Phonics with Starfall
Using the SMART Board to Read Decodable Books
Stage of Literacy Development:
Stage 0: Foundation for LiteracyStage 1: Beginning Literacy
Ages:
4-8
Grade Range:
PreK K 1st 2ndFood Groups:
Primary:
Letter Sounds & Phonics
Secondary:
Motivation for Literacy, Spelling & Word Study
Transcript
Teacher: Were on Starfall, and were going to visit the story, Zac the Rat. SMART Board: Listen to the short A sound. Teacher, SMART Board, and Students: /a/a/a/a/a/ SMART Board: Short A makes this kind of sound. Teacher, SMART Board, and Students: /a/a/a/a/a/ Teacher and SMART Board: /z/ac/, Zac, Teacher, SMART Board, and Students: is a Students: /r/at/ Teacher, SMART Board, and Students: /r/a/t, rat. Teacher: Lets put all those words together. Teacher and Students: Zac is a rat. Teacher: Thumbs up, good job, press the arrow please, [Students Name]. Find out what happens. SMART Board: /a/ Teacher, SMART Board, and Students: to the /j/a/m/, jam. Teacher: Lets put all those words together. Teacher and Students: The ants ran to the jam. [Students Name] press the arrow please. Were going to play a game with the /at/ family. SMART Board: Make a word with /a/t/, /at/, Teacher: /at/ SMART Board: to match the picture. Bat. Teacher: Which one of these letters belongs over here, to make the word bat? [Students Name], come on up. SMART Board: /b/b/at/, bat. Cat. Teacher: What letter belongs here, at the beginning of the word? Students: C Teacher: What sound are we looking for? Students: /c/ Teacher and Students: /c/c/c/ Teacher: Come on up and find that letter that matches over here. [Students Name], come on up. SMART Board: /c/ Teacher: Shes going to drag it into the box. SMART Board: /c/at/, cat. Teacher: Lets say it together. Teacher and Students: Cat SMART Board: Alright! You know, bat, Teacher, SMART Board, and Students: cat, hat, rat. Teacher: Good job, give yourselves thumbs up.
Related References
www.Starfall.com
Activity Objective
The goal of Phonics with Starfall: Using the SMART Board to Read Decodable Books is to help students develop an understanding of the relationships between written letters and spoken sounds by decoding words in interactive books and games.
Quick Tips
Additional Comments:
- The top-rated www.Starfall.com free website leads student through a range of activities to teach them the letter-sound relationships and how to use them to decode words, introducing the correspondences systematically and sequentially. Decodable books and games provide engaging opportunities to apply the correspondences to read and spell words. - The interactive whiteboard provides a highly motivating way for the whole class to share in the experience of learning and practicing letter-sounds in closely related reading and spelling activities.
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