These teaching plans have been edited for online content. There are
references to activity books and cards that are only available in the
print packages. The CD-ROMs and online content are identical; only
the delivery method is different.
Guided Learning
Read the Text
After the Reading
• Provide time for students to read the book on their
own to find out more about what the boy saw.
Remind students to use the illustrations and the initial
letters to help them figure out new words.
• Circulate and observe how students are applying
strategies.
Does the child
– use the illustrations and the text to help read;
– use initial letters to confirm predictions;
– use ending letters to confirm predictions?
• Ask students to describe the things the boy saw on the
walk. Talk about how some things can look like others
and ask students to give examples.
• Have students identify any problem words or parts they
encountered in reading the text. Work together as a
group to solve the problems, using appropriate strategies.
• Explore the online text, noting the animations. Ask
students which things in the illustrations they would like
to animate.
Phonics
Recognize -alk Word Family
use word family patterns as visual cues for reading and spelling words
TEACH
• Write the word walk on the board and ask students what they notice about the spelling
of the word. Have them identify the silent letter. Introduce the Phonics Card 27.
• Ask students if they know any other words that have -alk with the l being silent
(e.g. talk, chalk, stalk). Give clues to help them to generate words. Discuss the meaning of each word.
APPLY Students could
– draw a picture of a person and write the word walk a number of times around the feet and the
word talk around the mouth;
– make a list of -alk words.
Independent and Small Group Learning
Work on Spelling Game
Find -alk Words
spell content and high-frequency
words
use word family patterns as visual
cues
Students work on the Spelling Game.
A passage of text appears on the screen.
They select five words at a time from 15
highlighted words, then spell them. At
the end of the task they can print out the
certificate as a record of their achievement.
Focus words for The Walk are saw, looked,
backs, sleeping, walked, across, quietly,
wouldn’t, wake, people, climbing, high, rock,
ropes, help.
Students use Be a Word Detective
Task Card (8) to record -alk words.
WEEK 2
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