LITERACY HOUR LESSON Plan WRITING
LITERACY HOUR LESSON Plan WRITING
LITERACY HOUR LESSON Plan WRITING
LESSON DEVELOPMENT:
A. OPENING
Step 1: Read Aloud: The teacher will expressively read a short story that has words with short
vowel sounds:
B. READING & RESPONDING
Step 2: Introducing Vocabulary:
The teacher will ask students to talk about any sound they may have been able to identify
from listening to the short passage read.
The teacher will introduce vocabulary from the story on flashcards by showing students
the words with the short vowel sound “a”, and having them call the words.
The teacher will use the words in sentences and then ask students to use the words in
their own sentences.
Step 3: Teaching a Reading Strategy: The teacher will teach the reading strategy called
“Group Letters That Make Sounds Together.” Students will be encouraged to be flexible about
vowel sounds – try one, then another – until they read a word that sounds like a word they have
heard or that makes sense in the sentence.
TRICKY VOWELS: THESE VOWELS CAN MAKE MORE THAN ONE SOUND
(Teach the sound: synthetic)
a alarm acorn
Let students then give their own examples of words that have short vowel sounds. (Teach the
sound: analytic)
Step 7: (Segmentation): The teacher will say to the students, “In some words such as “cap,” you
can hear /a/ in the middle, while in others such as “at”, you hear it at the beginning. The teacher
then asks students to listen to some words and say if they hear the particular vowel sound at the
beginning, middle, or end.
Step 8: (Association & Visual Discrimination): The teacher tells students that they are now
going to look for the letters we pronounce as short vowel “a” sound. Students review the short
vowel sound of “a”.
Step 9: (Reading): The teacher will say to the students: “Now, let’s read some words using the
short vowel sound of the letter “a”. The teacher will print a one-syllable word such as “bat” on
the board. The teacher will remind students that they already know the sounds “b” and “t” and
will model sequential decoding, saying the sounds together, and quickly moving her hand along
the/m/a/t/. The teacher will then write several words on the board and ask students to decode
them sequentially. The teacher will invite students to make oral sentences with the words they
have decoded. The teacher will also write some of the oral sentences on the board and students
can read the sentences from the board.
E. EXTENDING
Step 12: Independent Writing:
Students will write two sentences in their journals containing words with the short
vowel sound of “a” using phonetic skills.
CLOSURE: Students will review the short vowel sound by completing a worksheet:
STUDENTS’ ASSESSMENT: The teacher will assess students’ spelling of the given words and
assess their ability to independently read this short passage:
TEACHER EVALUATION: The teacher will assess the students at the end of the lesson.