Study guide: Listen, notice print, and tell a little story
With an adult, connect a few sounds to print, retell supplied events, and dictate a matching caption. This is a short supplementary unit.
Ideas to explain in your own words
- Notice when two spoken words begin with the same sound.
- Match the initial sounds /m/ and /s/ to lowercase m and s.
- Retell three supplied story events in order.
- Dictate a sentence that matches a supplied picture description.
Watch your reasoning
- Map begins with the humming /m/ sound. Moon begins with /m/ too. Sun begins with /s/, fish with /f/, and top with /t/.
- Map starts with /m/. Lowercase m represents that sound in map; s, t, and f represent different beginning sounds in these practice words.
- The third and final sentence says Sam carries the cup to the plant. Putting and filling happen earlier; drinking is never stated.
- Jo holds a small red kite in the description. The other captions add a dog, swimming, or a flying kite that the description does not contain.
A worked review example
Listen for a Word’s First Sound: Sun and sock both begin with /s/. Fish begins with /f/, so fish does not belong in this pair. Connect Two Sounds to Two Letters: For sun I hear /s/ first, so I point to s. I do not choose m because /m/ is the humming start of moon. Tell First, Next, and Last: First Sam sets the cup on the table. Next Sam fills it with water. Last Sam carries it to the plant. I kept the order and did not add drinking. Say a Caption an Adult Can Write: I say, “Jo holds a red kite.” My adult writes it. It fits because the description names Jo, holding, and a red kite; it does not put the kite in the sky.
Make a practice plan
- Try the supplied lesson problems without looking at the answers.
- Compare your method with the worked examples and explain any correction.
- Use the new review cases, then complete the transfer task on paper or in your own document.