1. My SideWalks Unit 1, Week 1, Day 3
Taking Care of Pets
My SideWalks
Unit 1, Week 1, Day 3

2. Objectives: Oral Reading for Fluency Letter Recognition: Aa
Phonemic Awareness: Blending Sounds
Review High Frequency Words
Review Vocabulary
Listen to a Passage “ Pets on a Mat”

3. Word Work Aa
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”.

4. /s/ Phonemic Awareness
Tell kids this is a picture of a turtle. The first sound in turtle is /t/. Kids should repeat sound.
Have kids to give you a thumbs up for words with the /t/ sound and a thumbs down for words without the /t/ sound. Use these words: man, ten, bag, time, tap, moon, van, town, lamb, tan, taxi

5. /a/ Phonemic Awareness
Tell kids this is a picture of a turtle. The first sound in turtle is /t/. Kids should repeat sound.
Have kids to give you a thumbs up for words with the /t/ sound and a thumbs down for words without the /t/ sound. Use these words: man, ten, bag, time, tap, moon, van, town, lamb, tan, taxi

6. /t/ Phonemic Awareness
Tell kids this is a picture of a turtle. The first sound in turtle is /t/. Kids should repeat sound.
Have kids to give you a thumbs up for words with the /t/ sound and a thumbs down for words without the /t/ sound. Use these words: man, ten, bag, time, tap, moon, van, town, lamb, tan, taxi

7. /s/- /a/- /t/ sat Phonemic Awareness
Tell kids this is a picture of a turtle. The first sound in turtle is /t/. Kids should repeat sound.
Have kids to give you a thumbs up for words with the /t/ sound and a thumbs down for words without the /t/ sound. Use these words: man, ten, bag, time, tap, moon, van, town, lamb, tan, taxi

8. /m/-/a/-/t/ mat Word Work
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”. Have students to practice writing t

9. /m/-/a/-/n/ man Word Work
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”. Have students to practice writing t

10. /m/-/a/-/d/ mad Word Work
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”. Have students to practice writing t

11. /t/-/a/-/n/ tan Word Work
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”. Have students to practice writing t

12. /t/-/a/-/g/ tag Word Work
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”. Have students to practice writing t

13. /t/-/a/-/p/ tap Word Work
Letter card on board. Identify upper and lower case “t”. Have students to practice writing t

14. Blending Strategy Tt
Review the letter and sound t /t/

15. Blending Strategy a
Today we will learn about short a /a/

16. Blending Strategy am
/a/- /m/
Model blending the word am

17. Blending Strategy
/a/- /t/

18. Blending Strategy at
Today we will learn about short a /a/

19. Blending Strategy
/a/- /m/

20. Blending Strategy am
Today we will learn about short a /a/

21. Blending Strategy
/m/- /a/-/t/

22. Blending Strategy
mat
Today we will learn about short a /a/

23. High Frequency Words I

24. High Frequency Words
like

25. High Frequency Words
the

26. Amazing Words
needs

27. Amazing Words
exercise

28. Amazing Words
responsibility

29. Amazing Words
shelter

30. Passage
“Pets on a Mat”
Before reading do a picture walk. Use page 10 of the My Sidewalk teacher’s edition. While reading give the students sticky notes, have them to identify the characters in the story; after reading have the students to tell you what happen to the characters. Complete practice book page 3.