Between the lions: Exploring short-vowel sounds
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A lesson plan for grade 1 English Language Arts
In this ReadWriteThink lesson, early readers are introduced to the “Between the Lions” television program and website. Students review short-vowel sounds and practice their skills using a variety of innovative video clips, games, and activities on the “Between the Lions” website. Students should have prior knowledge of short-vowel sounds before participating in these lesson activities. This lesson enhances students’ skills in identifying short-vowel sounds and words that contain a short-vowel sound.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
English Language Arts (2004)
Grade 1
- Goal 1: The learner will develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
- generate the sounds from all the letters and appropriate letter patterns which should include consonant blends and long and short vowel patterns.
- use phonics knowledge of sound-letter relationships to decode regular one-syllable words when reading words and text.
- recognize many high frequency and/or common irregularly spelled words in text (e.g., have said, where, two).
- read compound words and contractions.
- read inflectional forms (e.g., -s, -ed, -ing) and root words (e.g., looks, looked, looking).
- read appropriate word families.
- Objective 1.02: Demonstrate decoding and word recognition strategies and skills:
