Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 56
Big ‘A’
• Draw a big ‘A’ on the board. Tell students that this is big ‘A’.
• Ask them what shapes make a big ‘A’. (3 lines)
• Ask: Does big ‘A’ look like small ‘a’? (no) What is the same and what is different? (One
is big, one is small. Big ‘A’ has three straight lines and no circles. Small ‘a’ has a partcircle and one line)
Name Cards Activity
If there are any students in the class whose names begin with ‘A’, follow the instructions
for the Name Cards Activity in Lesson 8, on page 21.
Ask: Does a name begin with a big ‘A’ or a small ‘a’? (big) Look at the other Name Cards
that students have. Note that they all begin with a big letter.
Letter Cards
• Open the Workbook to pages 41 and 43.
• Have students carefully remove the ‘A’ and ‘a’ Letter Cards.
• Tell students to take out their Letter Cards for ‘V’, ‘v’ and ‘C’, ‘c’ and chant the letter
chants with them.
Game: What is the letter?
• Tell students to take out their Letter Cards for ‘A’, ‘a’, ‘V’, ‘v’ and ‘C’, ‘c’.
• Have students sit in pairs, mix up their Letter Cards, ‘and put them in a pile in front of
them.
• Tell player #1 to show one card to player #2 and say: What letter is this?
• Player #2 must say both the letter name, the sound it makes and the word. If player
#2 is correct, he takes the card. If not, player #1 puts the card back at the bottom of
his pile.
• When player #1 has shown all six Letter Cards the game is over. Students now switch
roles and play the game again.
ABC Poster, Mural and Song
• Point to the letters ‘Aa’ on the poster.
• Chant: The letter is ‘A’. The sound is /a/. The word is ‘apple’. Do the ‘apple’ action.
• Hold up the mural piece for ‘Aa’.
• Ask students where they think the ‘Aa’ goes. (at the beginning of the alphabet)
• Hang up the mural piece.
• Sing the ABC Song (track 7). Do the actions for the letters that they have learned.
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