2. Identify the words you’ll use as examples to teach the target phonics pattern. In the Roll and Read lesson, you could choose batch, scorch, crutch, belch, and pitch.
3. Make a list of your example words on a separate sheet of paper. Think about which words might be new for your students or have multiple meanings.
4. For each of these words, write down a simple sentence that you can use to help students learn the word’s meaning. For example,
I made a batch of cookies.
Don’t scorch the cookies! We don’t want them to taste burnt.
She has to use crutches because she broke her ankle.
The bubbly drink made me belch.
I hope I get to throw a pitch in the baseball game.
5. For one or more of the words, think of a riddle that you could use to encourage your students to think about word meaning. (You would show them all of the words in your set and let them pick the right one.) Here are some examples for the ‘-tch’ lesson:
Which of these words is the name of a stick you use to help you walk?
I’m thinking of a word that means to burp. What word is it?
What do you call it when you throw the baseball from the mound in the center of the field?
Remember, the object of the Riddle Game is not for the students to ‘guess’ the right word, but to locate the answer among the group of words and read it! We want them to associate the visual of the word with its meaning.
