Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 28
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Draw a small ‘i’ inside the rectangle of the ‘i’, first with a red marker, then with blue,
and then with green. Continue making as many ‘i’s in as many colors as you like. The
result will be a ‘rainbow letter’.
Have students make a rainbow letter ‘i’ on page 13.
Activity 2
• Draw a small ‘i’ on the Letter House poster. Draw the letter in the middle of the house
and put the dot above the line.
• Have students write a row of small ‘i’s. As they write each ‘i’, students can say the
sound /i/.
• Tell students to look at the top of page 13. The letter beside small ‘i’ is big ‘I’.
• Chant: The letter is ‘I’. The sound is /i/ (short sound). The word is 'Italy'.
• Ask students what letter big ‘I’ looks like. (small ‘l’)
• Ask students what is different. (Big ‘I’ has a ‘head’ and a ‘foot’.)
• Draw a big ‘I’ on the board like the one at the top of page 12.
• Draw a rainbow letter of big ‘I’. Have students do the same at the top of the page.
• On the Letter House poster, draw a big ‘I’. Be sure to draw the ‘head’ and ‘foot’. Point
out that the line starts from the top floor of the house and goes down to the main floor.
• Have students write a row of big ‘I’s and say the sound /i/.
Activity 3
• In order to distinguish between the big letters 'I' and 'L', tell students to trace the 'I' with
a red crayon and the letter 'L' with a blue crayon.
Note: The figures that are upside down or facing the wrong direction are there as
distracters, they should not be traced. The letter 'T' has not been taught yet, and is
there as distracter too, therefore it should not be traced.
• Chant: The letter is ‘I’. The sound is /i/. The word is 'Italy'. The letter is ‘L’. The sound
is /l/. The word is 'listen'.
Activity 4
• Look at the pictures.
• Ask what each picture shows. Say the word written below each picture: igloo, Italy, in,
Iggy. Have students repeat after you.
• Say: Circle the letters ‘I’ and ‘i’.
• Tell the class that a big ‘I’ is used at the beginning of a name.
• Have students trace the letters ‘I’ and ‘i’ with a pencil.
• Ask students what other letters they see that they know. (The letter 'l' in the words
‘igloo’ and ‘Italy’.) Have them trace those letters too.
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