EPIC Teacher's Guide - Book - Page 354
The Letter Uu
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Review the vocabulary using the flashcards: under, bus, sun, duck.
Ask: What is this? (Elicit: This is (a)…)
Ask: What sound do you hear at the beginning of the word ‘under’? (Elicit: /u/)
Ask: What sound do you hear in the middle of the words ‘bus, sun, duck? (Elicit:
/u/)
Show the letter Uu flashcard and say: The letter is U and the sound is /u/.
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Teach the new vocabulary using the flashcards.
Present the cards and say the words: umbrella, up.
Have pupils repeat the words.
Remind pupils of the lexical chunk “stand up.”
Say: The letter is U and the sound is /u/.
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Have the pupils repeat.
Have the pupils repeat.
Ask: What other words do you know that have the sound /u/? (Elicit: fun, run, cut,
but, etc.)
Look at your name cards. Does anyone's name begin with the letter U?
Song
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Teach and sing “Under My Umbrella” (song #2.48)
Writing
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Show or draw an empty letter house.
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Write a big U and a small u 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 U starts in the roof… goes into the house… and then again into
the roof.
And small u stays in the house.
Trace the big letter U on the board and have pupils write the letter with their finger
in the air or on their desks, then repeat with small letter u.
As you trace, say together with the pupils: The letter is U and the sound is /u/.
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