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Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy Unit PlanFree Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy Unit Plan
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Pre-K - 1st
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Unit Plan

Free Reading: "Aliens of Paz" Picture Activity: Oral Segmenting Accuracy

Curated by ACT

An exciting activity that helps pre-readers identify sounds and break down words into segments. The students pretend to be "Aliens of Paz" who pronouce words very slowly. This activity also incorporates movement as the student touches their arm in a different place for each sound.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

blending sounds

Additional Tags

blending game, ending sounds, letter combination sounds, middle sounds of words, oral segmentation of words, reading games, first sounds of words, k.rf.3.2 orally pronounce, blend, and segment words into syllables., oh.ela-literacy.rf.1.2d segment spoken single-syllable words into their complete sequence of individual phonemes., oh.ela-literacy.rf.k.2b count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables in spoken words., pre-reading games, segmenting phonemes

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

Common Core

RF.1.2.d RF.K.2.b RF.1.2.b RF.K.2.c RF.1.2.c RF.1.2.a RF.1.3.d RF.K.3.d RF.K.2.e

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