It’s here! We’ve reached Unit 2 of Phonics by the Book! If you’re new to this curriculum, you can click on any of the images at the END of this post to find them all!
*This is a series I originally posted YEARS ago on This Reading Mama. My goal is to revise it and add more to it. But for now, I’m just moving it to its new home here.
*Click on the green download button towards the BOTTOM of this post to download this lesson.
Before I get to far into posting about Lesson 1, I wanted to give a BIG SHOUT OUT to Masaru of Christian Clip Arts. His website it absolutely amazing, as he is a gifted artist who wants to freely bless others with it! Thank you, Masaru, for working so hard to get the clip art ready for these readers. 🙂
Unit 2, Lesson 1 focuses on the Israelites as they learned to trust God in the middle of the desert. The phonics skill is the Long a_e pattern.
In the download, you’ll find:
- God Was on Their Side reader (with a focus on a_e words)
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printables & activities for reinforcing a_e words
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printables & activities to coincide with sight words (most are from Fry’s first 100 Sight Word & Pre-Primer/Primer lists)
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writing ideas & prompts
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focal Bible Verse with activities
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5-Day Lesson Outline that gives a plan for spacing out the activities over the week
Many of the activities are the same as the ones from Unit 1, but I’ve changed up a few of them per my son’s request. 🙂
This new unit still contains:
a word sort, with words chosen mostly from the reader &
various games and activities to reinforce the phonics skill and sight words.
But there are some new activities, such as:
Spin a Pattern
We used a paper clip for a spinner
The idea is you spin one of the a_e patterns, then write a word from the sort with that pattern on your game board.
The first person to write 5 of one of the patterns is declared the winner. (He won, of course!)
A-“maze”-ing Sight Words
His biggest request was that I start making mazes. It took me quite some time to figure out how to do this, but I finally did! He LOVED it. For this activity, the child draws his way through the maze, then goes back and reads the words on the path.
I Spy Sight Words-locate and write the 10 words hidden in the picture
Go Fish (with Sight Words)-these are the five words I chose from the text. You may want to pick your own.
To download all the printables in this lesson, click below:
Enjoy learning to read with Bible stories!
~Becky
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