Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 85
Workbook (page 33)
Open the Workbook to page 33.
Activity 1
• Have students take out their plasticine. Have them roll small logs to cover the ‘J's at
the top of the page.
• Have students color the letters at the top of the page, following the direction of the
arrows.
Activity 2
• Draw a small ‘j’ on the Letter House poster.
• Ask students where small ‘j’ lives. (It starts in the middle and goes down to the bottom
floor. Then put the dot upstairs.)
• Ask a student to do the ‘j’ action with their hand and say: /j/ /j/ jump.
• Give the student a jelly candy and put it on the dot on the small letter ‘j’ at the top of
page.
• Go around the class and have each student do the ‘j’ action. (They may do so in
groups to make the activity go faster.)
• Give a jelly bean to each student to put on the dot at the top of the page.
• Have students color in the small ‘j’ at the top of the page, following the direction of the
arrow, and at the same time say the sound /j/ and the word ‘jump’.
• Draw a big ‘J’ on the Letter House poster.
• Ask where big ‘J’ lives. (on the top floor and in the middle of the house)
• Have students write rows of ‘Jj’s. As they write each letter they can chant: The letter is
‘J’. The sound is /j. The word is ‘jump’.
Activity 3
• Instruct students to color in red only the jelly candies with the letters ‘j’ or ‘J’.
• Ask students what letters the red jelly candies make (‘J’, ‘j’)
Activity 4
• Look at the pictures.
• Ask what each picture shows. Say the word written below each picture. (jam, jump,
jeep, jeans jacket)
• Have students repeat the words after you.
• Trace the letter ‘j’ in each word.
• Now ask them, what other letters they know in these words.
• Have students trace the letters.
• Ask what letters are in the word ‘jacket’. (Students can read all of the letters in the
word ‘jacket’.)
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