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Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations Lesson PlanLesson 7 - Letter Combinations Lesson Plan
Publisher
Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk, University of Texas at Austin
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3rd - 6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Duration
1 day
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Year
2010
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Lesson 7 - Letter Combinations

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Individually, letters have their own sounds, but when combined with other letters, those sounds completely change. Introduce letter combinations with a lesson that asks learners to search for combinations in familiar words and use oral and kinesthetic methods to practice identifying and pronouncing words with specific letter combinations.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

phonics, blending sounds, consonant sounds, vowel sounds

Additional Tags

english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use the suggested order of instruction on page 118 of the lesson to help guide the introduction of sounds
  • Create special books out of folded paper to serve as spelling options notebooks and allow spellers to decorate the covers

Classroom Considerations

  • Requires some letter cards from previous lessons
  • Seventh lesson in the Word Recognition and Fluency series of 17

Pros

  • Shares quick tips at the end of each activity
  • Brings in simple games, such as Go Fish

Cons

  • Contains a large amount of information without some basic structural components, such as time limits

Common Core

RF.K.3.b

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