I sat in on an elementary level reading class yesterday where the teacher started the lesson by priming students to recall vocabulary from the previous class (example: what is a baby dog? -puppy). Everything touched upon during lesson was written on the board so that the students could know the spelling. They then practiced saying what day and month and year it was in a full sentence in order to write the date as a full sentence on the board.
Following this class introduction, students were taught how to mark sounds in words when learning how to read. They were then taught different sounds vowels make by showing examples of words on the board. The students learned that if a word with one vowel is followed by a consonant, it is a short word (phonics rule #1). Students then had to read a paragraph and go to the board and underline the words that follow phonics rule 1.
The next activity was to read a story that had lots of nominal information. They were then presented with a chart where they had to fill in the names, jobs, ages, and color of hair of the characters in the story. The teacher helped them get started by filling out the first column on the board, but then they had to complete the rest on their own. The teacher walked around the room to make sure that the students were understanding and then they revised some of the answers on the board.
As the final activity, the teacher passed around Nole News article about St. Patrick's day and had students follow along as she read them the history of the holiday. The class was over shortly after and she wrote down what they had covered in class that day so that students could have a reference of what has already been covered in class.
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