Skill Building

Lesson Plans for SMELLY CLYDE Level L

Building Skills

Phonics
Consonant Blends, s-blend family
Tell children that consonant blends are two or three consonant letters in a word whose sounds combine, or blend. Write the words smart, slippers, sniff, scooted, stuck, and stable on the chalkboard or chart paper. Underline the letters sm, sl, sn, sc, and st in each word. Explain to children that these letters stand for the /sm/, /sl/, /sn/, /sc/, and /st/ sounds. Point out that often when s and another consonant appear together in a word, the sounds that both letters stand for are blended together. Blend each word aloud as you run your finger under each letter. Have a volunteer underline the letters sm, sl, sn, sc, and st. Continue by helping children to generate a list of words containing these sounds. List the words on the chalkboard or chart paper. Remind children that blends can come at the beginning of a word and at the end of a word, e.g., blast.

Write the following words and sentences on the chalkboard or chart paper. Have children underline the s-blend in each word.

blast	slam	spot	stuck	stale
smelly	snake	slash	slimy	smith
Did you slip on the rug?
I will smash the can.

Word Work
High Utility Words
Write the words, would and could on the chalkboard or chart paper. Tell children that they will see these words frequently as they read. Explain that they are special words that are often found in books, and are easier to memorize than to sound out every time they appear. Next, give children two cards to copy the words, would and could. Point to the first word, read it, then ask children to read it back to you. Ask them to dictate sentences using the word. Write the sentences and have them read them back to you. Look at distinguishing features in the words. Put the words onto the classroom Word Wall.

Synonyms
Tell children that you are going to work with words called synonyms. Words that mean the same or nearly the same are called synonyms, like gift and present. Synonyms can be both nouns and verbs, like odor (noun) and sniff (verb). Write the word synonym on the chalkboard or chart paper. Have children reread the story. Tell them to look for words that are nearly the same as smell. Help them generate the list of synonyms: odor, scent, sniff, whiff. Ask: Which synonyms are nouns and which are verbs? Put an n next to the noun synonyms and a v next to the verb synonyms. Tell children that the story synonyms odor, sniff, and whiff are used on pages 6, 12, 14, and 18.

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