Welcome: Please collect a paper from Travis and use it to answer the question below. Which of the following do you think is the most important? a)That the students receive a high score on the exam. b)That the students meet the curriculum standards. c)That the students complete all of the work in the books. * (Please use full sentences to write your answer on the paper provided and return it to Travis.)

Today’s Agenda 1. Greeting 2. Magic Box 3. Grammar Point 4. Break 5. Successful Test Taking 6. Phonics 7. Closing

Magic Box 1. Review today’s skill. (Segmenting and counting phonemes) 2. Demonstrate. 3. Practice today’s song. 4. Play.

Phonics Terms Segmenting: To break into smaller pieces. (Today we will be breaking words down into phonemes.) Phonemes: The smallest unit of sound. (cat has 3 phonemes: c/ a/ t) (she has 2 phonemes: sh/ e) (fight has 3 phonemes: f/ igh/ t)

Magic Box 1. Review today’s skill. (Segmenting and counting phonemes) 2. Demonstrate. 3. Practice today’s song. 4. Play.

The Weather Song How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? It is windy. It is windy today. It is windy. It is windy today.

The Weather Song How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? It is cloudy. It is cloudy today. It is cloudy. It is cloudy today.

The Weather Song How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? It is a little cloudy, a little cloudy, a little cloudy today. It is a little cloudy, a little cloudy today.

The Weather Song How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? How’s the weather? How’s the weather today? It is hot and sunny, hot and sunny, hot and sunny today. It is hot and sunny, hot and sunny today.

Tag Questions What are they??????????

What are tag questions? A question “tagged” to the end of a sentence is called a tag question, isn’t it? Tag questions are also called “confirmation questions” because we ask them when we think we know the answer, and we just want someone to confirm whether the answer we know is correct. Ex: We are at the TPD session now, aren’t we?

The basic pattern of a tag question goes like this: It has two parts: 1. A statement and… 2. A yes or no question asking if the statement is true. The two parts are then separated by a comma. Ex: We are at the TPD session, aren’t we? (statement) (question)

Positive / Negative When the statement is positive, the tag becomes negative. When the statement is negative, the tag becomes positive. Ex: She can drive, can’t she? She can’t drive, can she? She is not coming, ____ she? a. is b. isn’t We are learning about tag questions, ____ we? a. aren’t b. are

Noun / Pronoun The noun in the statement becomes the pronoun in the tag. Ex: Emma wasn’t late today, was she? Hema is always smiling, isn’t ____ ? a. she b. her Our mentors are smart, aren’t ____ ? a. we b. they

Main Verb / Helping Verb The main (auxiliary) verb in the statement is repeated as a helping verb in the tag. Ex: They’d left the workshop early, hadn’t they? We had run out of time, ___ we? a. didn’t b. hadn’t You were always on time, ____ you? a. was b. weren’t

Extra Practice 1. They’ve already left __ ____ ____ ? 2. Our GB is cheerful today __ ____ ____ ? 3. We’d already finished our work __ ____ ____ ? 4. Mr. Khalid can ride a motorbike __ ____ ____ ? 5. There were many questions __ ____ ____ ? 6. These tag questions ____ simple, aren’t ____ ? 7. Think and Write. Write your own tag question for number 7. ___________________________________________ ?

Answers 1.haven’t they 2.isn’t she OR isn’t he 3.hadn’t we 4.can’t he 5.weren’t there 6.are - they 7.Answers may vary.

Break Time Why did the girl throw her clock? Because she wanted to see time fly.

Successful Test Taking: What does it take? Think about the exams your students will take in school. What are the three most important things that need to be in place for them to be successful? Brainstorm with your group for 5 minutes and then share your ideas with the class.

Test Time You have 5 minutes to complete the following test. Good luck.

Speaking “Op” “Op” talk is a language used by some English speaking children to disguise their English. The language is built around the spelling of each word. For vowels simply say the name of the vowel. For consonants add “op” after each consonant sound.

Example Travis has 2 vowels and 4 consonants. In “op” talk it would be read Top rop a vop i sop. Can you read this sentence? I lopikope opop topalopkop. * Let’s go back and try the test again.

Test 1.Wophopatop isop yopourop nopamope? What is your name? 2.Isop topodopayop Fopropidopayop? Is today Friday? 3.Copanop yopou soppopeakop Enopgoplopisophop? Can you speak English?

Back in Groups Having taken the test. Think about why you struggled. Take some time with your group to edit your lists.

Building Blocks

Learning to pole vault

The child learns to walk. The child learns to run. The child learns to pole vault.

Reading The aim is to help the students read for comprehension. This is called fluency. Fluency requires that the students must be able to: decode (phonics), recognize sight words, and understand what they are reading.

Students learn sight words and phonics. Students practice these skills by reading texts. Students begin to understand what they read, and become fluent readers.

Phonics Hopscotch Time to practice segmenting again and have a little fun.

Thanks for coming.