After reading and learning with our finger play The Rainbow Ducks have a mini lesson with your students on 'ou' words.
- write the word cloud on your board and show students where it is in the text
- highlight the ou letters and talk about the sound they make together in words like cloud
- brainstorm more words and write these on chart paper or your board
- ask students to write the ou sound for practice - on the carpet, in the air, on whiteboards or on scrap paper
Make a cloud mini book for our words
- students cut their clouds and fold on the tab
- ask students to trace the ou sound in colored markers on each page
- students can complete a word on each cloud by filling in the other letters - using your class collaborative chart for assistance
- gather the clouds together and help students staple their mini book
- ask students to flick through their cloud book reading the ou words
- as an option, students may like to glue some cotton onto the front of their cloud book
- students can play little word work games with their book
- e.g. a simple look, cover, write, check - students look at a page, close their book, write the word on a whiteboard, open their book to check
I would love to share a template for this mini book with you today - you can find it in Google Drive:
And be sure to hop back to our finger play post to get our free finger play - The Rainbow Ducks. They fly up about the clouds, so it makes the perfect literature and language tie in for this activity!