Sand All Around

My SideWalksLevel B

Unit 1, Week 4, Day 1

Objectives

• Word Work: Phonemic Awareness: Segment Words into Sounds

• Phonics: Blend Words with short “e”• High Frequency Words: draw, sys,

picture, read /red/• Build Concepts: arid, landform,

precipitation• Read or Listen to a Passage: “Sand

All Around,” p. 74

Phonemic Awareness

legListen to the sounds in leg, /l/-/e/-/g/.

Now let’s say the sounds as I point to the letters

/l/-/e/-/g/, leg

Phonemic Awareness

/n/-/e/-/s/-/t/

Phonemic Awareness

/y/-/e/-/s/

Phonemic Awareness

/w/-/e/-/t/

Phonemic Awareness

/n/-/e/-/k/

Phonemic Awareness

/d/-/e/-/s/-/k/

Blending Strategy

pat, pit, and potYou already can read words like

these. What are the words? What is the vowel sound in pat? What is the vowel sound in pit? What is the vowel sound in pot? Now let’s look at another short

vowel sound.

Blending Strategy

This is an elephant. What sound do you hear at the beginning of elephant. Say it with me /e/. The

letter “e” can stand for /e/.

Blending Strategy

petIn this word, the letter “e” stand for /e/. This

is how I blend this word:

/p/-/e/-/t/, pet.

Blending Strategy

Let’s blend some words together.

Blending Strategy

/e/-/g/

Blending Strategy

/j/-/e/-/t/

Blending Strategy

/m/-/e/-/s/

Blending Strategy

/s/-/p/-/e/-/l/

Blending Strategy

/d/-/e/-/n/

Blending Strategy

Take out your white boards

and let’s write some words.

High Frequency Words

drawWhen you draw

something, you make a picture of it with pen,

pencil, or crayon.

High Frequency Words

eyeYour eye is the part of your body you use to

see.

High Frequency Words

pictureA picture is a drawing, photograph, or painting

of someone or something.

High Frequency Words

readHave you read that

book yet?

Oral Vocabulary

This week you will learn about the

desert. Listen for the Amazing

Words:arid, landform, and

precipitation

Amazing Words

aridvery dry

Amazing Words

cactusa plant with a thick,

fleshy stem that usually has spines but

no leaves

Amazing Words

dunehill of sand

Amazing Words

landforma shape formed on

the land

Amazing Words

precipitationrain or snow

Read or Listen to a Passage

The selections this week are

about the desert.

Read or Listen to a Passage

“Sand All Around,” p. 74

Read or Listen to a Passage

What did you learn about the desert and the

plants and animals that live there? Is the desert a landform that gets lots of precipitation or is it

arid? How do you know?

Tomorrow’s Objectives

• Word Work: Phonemic Awareness: Adding Sounds /s/, /z/

• Phonics: Blend Words with Inflected Ending –s and Plural –s

• High frequency Words: draw, eye, picture, read /red/

• Read or Listen to a Passage: “A Report About the Desert,” p.82