Teaching Strategy Implemented In Classroom

With the emphasis on all children being able to read on grade level by third grade our school is determined to continue implementing new reading strategies to enable all students to read.  As a grade level we developed our own explicit phonics lessons to teach each sound.  We use a balanced literacy approach in our classrooms.  Each lesson includes practice in phonemic awareness, blending, reading writing connection, and fluency. 

Explicit Phonics Lesson for CH

Phonemic Awareness Warm-up

·        When the teacher says something that makes you sneeze, say “A-A-A- CHOO.”

o       pepper      water        paper        dust

o       cookie       a cold        allergies     cat hair      tape

 Spelling pattern and decoding

·        Show the CH digraph, and chart with CH words. (cover the digraph)

o       Chart words:

Chad         chat          chip 

chop         woodchuck      chit-chat

Cheerful    children chew chocolate chips.

(Remind children that this is alliteration)

Practice blending and spelling

·        Tell children you are going to pass out cards with, CH words.  They should find the digraph and highlight it with tape.   Read the card silently.  Share with a partner.

o       chalk         chair         chalkboard         champ

o       chance      chapel       chase            chatterbox

o       cheap        checkbook    cheerleader     China

o       chilly         chewy       childhood           cherish

·        Read cards as you take them back up.  Make sentences with any unfamiliar words.

Write the following on chart paper and laminate.  Students will circle all long e words with a Vis-à-vis marker.

Chomping and Chewing

Chomping and chewing on nachos with cheese,
On Chinese chowmein with chopsticks please;
Chomping and chewing on chilies and chowder
That char my chops like exploding gunpowder.
 
Chomping and chewing on chocolate chips,
On chocolate chews and a chocolate mousse flip,
On white chocolate cherries and a milk chocolate kiss;
Yes, I’m chomping and chewing in a chewy chocolate bliss.

Dictation and composition

·        Use white boards to write sentences with CH words. 

The chap had a cap.
Did the chap chop a log?
Chad and Tom had a chit-chat.

 Apply the lesson

·        Read Chip the Chimp (Lesson 40 Reading a-z) OR

Happy Chick (Harcourt Reading Series Bk. 3)

·        Find all the CH words.
    Choral Read.

 **Extensions:

Read The True Story of the Three Little Pigs