ACQUISITION LESSON PLAN for
Grade K-1
Unit: During Reading
Topic: Decoding Strategies – Lesson 4 of 5
Concept: Slide and Blend
Essential Question:
How can I blend letter sounds and chunks to help me when I read?
Activating Strategy:
Teacher begins the lesson with chunks that are known to the students from
the “Using Chunks” EATS lesson. Teacher draws a sliding board on the
board and uses magnetic letters to demonstrate sliding the initial sound or
blend down the slide to connect with the rest of the word.
Fr-ed; h- am; th-at, st-and, s-it, ch- in, sh-ed,
Accelerating/Preview: (Key Vocabulary)
slide
blend
Teaching Strategies:
Direct Teaching:
The teacher slides his/her finger under the word to model the slide the
slide and blend strategy and says, “If I can read / pl/ and I can read –an, I
can read plan. If I can read /sm/ and I can read –all, I can read small.
Teacher can continue modeling sliding using the following words: duck,
shell, mop, brush, sing, drop, snore, bump, more, slug.
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Shared Demonstration:
Each student, in turn, models sliding his/her finger to read a word on
the white board or chart paper. (Teacher can use any words with
letters, sounds and chunks know to students.)
Distributed Guided Practice:
Gallery Walk Strategy:
The teacher should use colored markers and index cards to
write each word part in a different color on the card, with the
whole word written in black underneath. Some examples of
words to use are: smell, stick, blink, crash, clock, truck, play,
flame, shop, train, thump, chunk, chest, when, then, and which.
Post the word cards around the room. The students will move
around the room in a gallery walk, using clip boards. When
students read the word at each site, they write the word on
their clip boards, returning to their seats when completed.
stand
stand
Guide the students to read their word list to a partner.
Summarizing:
Option (1) Answer the EQ (see the attached sheet).
Option (2) Complete the “Match the Word Parts” activity (see
the attached sheet).
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How can I blend letter sounds
and chunks to help me when I
read?
1. Put my finger under the beginning of the
word.
2. Slide my finger and blend the letter
sounds and chunks together.
slide
+
3. Say the whole word.
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blend
Name_________________
Match the Word Parts
Draw lines to make real words.
m
ag
fl
ell
ch
ay
sm
in
Name_________________
Match the Word Parts
Draw lines to make real words.
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m
ag
fl
ell
ch
ay
sm
Name_________________
in
Answer the EQ
How can I blend letter sounds and chunks to help me
when I read?
Name_________________
Answer the EQ
How can I blend letter sounds and chunks to help me
when I read?
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