Samples - Five Day Unit Plan Summary Grade Two Teacher’S Guide Code: TH09

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Now you can make phonics fast and fun with this FREE sample lesson. It’s packed full of teaching ideas and contains everything you need to teach the r-controlled syllable and the digraph ‘ar’. What’s more, there are FREE audio and software demos on the resource CD!

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• Grade Two Teacher’s Guide: • Story Phonics Software r e D s C • Five Day Unit Plan Summary p2 • Letter Sound Cards: m, ar, ource • The Robot Syllable with Arthur Ar ch, h, a/ŭ/, l, n, or, th and Orvil Or: ar, or p3-5 • Blends & Digraphs Song: ar • Picture Code Cards: ar p6 • Plus lots more! • Far Beyond ABC book: ar p7 • Grade Two Teacher’s Guide CD: • Student List p8 • Review Sentences p8 • Word Detectives p9 • Word Sort p9 • Unit Story: The Porcupine Report p10-11 • Blends & Digraphs Copymaster: ar p12 • Word Bank Copymaster: ar p13 • Grade Two Word Card Samples p14

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Five Day Unit Plan

Each Unit follows this same five day plan. You may also want to print out the convenient Daily Lesson Guide Cards from the resource CD.

Whole Class Small Group Independent/Partner Homework

• Phonics concept review • Teacher builds words for reading • Write words and sentences, • Read the Student • Introduce concepts on the • New Tricky Words Read to two partners List pocket chart • Read the Student List • Beyond ABC or Far Beyond ABC (for some lessons) Day 1 • ‘Live Reading’

Overview of • Read new Word Cards

• Quick Dash and Sounds Race: • Children build words • Reread Review Sentences • Look-say-cover- Letter to sound • Review Tricky Words • Quick Code the word list write • Shared Reading of songs (some • Read Review Sentences written on Day 1 lessons)

Day 2 • ‘Live Spelling’ • Word Detectives Overview of

• Guess Who? p • Dictate new Tricky Words • Prepare for the Game of • Write 5 interesting • Word Card Sort • Dictate 1 or 2 Review Sentences the Week sentences • Read the Unit Story to the • Children read the Unit Story • Written Word Sort children Day 3 Overview of

• Quick Dash • Share homework sentences • Written practice test with a • Practice test • Red Robot’s Reading Race • Reread Unit Story partner • Play the Game of the Week • Spelling Sort • Fluency practice with partners • New sentence dictation • Quick Code Review Sentences Day 4 Overview of

• Word Reading Fluency Check • Choose from optional activities • Picture Code words • Spelling Test • Read Unit Story to two partners • Deciding which Unit to teach next Day 5 Overview of

2 Samples - Unit 12: ar, or Abbreviations PCC: Picture Code Card Grade Two Teacher’s Guide LSC: Letter Sound Card Code: TH09 APC: Advanced Picture Code Card

Robot Syllable and y as a vowel Unit 12: R-controlled vowels: ar, or

Unit Focus Tricky Words Children familiar with Letterland are reintroduced to the Vowel Stealers, Arthur Ar and Orvil Or, this time in more challenging words than at the previous harm north animal level. These two troublemakers help introduce the Robot Syllable, which always includes one or two vowels followed by an r. Children learn that the robots capture the vowels in their robber sacks, preventing the vowels from making their march storm picture usual sounds. Arthur Ar steals apples and reports his catch by saying his last name Ar (/ar/ as in art and car). Orvil Or is the orange stealer who reports his barb forty last name Or (/or/ as in organ and north). Children catch these robbers in the act by calling out the robots’ last names whenever they see them in words. smart forget List A List B List C north march porch start short shark apart sorting forty smart thorn short party forty large storm sports scar large sports large report barb sorting starve fork target smart apart harm alarm party darkness forest forget report forest harmless forget report

Picture Code Cards for review Diagnostic Words PCCs or ai, ar*, ay, ea/ē/, ee, short, start, party, sport march, smart, storm, north north, start, fork, apart LSCs oa, ow/ō/, or*, ve, igh APCCs a/ŭ/, ge, kn, mb, wr Tricky Words: animal, picture * Introduced in this Unit Story Words: porcupine, absurd, rhyme, idea, warn Review Words: ﬂ ight, okay, wrote, limb, crumbs, known, below, between New Spelling Sentences: We sat on the porch to watch the forest animals. I painted a picture of a shark for my report.

