Students discover that letters and their correspondences will lead to successful decoding, reading fluency, and reading comprehension. They recognize the letter u and the correspondence u=/u/. They repeat the tongue twister with the...

Students study the u=/u/ correspondence. They explore words with /u/ in them, read a book focusing on /u/ and complete a worksheet. The Play Around the World with flashcards with /u/ words and words that are not /u/ words on them.

Students work on their sign language skills using yarn balls to tag with and cones for boundaries.

This lesson plan engages students in making short words. Students will regroup the short words into word families and discuss the findings with classmates.