Activities



Below are activity ideas for small groups divided up into 5 basic groups that are typical of a first grade classroom based on their DRA scores. DRA Ato 4 || phonograms, phonological and phonemic awareness, segmenting and blending sounds, using strategies such as picture clues || building words, flash cards of letter sounds and high frequency words, word building games, rhyming games, sound boxes for blending || independent studies ||
 * Level || Focus || Activities ||
 * Group A
 * Group B DRA 6-10 || Strategies! Listen to self to check for meaning, "cross-checking," emerging fluency || practice! Fill up your "strategies tool box." ||
 * Group C DRA 12-18 || Fluency- WPM, expression, tone || poetry, readers' theater, variety of texts: ficion and non-fiction ||
 * Group D DRA 18-24 || vocabulary, fluency, comprehension || poetry, readers' theater, variety of texts ||
 * Group E DRA 28+ || building independence of reading study and deeper comprehension of books || lit. circles, author studies, chapter book series, AR,

Elkonian Boxes/Sound Boxes
[|Description of Using Elkonian Boxes] [|Step By Step Description of How to Use Elkonian Boxes]

Fluency Building: [|Sing Along Songs] [|Patriotic Songs] [|Improving Fluency] [|Readers Theater Scripts] [|Readers Theater] [|Sight Word Activities] [|Digital Stories]

Sound blending using songs
The following activity (see Yopp, M., 1992) is to the tune of "//If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands//." If you think you know this word, shout it out! If you think you know this word, shout it out! If you think you know this word, Then tell me what you've heard, If you think you know this word, shout it out! After singing, the teacher says a segmented word such as /k/ /a/ /t/ and students provide the blended word "cat." [|More Blending & Segment Games] [|How to Use Sound Boxes] [|Onset/Rime Games]







[|Phonological Awareness.org]