Unit X | 171 Connect to Phonics | 165F UNIT 5 Connect to Phonics Differentiated Instruction Scaffold • Use a kinesthetic strategy to represent the beginning, middle, and end of words. Tap your opposite shoulder when speaking the initial sound. Slide your hand down your arm to represent the rest of the word. Pause to tap your elbow for the middle sound and continue sliding and tap your wrist for the ending sound. Have children try this as they sound out the words. • Language transfer and interference Arabicspeaking children may have difficulty with /q/ and may substitute /k/. Spanish speakers may use the /s/ sound for /z/ and /b/ for /v/. Mirror back the English pronunciation using the words from the text. Amplify For children who are already familiar with these sounds, have them assist a peer in repeating the words and stretching out the sounds. Do not be overly concerned about perfect English pronunciation; this comes with time. Differentiated Instruction Scaffold Offer added examples with images. Amplify Challenge children to generate additional words using the c-v-c-e phonics pattern for long a. Long vowel: a • Recognize long vowels and use English spelling patterns Write the letters a, e, i, o, and u on the board. Say: What are these? (vowels) We already learned short vowel sounds. When a vowel says its name—as in a makes sound of /a/ and e says /e/— that’s the long vowel sound. • Note there is a phonics rule to spell the long vowel sounds. Teach the silent e pattern as follows: Point to the word tape. Write tap on the board. Say: We know this is the word tap. (Sound out the c-v-c.) When we add -e, the vowel a becomes long. The e is silent—it makes no sound. The word is tape. • Preview face, rake and say them aloud. Offer additional long a c-v-c-e examples (gate, game, name, etc.) Focus on the long vowel a and remind children e is silent. A Model filling in the missing vowels for the word tape. Say: I see silent e here at the end, I see a picture of tape. I will write in the vowel a. Read the word chorally stretching out the long a sound. Have children complete the same for face and rake. ANSWERS 1. face 2 rake B Model how to change a short vowel word to a long vowel by adding silent e. Example: mad → made. Have children add silent e to make a new word. ANSWERS 1. cane; 2. cape; 3. tape; 4. plane PRACTICE
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