Decodability of practice texts. Teaching short u. System and pace in introducing correspondences. Phoneme awareness review. Afterwards students practice oral reading without instruction. Components of phonics lesson.
Students brainstorm rhymes with sun and other short-u words.
They read words chorally and spell from dictation. They are invited to build words independently with letter manipulatives without teacher guidance. Decodability of practice texts. After studying the short u correspondence, students read a partly predictable, partly decodable text on the seasons. Teaching long i signaled by silent e. System and pace in introducing correspondences.