Stick To It

Unit 5Lesson 5

Unit 5Objectives

•Students will produce rhymes.•Students will identify syllables in words.•Students will locate and blend the final consonant sounds /m/ and /s/.•Students will review the names of the letters of the alphabet.•Students will begin to attain mastery in attaching the /a/ sound to the letter As.

Warming UpUse one or both of warm-ups

Find the Rhyme.Display the Big Book, Pickled Peppers, open to the poem “By

Myself”Asks students to say other words that rhyme with twin and chin

(bin, fin grin, kin, pin, tin, win). Say the following sets of words:joys boil boyssong long singbread pies eyesbrown gown blue

Warming UpUse one or both of warm-ups

Review Syllables.Compound WordsPicture Cards (Sample: cook, book; cat, fish; eye, ball; horse,

shoe; sun, flower; yard, sticks; bed, post.Ask students to say each picture name, then say them

together: cookbook

Students should tell how the meaning of the word is different from the meaning of each separate word, cook and book.

Repeat with other Picture Cards to make compound words.

Phonemic AwarenessOral Blending

Final Consonant Isolation

Final Sounds

Asks students to listen to the final sound in each set.

kiss gas missrim stem farm

Puppet: I’m thinking of something that ends with /m/.It rhymes with gum.It makes music.What is it?

Students: /m/, mTeacher: What was the puppet

thing of?Students: A drum!Continue…ham dress storm bus

Alphabetic Principle

Alphabet Review• Alphabet Flash Cards & Alphabet Song & CheerThe Sound of Aa• Reviewing Aa

I’m Pam the lamb, I am.This is how I tell the farmer where I am:/a/ /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/. I’m Pam the lamb, I am.This is how I tell my friends where I am: /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/ /a/.

Listening for /a/ at the Beginning of words.

Students give a thumbs up for the word that they hear the initial sound of /a/.

at if of am oven axIn as after even under itan old egg add act answerask ant ill end apple up

Linking the Sound to the Letter

Spelling and Writing AaInvite students to write the letter in the air.

Sounds and Letters• Sounds and Letters Skills Workbook pages 66-67.

Investigating Concepts Beyond the Text

Objectives:• Students will listen attentively to follow diretions for

completing a unit project.• Students will generate questions to get information about

perseverance.• Students will use materials from the school library and

computer resources to gather information about perseverance.

Read a book form the Leveled Classroom Library.Students will draw a picture and write a story about times in

school that they have used perseverance.