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Use the activity in the Interactive Text, page 12, to help students identify the positions
of designated sounds in words.
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Ask students where they hear the short / a / sound in the following words:
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at
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cat
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tab
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am
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bat
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Have students:
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Place an X in the box to represent the correct position of the sound in
Exercise 1,
Listening for Sounds in Words.
Letter-Sound
Fluency
WhyDo:
Develops accurate and automatic retrieval of sound-symbol associations.
HowTo:
Time
Letter-Sound Fluency for one minute. Repeat. Record the sounds
per minute for both trials in the Interactive Text.
Students work with a peer partner to time and listen to the
Letter-Sound
Fluency.
Record the sounds per minute for both trials.
Note: Use a timer for this activity. Goal setting is discussed in Assessment: Teacher
Edition.
Use the Interactive Text, page 268, to develop automatic letter-sound recognition.
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Have students:
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Work with a peer partner to listen to and time
Letter-Sound Fluency in the
Interactive Text, page 268.
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Record the sounds per minute on the
Letter-Sound Fluency Chart in the
Interactive Text, page 320.
What is the origin of the letter
a? Read Why? Word History in
the Student Text, page 9, to students to find out.
W
ord
H
istor
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InteractiveText
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Materials
Interactive Text
p. 268, Letter-
Sound Fluency
Letter-Sound
Fluency Chart
Timer