Day 1

Materials Phonics concept review • Picture Code Cards (PCCs) for Display the picture side of the PCCs igh, kn, mb and wr. Ask children to tell the Review plus b, b, c, ĕ, ē, f, g, h, k, l, m, n, p, r, s, t, y/ē/, ch, sh, story for each one. Then show the plain letter sides and have children say the ss, th, APCC -ing sounds. • Unit 12 Word Cards, List A, B, or C on the pocket chart as shown Introduce concepts on the pocket chart (p14) • Beyond ABC and/or Story PCCs: ē, h, l, m, n, p, r, t, ar, ch, or, th Phonics software (p7) • 2 'robber sacks' or backpacks APCC: a/ŭ/, ge • Six Syllable Types Poster Words: march, harm, alarm, large, north, report • Unit 12 Student List (p8) • Display the picture side of the ar PCC. Let children describe what they see in the picture. Then read about Arthur Ar in Beyond ABC and/or Story Phonics software.

3 Samples - Unit 12: ar, or Abbreviations PCC: Picture Code Card Grade Two Teacher’s Guide LSC: Letter Sound Card Code: TH09 APC: Advanced Picture Code Card

• Have children pretend to be Arthur Ar with left arm held out in front and the Independent/Partner other arm holding pretend sacks on their shoulders. Have them say his sound • Write words & sentences several times as you push the plain letter side of the PCC forward, “/ar/ /ar/ / Homework ar/.” • Read the Student List (p8) • Return to the illustration and have children find things with the /ar/ sound. • Build the word march with plain letters. Tell children that this is a new kind of syllable called the ‘Robot Syllable’. When we see a robot with a vowel behind him, we can imagine his robot sack wrapped around the vowel as he runs away saying his name. We need to be good detectives and not be tricked by these troublemakers into saying the usual vowel sound. Instead when we see a Robot Syllable, we need to say the robot’s last name as we read the word or syllable. • Point to the word march. So, what kind of syllable is this? “Robot Syllable.” Point to ar. And what will the sound of these two letters be? “/ar/.” Flip the ar PCC to the picture side, and then have children finger tap the word. • Build the words harm and alarm and follow the usual steps. For the word alarm, review the sentence on the a/ŭ/, card that explains the /ŭ/ sound before building the word as shown at the left. The syllable is still called ‘open’, but it is making a different sound. • Introduce Orvil Or with the same steps as above, including his story and scene in Beyond ABC and/or Story Phonics software. • Then build the words with or and follow the usual steps. (Note: in the word report the first syllable is open but Mr. E says his name so fast we may only hear a quick ‘/ŭ/’.) ‘Live Reading’ PCCs: ĕ, f, g, m, p, s, t, ar, or, ve APCCs: a/ŭ/, -ing Words: smart, storm, sorting, sport, starve, forget, forest • Distribute PCCs. Let pairs of children hold the Vowel Stealer PCCs, ar and or, each with a sack or backpack. The vowel children hold on to the robot’s sack or shoulder to show they are captives. These pairs can stand to the audience left and rush into the word when you call for them. • After ‘Live Reading’, review ar, or, a/ŭ/ PCCs, both sides. • Point out the Robot Syllable panel of the Six Syllable Types Poster. Discuss the illustrations and example words with your class. • Read the new Word Cards in columns on the pocket chart with the class using the Tractors, trains, planes and helicopters activity.

SmallSmall GroupGroup TeacherTeacher bbuildsuilds worwordsds fforor reareadingding Tricky Words PCCs:PCCs: b,b, bb,, c, ĕ, ff,, gg,, hh,, kk,, ll,, m, n, p, s, t, y/ē/, ar,ar, er,er, or,or, sh,sh, ss picture APCCs:APCCs: a//ŭ/ŭ/ Words:Words: fork,fork, fforty,orty, partparty,y, apart, sshort,hort, sshark,hark, bbarb,arb, scar, hharmlessarmless animal • Write thethe TricTrickyky WordsWords as sshown.hown. Practice tthemhem witwithh tthehe 3-3-by-3by-3 StrateStrategy.gy. • RReadead the SStudenttudent LisListt (p8)(p8).

