ANIMAL TRAITS

UNIT 1 WEEK 3 DAY 1

Day 1
 MORNING MESSAGE
What do these things have in common?
Chew
Dig
Sniff

Turn and tell your partner.

 DAILY PHONEMIC
AWARENESS
Blend Phonemes
Today we’re going to blend sounds in words. Listen /a//m/, am. Blend
the word am with me. What is the vowel sound you hear in am? /a/
Now let’s blend another word /ai//m/, aim. Blend the word aim with
me. What is the vowel sound you hear in aim? /a/

Continue the activity for these words: cap/cape, back/bake, Sam/same

and mad/made.
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WORDS
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 PHONEMIC AWARENESS
WARM-UP
I’ll blend the sounds in a word and then you say the word and tell what vowel sound you hear. I’ll do it first.
Listen: dim. I hear the short i sound /i/. The word is dim. Listen: /d//i//m/. I hear the long vowel sound /i/. This
word is dime.

Now, blend with me: /r//i//d/. What’s the word? rid What vowel sound do you hear /i/ Now blend: /r//i//d/.
What is the word? ride What vowel sound do you hear? /i/ Now listen and blend the sounds to say these words
and their vowel sounds: cap, /a/; cape, /a/; sit, /i/; site, /i/; back, /a/; bake, /a/.
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1. bake bike race rice rake hike Wo
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2. spice space pile pale slide

slime
3. taste fine pride flame brake
bride
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frame framed n

2. write writer brave bravest wide

widest
3. trade trader shine shining
wake awake
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2. The other plane left on time.

3. Did you ride a bike around the city?

Decodable Reader
DICTATION/SPELLING
READING WARM-UP
Different kinds of pets have different traits. A trait
tells something about the way a pet looks or acts.
Pets need different kinds of care depending on their
traits.
Think about a pet. Tell your partner about the traits
your pet might have or might need. See if your
partner can guess your pet by the pet traits you tell
your partner.
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DAILY PROOFREADING PRACTICE

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