• listening to and creating variations on books and songs with rhyming or alliteration

• sorting pictures, objects, and written words by a sound or sounds

• activities that involve segmenting sounds in words

• activities that involve blending sounds in words

• daily opportunities to write meaningful texts in which they listen for the sounds in words to estimate their spellings

• Read The Hungry Thing by Jan Slepian
• Students will predict what the Hungry Thing would like to eat
• After reading, create a classbook with your students. Maybe titled, The Hungry Children. Students can generate ideas of foods they would like to eat and change the beginnng sound to make a silly word!

Mrs. Pagogna is hungry for farshmellows. So I gave her some marshmellows!

I like to eat mizza. Mrs. Pagogna gave me pizza.

Read the article Phonics Faux Pas: Avoiding Instructional Missteps in Teaching Letter-Sound Relationships. Think about your purpose for instruction of letter names and sounds. What you want students to do independently in reading and writing? Are we being intentional in our instruction to get them there?

September Edition- Essential 1: Motivation and Engagement

October Edition- Essential 3: Small Group Instruction

Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday at Weston

Wednesday 1/2 day at Torrey Hill and 1/2 day at West Shore

Friday at West Shore

Email: spagogna@geneseeisd.org
Location: Genesee Intermediate School District, West Maple Avenue, Flint, MI, USA
Phone: 810-394-2431