Title/theme/focus of lesson: Open Court- Lesson 6.

7 (Introducing /aw/ spelled aw, au_)

Common Core State Standards:

English Language Arts

1.0 Word Analysis, Fluency, and Systematic Vocabulary Development

1.3 Identify letters, words, and sentences.

1.5 Distinguish long- and short-vowel sounds in orally stated single-syllable words (e.g., bit/bite).

1.10 Generate the sounds from all the letters and letter patterns, including consonant blends and

long- and short-vowel patterns (i.e., phonograms), and blend those sounds into recognizable
words.

Essential lesson question(s):

Can students read and write words with the aw and au_ spellings?
Learning outcomes/objectives:

Students will associate the /aw/ sound with the spellings aw and au_.
Students will blend and read words.
Students will read decodable books to blend fluency.
Students will use sounds to write words.
Students will use knowledge of vowel digraphs to read words.
Vocabulary:
Vowel
Sound
Blending words:
law, saw, draw, claw, awful, crawl, shawl, lawn, auto, fault, cause, applaud, August,
saucer, pause, paws, walk, chalk, talk, stalk.
Phonics Skills workbook words:
Raw, bawl, pause, crawls, saucer, claw, saw sauce, fawn, flaunt, brown.
Assessment:

Formative- Reading the core book(s) that includes words spelled with aw and au_. They
will read the story aloud all together and individually, while I assess how their reading
accuracy and fluency is.

Materials:
The Open Court manual
The aw and au_ sound card
Each student needs their own Phonics Skills workbook
Decodable books (15 for whole class)

Room environment: Students will be on the rug for the first half of the lesson. They will then move
to their desks during the phonics skills and reading portions of the lesson.

Accommodations & Modifications for diverse learners: Identify strategies and rationale for diverse
learners such as:
English Learners- Have clear instruction with much repetition. Words will be written on the board
for visual reference.
GATE and/or Multiple Intelligences as needed- Some of the words used in this lesson are slightly
more advanced, which will allow the more advanced students to be challenged in their learning. Also,
during the reading of the decodable book(s), I will allow the more advanced students (which is only one)
to read a different, more challenging book separately.

Instructional Procedure: Include these elements in your teaching though the order may vary depending
on the lesson:

Anticipatory Set/Orientation: (5 mins)

I will introduce the new spelling for the day by showing the new sound card, which is hung on the
wall.
As I introduce the new sound, I will read a related poem which includes words with the new
spelling (s).

Teaching/Instructional Process (input and modeling): (10ish mins)

I will begin by blending various words on the whiteboard with my students.
 There will be about 5 lines of words.

Guided Practice and Monitoring: (10-15mins)

Students will then participate in a game which incorporates all the words we just said all together
as a class.
Each word will be cut out and placed in a bag or hat (or something related).
Students will be called up by picking fair stick and they must choose one word. They will
have to speak the word correctly in order to take the word card with them (which acts as
a point). If they do not speak the word correctly, they must put the word back. If the
students choose a BAM card, I will choose a word on the board that they must say for
me.
We will do this until all the word cards are gone, or until time runs out.
Monitoring/Check for understanding:

Students will complete pages 156-7 in their Phonics Skills workbooks (we will skip the
last sentence on page 156 though due to time).

Closure: (5 mins)

o Students will then read one decodable book.

I will go through it once with them. I will project it on the TV. As they follow along
with me highlighting the focus words for the day, I will be frontloading the story by
reading it first.
The students will then reread the story once more. One student at a time will read
while I listen for fluency and accuracy.