Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 71
Body Shape
• With your left hand, make a ‘c’ shape with your fingers and thumb.
• With your right hand, make a straight, horizontal line with your fingers closed together.
• Slide the right hand fingers into the opening of the ‘c’ shape in the left hand to make
the letter ‘e’.
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Chant with the class: The letter is ‘E’. The sound is /ĕ/. The word is ‘elephant’.
While keeping your hands in the ‘e’ shape, wave your right arm and elbow like an
elephant’s trunk.
Eggs for Lunch
• Hold up the hardboiled egg and ask: What is this? (an egg) What sound do you hear
at the beginning of ‘egg’? (/ĕ/)
• Draw a small letter ‘e’ on the board. Chant: The letter is ‘E’. The sound is /ĕ/. The word
is ‘egg’.
• Draw a small letter ‘e’ on the egg.
• Crack the egg and try to open it with your thumbs pushing the center of the egg, as if
it were raw. Say: /ĕ/ /ĕ/ /ĕ/ egg.
• Have students do the action while saying: /ĕ/ /ĕ/ /ĕ/ egg.
• Draw several eggs on the board. In the middle of one egg, draw a small ‘e’.
• Have students come up to draw ‘e’s in the other eggs.
Name Cards Activity
• If there are any students in the class whose names begin with the short sound of ‘E’,
follow the Name Cards Activity in Lesson 8, on page 21.
• If a name begins with the long sound of ‘e’, then explain that the name does begin with
the letter is ‘E’, but that it has a different sound that we will learn later.
Letter Cards
• Open the Workbook to pages 41 and 43.
• Have students carefully remove the ‘E’ and ‘e’ Letter Cards.
• Now tell them to take out the Letter Cards for ‘Ll’ and ‘Cc’ and to line them up on their
tables with the big and small letters in pairs, i.e. ‘Ee’, ‘Ll’, ‘Cc’.
• Say: Point to the letter ‘L’. Chant together with the class: The letter is ‘L’. The sound is
/l/. The words is ‘look’. The word is ‘listen’. Do the appropriate actions.
• Repeat for the letters ‘C’ and ‘E’.
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