing each letter sound.
6. Ask your child to give the sound of each of the letters on the mat while saying the sound.

Words:

Help your child practice blending sounds together to make words. Use the same letter cards for a, m, n, t, and p.

1. Place the letters on the mat. Say the whole word pan by whispering the sounds slowly and blending them into the whole word.
2. Ask your child to do the same thing.
3. Use the same approach to make the words tan, man , and mat.
4. Invite the child to make words by combining the letters and to say the words.

Meaning:

Reinforce the meanings of these words by contrasting similar spellings: tan, man, pan, mat.

1. Form tan and man with plastic letters or write the words.
2. Ask questions about the words. For example, "Which word is for a person?" "Which word tells a color?"
3. Form man and mat with plastic letters or write the words.
4. Ask questions about the words. For example, "Which word is for something you can put things on?" "Which word means a person?"
5. Form tan and pan with plastic letters or write the words.
6. Ask questions about the words. For example, "Which word is for something to cook in?" "Which word tells a color?"

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Using the Report Card

You may wish to review the number of correct responses your child made in Lesson 2. The report card is intended to help you and the student observe success.

You can also observe any particular problems and work with your child to understand the reasons for incorrect responses. Some incorrect responses might be a result of clicking on the wrong answer by mistake. Or, they might show a lack of understanding of the task.

If there are several errors, it could be helpful for the child to repeat the lesson, to review the skills by using the activities above, or to use the Review Questions.

Reviewing

If you feel that your child could use review—or would enjoy review—before going on to the next lesson, use the Review Questions for this lesson.

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