1. Click to edit Master subtitle style Jennifer Walden Vowel Sounds

2. 11/17/09 TEKS Met through letter Identification and Vowel sounds 1.7 Reading/letter-sound relationships. The student uses letter-sound knowledge to decode written language. The student is expected to: (A) name and identify every letter of the alphabet (K-1); (B) understand that written words are composed of letters that represent sounds (K-1); (C) learn and apply letter-sound correspondences of a set of consonants and vowels to begin to read (K-1); 1.8 Reading/word identifications. The student uses a variety of word identification strategies. The student is expected to: (A) decode by using all letter-sound correspondences within a word (1-3); (B) use common spelling patterns to read words (1);

3. 11/17/09 Unit Question What is a vowel? What sound does a vowel make? Skills Students will gain The students will learn how to recognize and vowel and the sound the vowel makes within a word.

4. 11/17/09 Student should identify what vowels are and the sound the vowel makes to create a word. Blooms Taxonomy: Know

5. 11/17/09 Vowel Sound A Cat = C + A + T Short A sound Cake = C + A + K + E Long A sound

6. 11/17/09 Vowel Sound E Long E Sound Me = M +E Egg = E + G + G Short E sound

7. 11/17/09 Vowel Sound I Long i sound Short i sound it = i + t kite = k+i+t+e

8. 11/17/09 Vowel Sound O Short O Sound Long O Sound Hot = H + O + T HOME = H + o + m + e

9. 11/17/09 Vowel Sound U Short U sound Long U Sound BUG = B + U + G TUBE = T + u + b + e

10. 11/17/09 Sometimes Y... Shy = i sound Away = A sound

11. 11/17/09 Activity Our activity would be in a computer lab playing vowel games on the PBS.com website or Picture Match.com Also once back in the classroom working on their own there would be a cut and paste worksheet similar to the games played online.

12. 11/17/09 Computer interactive games to help learn reading….. http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/ There are three games on this website in which you and your student can play. Game One: Beginning Letter Sound: The student is shown pictures and has to match the pictures to the correct beginning letter down below. Game Two: Short Vowel Sounds: The student is shown a series of pictures and has to match the short vowel sound to the vowel letter below. Game Three: Long Vowel Sounds: The student will be shown a picture that he or she must match to the long vowel letter below. The students are asked to identify all the short letter vowels out of many words and place them in a bucket. The students can also pick a game where they have to identify all the long vowel sounds. http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html

13. 11/17/09 Works Cited... Picture Maker Word Games – http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch Texas TEKS – http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/First_Grade.pdf http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/First_Grade.pdf – http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/Kindergarten.pdf http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/teks/grade/Kindergarten.pdf PBS Learning – http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html http://pbskids.org/lions/games/stacker.html