1a Sound Drill

These short videos are best looked at with a lesson plan in front of you, 

This is the student's fourth lesson, and we are working on Lesson 1.1. Prior to these lessons, he has never had any formal reading instruction.

We are starting small -- just working with the short vowel A, and a few consonants.

I start off the Sound Drill reviewing the Key Word Page, because he needs that extra aid.

Then we go to the tiles, and he does the same thing from the tile letter A.

I make sure he makes the movement. This comes in handy later, as you'll see.

1b Reverse Sound Drills

You'll notice I don't correct everything. He says "D make duh."

I could correct his verb agreement, and I could ask him to cut off the extra sounds at the end of /d/. (It's /d/, not duh.)

But I am trying to stay focused on the sound drill. We have enough fish to fry, and I'll get to those things later.

Some of you saw videos of an earlier lesson with this student. He's improved, right?!

1c Writing

We have this extra challenge: this student does not know how to write his letters.

We have been working on writing outside of these lessons, but within the phonics lesson we just deal with it as it comes. I model for him, and guide him. And we keep going.

2a Reading Words with Tiles

As always, I am tailoring the lesson to his needs:

- Starting out by asking him to say the sounds, one at a time, which he is still shaky on.

- THEN going to tapping and blending when needed.

- Only using a few words within our already limited choice of letters: mat, sat, fat, rat.

- Later in the lesson, because he’s doing well, we add N and then D.