© by Vista Higher Learning, Inc. All rights reserved. | TG P-68 | Connect to Phonics PLUS Teacher Guide C • Write sentences with high frequency words Review the pronunciation and spelling of all five high frequency words: around, know, play, read, where. Explain to children that they should write a sentence with each word. Remind them to begin the sentence with a capital letter and end it with appropriate end punctuation: a period, an exclamation point, or a question mark. Have them review “The Play Hut” to see how the words were used in the story. Model the example and read the sentence aloud: I like to play in the snow. Answers: Children’s answers will vary. Page P-108 D • Read on-level text with understanding Explain that children will read sentences that name events from “The Play Hut.” They will number the events in the order they happen in the story. Read all five sentences aloud and have children repeat. Reread “The Play Hut.” Ask: Which happens first? Look through your books to check. Explain that “The girls are hot in the sun” should be first. Say: The older girl says this on Page P-2. This is how the story begins. So this sentence should be numbered number one. Model writing a 1 on the line. Ask: What’s next? Which sentence should be numbered number two? Have children number the sentences in order and identify the pages in “The Play Hut” that help them. Answers: a. 2, b. 5, c. 1, d. 4, e. 3 E • Spell words with short vowel sounds Review the sound of each vowel in the Letters to Use box. Point to the example and say: This sentence has a word that is missing a letter. The word begins with t and ends with g. What word can we make that is in “The Play Hut”? Model adding all five vowels to make new words. Ask: Is it tag, teg, tig, tog, or tug? Only two of those are real words: tag and tug. And one of those is in the story: tag. Write the letter a on the line to complete the word. Say the word again as you trace your finger beneath the letters, first segmenting each sound and then saying the word fluently. Then have children complete the activity, segmenting the sounds and saying each word aloud. Answers: 1. u (sun), o (hot) 2. u (hut) 3. a (vans), u (rug) 4. o (pots), a (pans) 5. i (sit) Differentiated Instruction • Scaffold After you model, have children chorally read the decodable words and high frequency words on the back cover of “The Play Hut.” Have partners or groups of three think of and say a sentence using one or more of the words. • Amplify Challenge children to write new sentences with words that have a short vowel sound. Partners should check each other’s work for spelling mistakes. Show What You Know Informal assessment Use an exit ticket activity to review decodable and high frequency words. Read a Page P-from “The Play Hut” and then ask children to spell a word from that page. For example, say: We can not run around. How do you spell around? Repeat this process several times to assess different words.
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