A Small Group Reading Lesson

The Learning Center - Memorial Middle School - Beverly, MA

Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework

General Standard 7: Beginning Reading

Learning Standard 7.2 Demonstrate orally that phonemes exit and that they can be isolated and manipulated:

á Understand that a sound is a phoneme, or one distinct sound

á Understand that words are made up of one or more syllables

á Recognize and produce rhyming words

á Identify the initial, medial, and final sounds of a word

á Blend sounds to make words

Essential Question: What is a word?

Unit question: How can sounds in a word be cut off and changed?

Lesson Objective:

At the end of this lesson, the students will be able to manipulate phonemes, identify individual sounds, and identify sound blends

Materials needed:

White board

Dry erase markers

Activity: Word Ladders

Tier 1

Tier 2

Tier 3

Tier 1

- Students will manipulate phonemes and identify individual sounds using c-v-c (three letter) words

- They are presented with a ãbeginning wordä and have to make changes to the c-v-c combination (three letter words) until they can reach the ãend wordä

Example:

pen

dad

Student response:

pen

men

man

can

dan

dad

- Students will manipulate phonemes and identify individual sounds using four letter words

- They are presented with a ãbeginning wordä and have to make changes to the four letter word until they can reach the ãend wordä

Example:

love

hate

Student response:

love

lone

lane

late

hate

- Students will manipulate phonemes and identify individual sounds using words with sound blends

- They are presented with a ãbeginning wordä and have to make changes to the words with sound blends until they can reach the ãend wordä

Example:

brush

cream

Student response:

Brush

crush

cream

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