Content Focus: Literacy focus specifically on vocabulary words, sight words, words for review, high frequency words

Language Focus:

• Speaking: using the words in a sentence properly.
• Listening: hearing the words in a sentence or hearing how to stretch a word to match the sounds to letters.
• Reading: easily reading the words in guided books or independent books.
• Writing: using the words in personal writings or stories that are wrote.

 

Vocabulary Focus:

• Snap Words/ High Frequency Words/ Sight Words: the words we need to know in order to speak, read and write fluently.
• Elkonin Boxes: A tool that we use to stretch words by their sounds to easily learn to read and write words.
• Review: A way to look at something already learned and build upon that prior knowledge.

 

Standards:

• RF.K.2: Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes (sounds).
• RF.K.3: Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words.
• L.K.6: Demonstrate contextually appropriate use of the conventions of standardized English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
• With guidance and support, participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners about topics and texts with peers and adults in small and larger groups

 

Arts Integration: Students use materials of their choice to create their snap word (sight word/high frequency word). Students can then add their word to the class crossword puzzle, choosing how it might interlace with other snap words (same letters in common).

Lesson Objectives:

• I can read snap words.
• I can write snap words.
• I can use a snap word in a verbal sentence.

 

Activities:

• Review snap words by reading them or using them in a sentence: snap words in a slideshow for reading; sentences prepared that include snap words for reading; review snap words with Elkonin boxes.
• Discuss how words are always connected with one another: used in sentences, can help us spell other words, we use them to tell stories, etc.
• Model connecting the words physically in a crossword puzzle-like way. Use Elkonin Boxes to model how we spell the words and the sounds that they make. Then show the students how words can be fun and easy to remember when we connect to them.
• Start with having the student pick a snap word they would like to connect with. Then work with the student to stretch the snap word sounds and spell it out using Elkonin boxes. Next, have the student pick what material they would like to create their snap word with. Then have the student work to glue on their chosen material for creating their snap word.
• Review the words that were used to create the chart. Talk about how we learn these words because they are important, they help us read and write, and we see them every day in everything that we do.

 

Engagement/Introduction: Begin with a simple way to review the words that are being studied. This may be words around the circle activity where one student names a word in review and the next either describes it or spells it and then you continue this around the circle. This may also be reading snap words that are flashed across the screen.

Assessment Procedure: Students are assessed on their ability to use the words in a sentence, spell the words, or read the words once they are all completed (or prior during the introduction activity).

Materials: Elkonin Boxes, Markers, Scissors, Glue; Letter materials: mini pom poms, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, buttons, google eyes, etc.

Supporting Documents: Lesson Plan, Presentation

Contact: Becca Beschta, Cindy Keberlein