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Review Section: Sight Word Study Method and Review Drills

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Lesson #: 40

Length: 45=60 minutes

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Credits: This lesson was created by Shawna Audet from the Flying Cat Academy. The drills used in this lesson and the scope and sequence that it follows were created by the Dyslexia Training Institute. The pictures used in the connected text section come from pixabay.com.

Sight Words - 5 minutes

Equipment: list of common sight words, instruction sheet, blank index cards, and 1 marker

Current sight words: such, much, rich, which

New words added:

Short Vowel Drill = 3 minutes

Equipment: 5 short vowel keyword pictures and the “Fat Ed is not up” handout.

Note: Discontinue this drill when the sounds are mastered

Phonemic Awareness Drill - 3 minutes

Equipment: differently coloured blocks of uniform shape

Word List: desk, disk, dusk, dunk, lunk, plunk

ten, tren, trench

Visual Drill - 2 Minutes

Equipment: Starting pack consonants and vowels written on index cards

consonants: b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,qu,r,s,t,v,w,x,y,z

short vowels: a,e,i,o,u

beginning consonant blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw, scr, spl, str, squ

ending consonant blends: ct, ft, lt, pt, nt, st, xt, lf, lk, lp, ld, mp, sk, sp

exceptions to closed syllable rule: all, ang, ank, ing, ank, ing, ink, old, ild, ind

consonant digraphs: ch, sh, ph, wh, th

other: tch, ck

(reminders - use blocking strategies and remove mastered sounds from pack)

Auditory Drill - 3 minutes

Equipment: Same pack of index cards that you used for the visual drill

Equipment: Starting pack consonants and vowels written on index cards

consonants: b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,qu,r,s,t,v,w,x,y,z

short vowels: a,e,i,o,u

beginning consonant blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw, scr, spl, str, squ

ending consonant blends: ct, ft, lt, pt, nt, st, xt, lf, lk, lp, ld, mp, sk, sp

exceptions to closed syllable rule: all, ang, ank, ing, ank, ing, ink, old, ild, ind

consonant digraphs: ch, sh, ph, wh, th

other: tch, ck

(reminders - use blocking strategies and remove mastered sounds from pack)

Auditory Drill - 3 minutes

Equipment: Same pack of index cards that you used for the visual drill

Equipment: Starting pack consonants and vowels written on index cards

consonants: b,c,d,f,g,h,j,k,l,m,n,p,qu,r,s,t,v,w,x,y,z

short vowels: a,e,i,o,u

beginning consonant blends: bl, cl, fl, gl, pl, sl, br, cr, dr, fr, gr, pr, tr, sc, sk, sm, sn, sp, st, sw, tw, scr, spl, str, squ

ending consonant blends: ct, ft, lt, pt, nt, st, xt, lf, lk, lp, ld, mp, sk, sp

exceptions to closed syllable rule: all, ang, ank, ing, ank, ing, ink, old, ild, ind

consonant digraphs: ch, sh, ph, wh, th

other: tch, ck

(reminders - use blocking strategies and remove mastered sounds from pack)

Reading Section: Syllable Card Drill, New Concept or Review, Magnetic Letter Tile Drill for Reading, Reading Single Word List, Reading Connected Text

Syllable Card Drill - 3 minutes

Equipment: index cards

1. Write each syllable on an index card. Place the cards in two columns so that all of the “Syllable #1” cards are in the first column (ad, fin, plan, pump, mis, lim) and “Syllable #2” cards in the second column (ish, et, mit, fit, kin, it)

2.Complete, the drill by asking the student to do the following things:

read down all of the Column #1 words.
read down all of the Column #2 words.
read across each row (the words will often be nonsense words)
move around words in Column #2 to create real words (admit, finish, planet, pumpkin, misfit, limit).
Discuss the meaning of each word with the student and ask the student to use each word in a sentence.