Reading Readiness TG - Book - Page 95
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Hold up the mural piece for ‘Mm’.
Ask students where they think the letters ‘Mm’ go. (after ‘Ll’, between ‘Ll’ and
‘Nn’, before ‘Nn’)
Hang up the mural piece.
Sing the ABC Song (track 7). Do the actions for the letters they have learned.
Workbook (page 37)
Open the Workbook to page 37.
Activity 1
• Have students take out their plasticine. Have them roll small logs to cover the
‘M'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 ‘m’ on the Letter House poster.
• Ask where small ‘m’ lives. (in the middle of the house)
• Draw a big ‘M’ on the Letter House poster.
• Say: Draw the first line down. Pick up your pencil, and draw the second line
down and continue back up and then down again.
• Ask where big ‘M’ lives. (on the top floor and in the middle of the house)
• Have students write rows of ‘Mm’s. As students write each letter they can say:
The sound is /m/. The word is ‘camel’. The word is ‘monkey’.
Activity 3
• Tell students to color in the squares that have the letter ‘m’ in them.
• Ask what shape the path makes. (big ‘M’)
Activity 4
• Look at the pictures.
• Ask what each picture shows. Say the word written below each picture. (camel,
mouse, monkey, man)
• Have students repeat the words after you.
• Have students trace the ‘m’s.
• Now ask them, what other letters they know in these words.
• Have students trace the letters.
• Students can now read all of the letters in the words ‘man’, 'camel' and 'monkey'.
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