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Day 2 Quick Dash Materials • PCCs for Review plus d, f, ĕ, f, l, PCCs: ai, ar, ay, ea/ē/, ee, oa, ow/ō/, or, ve, igh k, m, p, s, t, t, ar, ch, or, ss APCC: a/ŭ/, ge, kn, mb, wr • APPC -ing • Letterland Word Builders or other letter sets ‘Live Spelling’ • Word Detectives (p9) • Unit 12 Student List (p8) PCCs: d, ĕ, f, l, k, m, n, p, s, t, t, ar, ch, or, ss APCCs: a/ŭ/, ge Words: porch, sport, sort, sorting, start, large, forest, alarm, darkness Independent/Partner • Let pairs of children hold the ar and or PCCs. After the rest of the children palm • Read Review Sentences with two partners (p8) the syllable and finger tap it, the appropriate vowel+r pair can rush into the • Quick Code the word list word. written on Day 1 • Leave the children in the word sport in place, until the rest of the children finger Homework tap the word sort and decide what changes need to be made. Do the same with • Look-say-cover-write: words, sort/sorting. and sentences Word Detectives I scrēamed in alarm when Children draw the robot’s robber sack around the captured vowel and Quick Code the other words as shown. I saw the large shark. The storm from the north SmallSmall GroupGroup spread darknĕss through the forĕst. Children build wordwordss Letters:Letters: a, a, b, b, c, e, f, gg,, h, k, l, l, t, m, m, n, o, p, r, r, s, t, y Larger version of Quick Coding for each Words:Words: north,north, thorn, storm, smart, alarm, party,party, apart, porch, fortforty,y, Unit is included in Word Detectives Key fforget,orget, targettarget (TGCD\Unit Activities) • Review TricTrickyky WorWords.ds. • RReadead Review SentencesSentences (p8)(p8).

Days 3 to 5 Refer to the 5 Day Unit Plan instructions for Days 3 to 5. Day 3: Word Sort This Unit works nicely for Live word sorting or if you prefer, use either pocket chart word sort, or sort by sound. Day 3: Unit Story • Before reading ‘The Porcupine Report’ to the children: Ask if anyone has ever heard of ‘pen pals’, and also what they know about porcupines. This would be a good time to use the K-W-L strategy on the subject of porcupines. • After reading: Have children retell this story using the ‘Story Stone’ activity, or complete the K-W-L activity (TGCD\Comprehension Activities).

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stick them together to make your 6 In Letterland, there are ﬁ ve roller-skating robots who cause trouble by capturing vowels even though they know they shouldn’t. This one is called Arthur Ar and he likes to capture Letterland apples. Look! He is running away with Annie Apple! She is too surprised to make her usual sound. Instead, all you can hear is Arthur Ar reporting back to the ringleader, Red Robot, with his last name, “Ar!”

Arthur Ar waited until it was getting dark. He thought he could get up to his tricks by the light of the stars, but now he’s stuck trying to escape from a large barn! The guard dog has started barking to raise the alarm. And now the farmer has found Arthur’s radar car parked in his yard. Arthur Ar is darting around the barn trying to escape, but there’s a guitar, tarts, sharp darts and jars of varnish in his way. Even a little armadillo is trying hard to catch Arthur Ar and stop him from getting away in his radar car!

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r-controlled Arthur Ar steals apples f m and reports back to Red Robot with his last name, “Ar!” g den

When Orvil Or steals oranges he calls out, “Or!” f b n

T17_Word-Bank-Copymasters.indd 23 17/04/2014 11:32 Grade Two Word Cards Sample Grade Two Word Cards cards (fronts only)

14 Story Phonics Explore Vocabulary Word Building (software CD-Rom) Code: TF03 FREE software demo available on resource CD or online at: www.letterland.com/phonics-books/story-phonics-software

Sample Blends & Digraphs Song, Track 33 th On e

The Apple Stealer’s Song e D s C Who’s that robot with the radar car? ource Oh no! It looks like Arthur Ar! Arthur Ar thinks he’s very smart, Blends & Digraphs Songs (CD) but we know where he got Code: T25 those apples in his tarts! Catch him, catch him, before he goes too far. Listen online at: Catch Arthur Ar in his radar car! www.letterland.com/ parent-guide/blends-and- digraphs-songs

Letterland Grade Two Pack contents: • Grade Two Teacher’s Guide (and resource CD) • Grade Two Word Cards • Beyond ABC (paperback) • Far Beyond ABC (paperback) • Picture Code Cards - Straight • Picture Code Cards - Advanced • Story Phonics (software CD-Rom) • Blends & Digraphs Songs (CD) Letterland Grade Two Pack • Advanced Songs (CD) Code: TE38 • Vowel Scene Posters • The Six Syllable Types Poster

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