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Reading the Alphabet ET Word Family (Lesson 26)

By thisreadingmama 7 Comments

It’s time for the fourth word family in our curriculum, Reading the Alphabet. This time, it’s Reading the Alphabet ET Word Family.

Reading the Alphabet ET Word Family - This Reading Mama

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Reading the Alphabet ET Word Family

Here are just a few shots of our ET Word Family Week:

photo of FREE Emergent Reader for ET Family | This Reading Mama

The ET Family emergent reader is called Pet to the Vet and introduces five ET family words, while reviewing all of the sight words from Lessons 21-25.

NJoy was upset that I printed off the color version for him, but read it anyway. By the end of the week, he had requested to color the pictures so many times that I caved in and printed off the black and white version for him!

photo of ET Family Word Puzzles | This Reading Mama

For the first part of the week, I always try to do different activities that will help him play with and interact with the ET word families, like these ET puzzles

 

photo of ET Family Pocket Chart Matching | This Reading Mama

and ET Pocket Chart Match

This week, we did something a little different with ET Bottle cap spelling, which he enjoyed.

photo of Bottle Cap ET Family Spelling | This Reading Mama

He closed his eyes and I spelled the word incorrectly {messing up one of the letters}

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He opened his eyes, read the word I spelled and then corrected it. He tried doing it for me and it was hilarious to watch!

Once he feels comfortable with the ET words, that’s when I introduce him to the reader. We located all the ET words in the reader first. This way, I gave him the phonics background knowledge and support he needed to make his reading time for successful.

 

photo of Review Sight Word Search | This Reading Mama

There are a few activities included to review sight words. He was a bit hesitant to try the sight word search because I made it a little harder. But once he found the first word, he realized he could do it “by myself, mommy.”

 

photo of Build a Sight Word | This Reading Mama

I had the cookie letters out for MBug this week and he wanted to use them to spell his sight words. There weren’t enough letters to spell every word, so we got creative and turned the i upside-down to make an l. 😉

He really loved the Pet Sums activity!

Roll and Add for ET Family | This Reading Mama

I got out these cool, little dice spinners, purchased at the $1 store years ago, and our transparent counters.

 

photo of Roll and Add for ET Family2 | This Reading Mama

He spun the tops, counted the dots, and covered the number.

 

photo of Solving addition problems, counting on fingers | This Reading Mama

He also used his fingers quite a lot. It’s his new fascination. To add up numbers on his fingers. Oh, the look of concentration…I love it!

 

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Enjoy teaching!
~Becky

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Comments

  1. Erin- The Usual Mayhem says

    April 27, 2013 at 8:29 am

    I love the idea of scrambling the word! I do have him unscramble his spelling word on paper, but your approach looks like a lot of fun. I’ll have to give it a try – thanks for sharing!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      April 27, 2013 at 8:35 am

      Thanks, Erin. 🙂

      Reply
  2. wildflowerramblings says

    April 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm

    What an amazing resource and week!! Thanks for sharing such wonderful phonics-based lessons!!

    Reply
    • thisreadingmama says

      April 27, 2013 at 9:33 pm

      Thank you for your encouraging comment. 🙂

      Reply
  3. burginfamilySara says

    May 7, 2017 at 1:02 am

    I got it to work! Than you so much for providing these free!

    Reply

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