Kindergarden Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide

Kindergarten | Unit 2 Assessment and Remediation Guide 71

Focus:
Phonemes
(Blending with
Arm Motions) Teaching Materials

Explicit
Instruction

Objective: State the purpose for listening and model the desired

performance.

Learning about Phonemes: Use samples from a collection of animal words

that will reoccur throughout the activities: dog, sheep, and bee. (The

animal words are selected from the Animal Cards provided in Unit 1 of the

Assessment and Remediation Guide, which can be used to provide visual

support.)

Tell students you will say words broken into sounds and the purpose for

listening is to blend those sounds together to make a word.

Let students know you will focus on using the arm blending motion today.

Ask students to tell you how many sounds the arm blending motion is used

for.

Once the correct answer is given (three), then caution students that one or

two words will only have two sounds and you want them to “catch” those

words.

First model the segmented word dog, saying /d/ /o/ /g/, touching your

shoulder, elbow, and wrist. Follow with the sliding motion from shoulder to

wrist as you say the blended word dog.

Invite students to repeat it with you.

Next demonstrate the segmented word sheep, just as you did with dog.

Then demonstrate the segmented word bee, saying /b/ /ee/, respectively

touching your shoulder and elbow. Follow with the sliding motion from

shoulder to wrist as you say the blended word bee.

If students don’t catch your error, point out that you only had two sounds in

that word and only touched your shoulder and elbow.

Celebrate “catching” the first two-phoneme word!

Animal Word

List (Optional:

Corresponding

Animal Cards

provided in

Assessment and

Remediation,

Unit 1)