EPIC Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 312
The Letter Zz
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Review the vocabulary using the flashcards: zebra, zoo.
Ask: What is this? (Elicit: This is (a)...)
Ask: What sound do you hear at the beginning of the words? (Elicit: /z/)
Show the letter Zz flashcard and say: The letter is Z and the sound is /z/.
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Teach the new vocabulary using the flashcards.
Present the cards and say the words: zero.
Have pupils repeat the words.
Say: The letter is Z and the sound is /z/.
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Have the pupils repeat.
Have the pupils repeat.
Ask: Look at your name cards. Does anyone's name begin with the letter Z?
Writing
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Show or draw an empty letter house.
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Write a big J and a small j in the house. Be sure to show how to write the letters, their
position within the house, where to begin each line, and the proper direction to draw
them. Say:
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Look at how big Z starts in the roof…and goes into the house.
And small z stays in the house.
Trace the big letter Z on the board and have pupils write the letter with their finger in
the air or on their desks, then repeat with small letter z.
As you trace, say together with the pupils: The letter is Z and the sound is /z/.
Course Book
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Say: Open your Course Books to page 126. Look at #1.
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Say: Trace then write the big and small letters Zz.
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While pupils are working, walk around checking that pupils are tracing carefully on
the lines and writing the letters from left to right and top to bottom.
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