Teacher's Guide - Letterland

© Letterland International Limited. All rights reserved.DAY 1You will need• Picture Code Cards (PCCs)Review plus b, c, f, l. n, p,r, s, t, v, y/ē/, ch• Word cards for Unit 36, ListA, B, or C• Copies of Student List forUnit 36• Highlighters, chalk, ormarkersPreparation• Display the sentences forWord Detectives at child-levelThe boy called Royenjoys noisy toys.[Say in a hoarse whisper:]I enjoyed making noiseat the game, but itspoiled my voice.More Day 1 ActivitiesIndependent/Partner• Write and mark up words(p 13).Homework• Read words and sentencestwo times (p 28).Whole ClassPhonic concept review (p 7)Day 1• Display the picture sides of the ow (/ou/ sound) and the ou PCCs. Havechildren tell the story and sound of each. Then call out these words and havechildren tell which pair of letters each word is spelled with. Alternatively,have children write the words on white boards and show them on a cuefrom you.Words: now, down, mouth, shout, how, cloud, brown, soundIntroduce concepts on the pocket chart (p 7)PCCs: b, c, l, n, o, t, r, oi, oyWords: Roy, toy, boy, boil, coin, point, oil, spoil• Display the plain letter side of the oy and oi PCCs. Today we are goingto meet a new Letterlander. He is a boy called Roy. He has aspecial game he likes to play. Sometimes he plays it with Yo-yoMan and sometimes with Mr. I.• Turn the oy to the picture side Look at what Roy is doing. He’s playingleap-frog right over that o and jumping into Yo-yo Man’s sack.Does that look like fun? When he jumps he yells out, “Oy!” Yo-yoMan pretends to be annoyed and shouts, “Oy!” at the exactsame time. Let’s all say /oy/: “/oy/.”• Turn to the plain letter oy side. So, when we see these letters we saywhat Roy and Yo-yo Man say, and that is /oy/. Push the cardforward a few times and have children say the sound each time you do:“/oy/ /oy/ /oy/...”• Let’s act this story out with a partner. One partner is Roy, whostands behind Yo-yo Man. Roy, put your hands on Yo-yo Man’sshoulders. Then just jump up in place and both of you say “Oy!”Let’s do it three more times. “Oy, oy, oy!” Tell the children playing YoyoMan that they will get to play the part of Roy in a moment.• Make the oy words for children to sound out. After you build each word,write it on the board in in a column under “oy.”• Show the picture side of the oi PCC. Roy also likes to play his OyGame with Mr. I just like with Yo-yo Man. So Roy leap-frogs overthe o and he and Mr. I both say, “Oy!” at the same time.• Now, the partner who was Yo-yo Man gets to be Roy. Standbehind the back of your partner, who is Mr. I. Roy jumps up anddown. What do you both say...? Yes, /oy/ Let’s do it three times.• Show the plain letter side of oi. Push it forward as children repeat the sound.• Make boil for finger sounding. Discuss the meaning of boil.UNIT 36 147