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Jennifer Walden

Vowel Sounds

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TEKS Met through letter Identification and Vowel sounds

• 1.7 Reading/letter-sound relationships. The student uses letter-sound knowledge todecode written language. The student is expected to:(A) name and identify every letter of the alphabet (K-1);(B) understand that written words are composed of letters that representsounds (K-1);(C) learn and apply letter-sound correspondences of a set of consonants and vowels to begin to read (K-1);

• 1.8 Reading/word identifications. The student uses a variety of word identificationstrategies. The student is expected to:(A) decode by using all letter-sound correspondences within a word (1-3);(B) use common spelling patterns to read words (1);

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Unit Question• What is a vowel?

• What sound does a vowel make?

Skills Students will gainThe students will learn how to

recognize and vowel and the sound the vowel makes within a word.

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Student should identify what vowels are and the sound the vowel makes to create a word.

Blooms Taxonomy:Know

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Vowel Sound A

Cat = C + A + TShort A sound

Cake = C + A + K + E

Long A sound

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Vowel Sound E

Long E Sound

Me = M +E

Egg = E + G + GShort E

sound

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Vowel Sound I

Long i sound

Short i sound

it = i + t

kite = k+i+t+e

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Vowel Sound O

Short O Sound

Long O Sound

Hot = H + O + T

HOME = H + o + m + e

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Vowel Sound U

Short U sound

Long U Sound

BUG = B + U + G

TUBE = T + u + b + e

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Sometimes Y . . .

Shy = i sound

Away = A sound

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Activity

• Our activity would be in a computer lab playing vowel games on the PBS.com website or Picture Match.com

• Also once back in the classroom working on their own there would be a cut and paste worksheet similar to the games played online.

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Computer interactive games to help learn reading…..

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/

• There are three games on this website in which you and your student can play.

• Game One: Beginning Letter Sound: The student is shown pictures and has to match the pictures to the correct beginning letter down below.

• Game Two: Short Vowel Sounds: The student is shown a series of pictures and has to match the short vowel sound to the vowel letter below.

• Game Three: Long Vowel Sounds: The student will be shown a picture that he or she must match to the long vowel letter below.

• The students are asked to identify all the short letter vowels out of many words and place them in a bucket. The students can also pick a game where they have to identify all the long vowel sounds.

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html

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Works Cited. . .

• Picture Maker Word Games

– http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch

• Texas TEKS

– http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/First_Grade.pdf

– http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/Kindergarten.pdf

• PBS Learning

– http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html