Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 103
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Say: /s/ /s/ snake. /s/ /s/ snake. As students say ‘/s/ /s/ snake’ and the rope is moving
in ‘S’ shapes, invite students to jump across the rope without touching the rope.
If they touch the rope, everyone says: Stop. Stop. Go sit down. As they say ‘stop’, they
hold up a hand in a ‘stop’ position.
Boys/Girls Stand Up (track 2)
• Review the song from lesson one.
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Boys stand up.
Boys turn around.
Clap three times.
(clap, clap, clap)
Boys sit down.
Girls stand up.
Girls turn around.
Clap three times.
(clap, clap, clap)
Girls sit down.
Tell students to listen for the words that have the /s/ sound as we sing the song for the
girls. (stand, sit)
Don’t Slurp your Spaghetti!
• Show students the bowl of spaghetti. Say: Spaghetti.
• Ask students what sound ‘spaghetti’ begins with? (/s/)
• Give each student a paper plate with a few strands of cooked spaghetti on it.
• Tell students to shape the spaghetti into an ‘S’ on their plates, to chant together and to
make the appropriate movements.
• When students have all made the letter ‘S’ with their spaghetti , they may eat it with a
fork!
Name Cards Activity
If there are students whose names begin with the letter ‘S’, then follow instructions for the
Name Cards Activity in Lesson 8, on page 21.
Letter Cards
• Open the Workbook to pages 43 and 45.
• Have students carefully remove the ‘S’ and ‘s’ Letter Cards.
• Now Tell students to take out the ‘Ss’ Letter Cards and put them on their tables with
the big and small letters in pairs.
• Say: Point to the letter ‘S’.
• Chant together and do the appropriate actions (track 38): The letter is ‘S’. The sound
is /s/. The word is ‘stop’.
• Call out: Big ‘S’. Students must raise the correct card.
• Call out: Small ‘s’. Students must raise the correct card.
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