Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 50
Name Cards Activity
If there are any students in the class whose names begin with ‘O’, follow the instructions
for the Name Cards Activity in Lesson 8, on page 21.
Note: Explain that names are spelled with a capital ‘O’. Some names begin with the long
sound of ‘O’, but that the ‘O’ has another sound that the class will learn later.
Letter Cards
• Open the Workbook to pages 41and 45.
• Have students carefully remove the ‘O’ and ‘o’ Letter Cards.
• Ask what the difference between the big ‘O’ and the small ‘o’ is. (They look the
same but, one is big and one is small.)
• Say: Hold up big ‘O’. Hold up small ‘o’.
• Have students trace the letters with their fingers, or draw the letter in the air or
on each other's backs.
ABC Poster, Mural, Song and Chant
• Have a student point to the letters ‘Oo’ on the poster.
• Chant with the class the ‘O’ Chant (track 17): The letter is ‘O’. The sound is /ŏ/.
The word is ‘on', the word is 'off’. Do the ‘on/off’ action.
• Hold up the mural piece for ‘Oo’.
• Ask where they think the letter ‘Oo’ goes? (the middle of the alphabet)
• Hang up the mural piece.
• Sing the ABC Song (track 7). Do the actions for the letters they have learned.
Workbook (page 21)
Open the Workbook to page 21.
Activity 1
• Have students take out their plasticine. Have them roll two logs to cover the ‘O’s at the
top of the page.
• Have students color the letters at the top of the page, following the direction of the
arrows.
Activity 2
• Draw a small ‘o’ on the Letter House poster. Ask students where small ‘o’ lives. (in the
middle of the house)
• Draw a big ‘O’ on the Letter House poster. Ask where big ‘O’lives. (on the top floor and
in the middle of the house)
• Have students write rows of ‘Oo’s. As they draw each letter
students can say the sound /ŏ/ and the words ‘on/off’.
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