Language Arts - Grade 1 TEKS 1.8B - Using Common Spelling Patterns to Read Words by Sheila Davis

Category:  Language Arts
Grade Level:  1st Grade
Objective: 

Language Arts TEKS 1.8B  Reading/word identification. The student uses a variety of word identification strategies. The student is expected to: use common spelling patterns to read words.
 

Music TEKS 1.6A  Response/Evaluation. 
The student responds to and evaluates music and musical performance.  The student is expected to: distinguish between beat/rhythm, higher/lower, louder/softer, faster/slower, and same/different in musical performances.

Behavioral Objective:
The students will participate in writing and reading words ending with -at.

Materials: 
White boards, markers, and letter cards.

Activities: 
Introduce the lesson by pronouncing the -at chunk for students.  Spell the word hat using the letter cards, and ask the children for other words that end with -at.  Change the letter at the beginning of the word, and have all the children write the words on their white boards and read the words together.  Make a list of all the words the children spell with the chunking pattern -at.  For example: (1) cat, (2) pat, (3) rat.

Process:

• Say the words as a class.

• Divide the class into three sections.  Assign a different word to each group.

• Say the words in the three groups starting with the one syllable word.  Layer all three words.

• Add body percussion to words.

• Drop words, body percussion alone.

High	Caught a rat	Clap
Middle	Pit Pat	Pat
Low	Cat	Stomp

Evaluation: 
I will observe to see that every child participated in writing and reading the -at words on the white boards.  I will ask the students which of the three parts was the loudest and which was the softest.